The round was co-led by Eclipse, Balderton and SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
"We are making larger investments in high growth companies like Wayve to support the UK’s most promising businesses to start, scale, and stay in the UK."
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Wayve
Wayve develops autonomous driving technology powered by embodied AI foundation models.
LawAdvisor Ventures
LawAdvisor Ventures develops software to streamline legal operations and collaboration.
Kano
Kano produces buildable and modular educational computers for young learners.

Jordan Chrysafidis
General Manager, Worldwide Education Device Sales
Jordan has spent two decades at Microsoft, holding senior sales, marketing, and programme management roles across corporate accounts, original equipment manufacturer partnerships, and education device sales.
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Adris Ahmed
Channel Lead, Device Partner Solution Sales
Adris brings enterprise partnership and channel management experience from various roles at Microsoft. He also serves as a mentor at Microsoft for Startups.
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Amali de Alwis
UK Managing Director, Microsoft for Startups
Amali brings startup, venture capital, and social impact experience from roles including UK Managing Director at Microsoft for Startups and board positions at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and abrdn. She currently serves as an honorary fellow and advisor across technology and sustainability organisations.
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Global Field Lead
Jason Barnwell
General Manager and Associate General Counsel
Jon Flynn
Managing Director of Microsoft Sports
Dominik Wee
Corporate Vice President of Manufacturing and Mobility
The round was co-led by Eclipse, Balderton and SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
"We are making larger investments in high growth companies like Wayve to support the UK’s most promising businesses to start, scale, and stay in the UK."
The financing round was led by SoftBank with participation from NVIDIA and Microsoft to launch embodied AI products for vehicles.
"At Wayve, our vision is to develop autonomous technology that not only becomes a reality in millions of vehicles but also earns people's trust by seamlessly integrating into their everyday lives to unlock extraordinary value. This significant funding milestone highlights our team's unwavering conviction that Embodied AI will address the long-standing challenges the industry has faced in scaling this technology to everyone, everywhere. Our collaboration with SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Microsoft will help advance our mission to redefine driving with AI at the core. This investment will enable us to develop and launch our first Embodied AI products for the automotive industry, empowering OEMs to provide consumers with trustworthy and beneficial automated driving experiences."
The financing round was backed by prominent legal and technology figures including Ralph Baxter.
"the sheer velocity and rate of change facing today’s legal departments has created new challenges requiring new age thinking. LawAdvisor is addressing these challenges with its remarkably innovative tools. Tools that offer organizations the opportunity of achieving operational excellence"
The Series B round was led by Eclipse Ventures with participation from a broad group of global financial and strategic backers.
"We were the first team to develop the scientific breakthroughs in deep learning to build autonomous driving technology that can easily scale to new markets using a data-learned approach. Today, we have all of the pieces in place to take what we have pioneered and drive AV2.0 forward. We have brought together world-class strategic partners in transportation, grocery delivery and compute, along with the best capital resources to scale our core autonomy platform, trial products with our commercial fleet partners, and build the infrastructure to scale AV2.0 globally."
The funding coincides with a worldwide partnership to launch the new buildable Kano PC.
"The Education sector is undergoing massive change enabled by technology, and our collaboration with Kano is truly advancing the vision of “technology for all,”"