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Wayve

Wayve develops autonomous driving technology powered by embodied AI foundation models.

LawAdvisor Ventures

LawAdvisor Ventures

LawAdvisor Ventures develops software to streamline legal operations and collaboration.

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Kano

Kano produces buildable and modular educational computers for young learners.


Team

Jordan Chrysafidis

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

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

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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Andrew Macadam

Global Field Lead

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Jason Barnwell

General Manager and Associate General Counsel

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Jon Flynn

Managing Director of Microsoft Sports

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Dominik Wee

Corporate Vice President of Manufacturing and Mobility


Recent investments

Series C
£837M

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."
— Alex Kendall, Co-Founder and CEO
Seed
£4.1M

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"
— Gary Tully
Series B
$200M

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."
— Alex Kendall, Co-Founder and CEO