亚历克斯·肯德尔Alex Kendall

Cambridge PhD who co-founded Wayve in 2017 on a position that was contrarian then and mainstream now: drive with a single end-to-end learned model, no HD maps, no hand-written rule stack, and let the same driver generalise across cities and vehicles. Wayve raised a $1.2B Series D in February 2026 from NVIDIA, Microsoft and Uber at an $8.6B valuation, extended it to $1.5B in April with AMD, Qualcomm and Arm, and for the first time took money directly from carmakers — Mercedes-Benz, Nissan and Stellantis. The Nissan partnership puts its driver assistance into production vehicles from 2027.