--- title: Wayve raises $1.5 Billion in Series D to scale its... description: London-based autonomous driving startup Wayve has closed a $1.5 billion Series D funding round, raising its valuation to approximately $8.6 billion. The round... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/wayve-raises-1-5-billion-in-series-d-to-scale-its-autonomous-driving-ai-rrcgbobop twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Wayve raises $1.5 Billion in Series D to scale its autonomous driving AI | daily.dev og:description: London-based autonomous driving startup Wayve has closed a $1.5 billion Series D funding round, raising its valuation to approximately $8.6 billion. The round... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/wayve-raises-1-5-billion-in-series-d-to-scale-its-autonomous-driving-ai-rrcgbobop og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RrCgbOBOP.png og:image:alt: Wayve raises $1.5 Billion in Series D to scale its autonomous driving AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Wayve raises $1.5 Billion in Series D to scale its autonomous driving AI **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary London-based autonomous driving startup Wayve has closed a $1.5 billion Series D funding round, raising its valuation to approximately $8.6 billion. The round was led by Eclipse, Balderton, and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with strategic backing from Microsoft, NVIDIA, Uber, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Stellantis. Founded in 2017 by Cambridge researchers, Wayve differentiates itself with an 'embodied AI' approach that learns from driving data and generalizes across cities without extensive local tuning — tested in over 500 cities in 2025. The capital will fund commercial robotaxi trials with Uber in London this year, international expansion to 10+ markets in 2026, and supervised autonomy software for consumer vehicles starting in 2027 via partnerships like Nissan. Rather than building its own fleet, Wayve licenses adaptable AI software to partners. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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