Both Cambridge University graduates, Amar received a PhD in machine learning in 2016 while Alex followed a year later with a PhD in deep learning, computer vision, and robotics. They decided to pool their expertise and launched Wayve in 2017. Since Fly invested in Wayve’s Seed Round in 2017, the company has raised a total of USD 258M across its Series A and B, including money from such top-tier investors as Balderton, Eclipse, Baillie Gifford, and Microsoft, as well as prominent business angels Virgin’s Richard Branson, Meta’s Yann LeCunn, and OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever.