Professor Karen Leeder awarded 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize

Wayve is one of the UK’s most valuable deep tech startups, backed by more than $1 billion in funding.  Alex Kendall co-founded the company in 2017 following his PhD at the University of Cambridge, where he pioneered a contrarian approach to self-driving cars.  At a time when the industry relied heavily on rule-based systems, maps and multiple sensors, he proposed a different vision powered by deep