Microsoft-Backed Self-Driving Startup Wayve Expands to Vancouver
- British company opening research-focused office in Canada
- Wayve’s investors include venture capital and AI heavyweights
A Wayve Technologies self-driving car.
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British autonomous-driving startup Wayve Technologies Ltd. is opening a research center in Vancouver, adding its second location in North America to accelerate its growth.
The company’s chief scientist Jamie Shotton, who previously helped to develop Microsoft Corp.’s body-tracking tool Kinect, will move from the UK to lead the R&D-focused office, Wayve’s third location after London and Mountain View, California.