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📣 Just announced: We’re thrilled to announce that British Growth Partnership Fund I has achieved a first close at £200 million, with commitments from UK pension funds Aegon UK, NatWest Cushon and M&G. The Fund will make its first investment of £8 million into Wayve, a UK-based autonomous driving company, contributing to the Bank’s £25 million investment announced in February. This is a landmark step in bringing UK pension fund capital into venture – delivered at speed through the British Growth Partnership. This is also the first time that Aegon UK and Cushon have invested in UK venture capital, bringing two of the UK’s pension funds into the asset class. The Fund intends to complete a final close in due course and is continuing discussions with prospective investors. The Bank is also developing further products to support pension funds to access venture capital. Find out more below.

What a fantastic evening we shared yesterday, celebrating Britain’s top tech leaders at The Sunday Times 100 Tech Awards 2026 with partners Singer Capital Markets, BDO and HSBC Innovation Banking. We honoured high-growth companies such as Abound, Zenobē, Fuse Energy, AutogenAI and Draig Therapeutics, who are all shaping the UK economy. Special thanks to Richard Tyler, Hannah Prevett, and our keynote speakers, Alex Kendall, Co-founder and CEO of Wayve and Anahita Laverack, Co-founder and CEO of Oshen, for inspiring insights into autonomous tech. Cheers to continued innovation in British tech!

What will it take to bring autonomy to any vehicle, anywhere? That’s the question I posed at NVIDIA GTC last week and my keynote is now available to watch online. Specifically, how do we move from proving autonomy works to a system that can scale across every city, across any architecture, for any application and level of autonomy? Answering this question requires the industry to make three key shifts: 1. How intelligence is built From AV1.0 modular, hand-engineered stacks or AV1.5 hybrid approaches to AV2.0 end-to-end deep learning models that we’ve proven are better, more generalisable drivers, with a better, more generalisable safety system (this is key - e2e is better for safety too, not just navigation!) 2. How intelligence is deployed From betting on one vehicle and form-factor to delivering a generalisable and hardware-agnostic AI driver, supported by a scalable AI platform purpose-built for AV2.0 3. How the autonomy ecosystem scales From narrow, vertically integrated approaches to integrated platforms across multiple OEMs, vehicle programmes, and commercial robotaxi deployments. While these shifts are contrarian to most of our industry, they have been at the core of Wayve’s approach. We had an end-to-end AI driving demo 5 years ago. What matters now is scaled commercial deployment. This is where Wayve is now focused. We are all in on AV2.0. Watch my full keynote here: https://lnkd.in/edgQVKD6

Excited to be speaking at BrainStation’s Horizons London this Thursday, 26 March. Looking forward to joining a brilliant group of speakers, sharing ideas, and connecting with others across the tech community for an afternoon of insightful talks and networking! If you are in London, get your ticket here: https://lnkd.in/ecNsfU-m #AI #DigitalInnovation #LondonTech #BrainStation

Last one, video #5/5 from our week long showcase! This hour-long, zero-shot video is from Vegas 🇺🇸 , driving up and down the strip during CES. This completes our week showing robust demonstrations of Wayve driving all around the world. Here's autonomous driving in heavy traffic in a new city, without any prior mapping or training data. Vegas has different traffic lights and behaviour compared to other cities in the US, and our AI seamlessly generalises to the environment. This demonstrates how our AV2.0 approach will enable autonomy to reach any vehicle, any where.

Day 4, video #4. This hour-long, zero-shot autonomy video is a route I've done many times. From our London HQ to Heathrow, through central city then out onto the highway. 🇬🇧 Starting in London forced us to build autonomy that could scale. Compared to San Francisco, London has 10x more cyclists, 15x more pedestrians and 20x more roadworks. It is a 2000 year old city you need excellent intelligence to drive through. This is what we've spent the last decade building at Wayve with Embodied AI. Check it out!