Amar Shah

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Amar Shah is the Co-Founder of Wayve, the London-based autonomous driving company most recently valued at $8.6 billion after its February 2026 Series D. He served as Wayve's first CEO from its founding in 2017 through 2020, during which the company emerged from stealth, raised $20 million in Series A from Eclipse Ventures and Balderton Capital, and demonstrated the first end-to-end deep-learning autonomous driving on UK public roads. Wayve has now raised over $2.8 billion and counts SoftBank, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis and Uber among its backers.

After stepping back from day-to-day Wayve leadership in 2020, Amar co-founded CHARM Therapeutics, an AI-driven drug discovery company applying transformer architectures to protein folding for previously undruggable targets, where he serves as Co-founding Advisor. He is also a Founding Partner at Dhyan Ventures and was previously an Entrepreneur in Residence at Firstminute Capital. As an angel investor he has backed roughly 80 companies — about half personally and half through funds — focused on deep tech and moonshot science.

Amar holds a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Cambridge, where he worked with Zoubin Ghahramani and Yoshua Bengio (the 2018 Turing Award winner). He has previously been a Quantitative Strategist at Goldman Sachs and a Machine Learning Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, where his work on the Grand Asteroid Challenge won a Planetary Defense Award and was presented at the White House. His PhD research won the European Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship in 2015 and the EPSRC Doctoral Prize in 2016.