Landmark US$85 million employee secondary share transaction for Wayve
July 2026 — Crowdcube, Europe’s largest equity crowdfunding and private market investment platform, has completed a US$85 million employee share sale for Wayve, the first employee liquidity transaction on the LSE’s Private Securities Market and the largest to date under the FCA’s PISCES framework. The deal is a milestone for UK capital markets, demonstrating how new market structures can unlock liquidity for employees and early shareholders in high-growth private companies.
Founded in 2017, Wayve is a UK self-driving company pioneering embodied AI for autonomous driving. The company develops end-to-end AI software that enables vehicles to learn, perceive, understand and navigate complex real-world environments. Wayve’s AV2.0 approach centers on a unified foundation model trained on large-scale, globally diverse data. Unlike traditional rule-based and map-dependent systems, Wayve’s AI Driver is designed to generalize across markets and vehicle platforms without location-specific engineering.
Our role in the transaction
Oaklins Cavendish, one of Oaklins’ member firms in the UK, acted as the Trading Registered Auction Agent to Crowdcube on the transaction.
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