Vay alternatives

Vay's answer to the driverless question is a person, just not one sitting in the car. Founded in Berlin in September 2018, with further offices in Hamburg and Las Vegas, the company stations trained remote drivers at teledrive facilities to operate vehicles on real streets, which lets it offer driverless rentals in Las Vegas today alongside B2B mobility partnerships in Europe and the United States. Its record counts €195M raised over five rounds, including €34M of EIB venture debt in October 2024 and Grab's US$60M investment in November 2025. The alternatives relocate the work instead. VI-grade, founded in Italy in 2005 and now part of HBK, removes the physical car: its simulation software and driving simulators let OEMs, suppliers, research centres and universities develop vehicles virtually under a zero-prototypes banner. Vueron Technology, a Seoul company founded in 2019 with KRW 33B raised, builds the LiDAR perception layer for autonomous driving, ADAS, smart cities and industrial sites. Waabi runs one Physical AI model as a shared brain for self-driving trucks and robotaxis from Toronto, including Texas freight operations, after roughly US$1.03B of rounds. Wayve, London-founded in 2017, trains a general driving intelligence from data rather than high-definition maps or hand-coded rules, backed by a 2024 Series C above US$1B and testing across three continents. Choose Vay when the service must run now with human judgement in the loop; VI-grade when development cost sits in prototypes; Vueron for sensing; Waabi for freight autonomy; and Wayve for a map-light learned stack.

Alternatives to Vay

VI-grade

VI-grade is an Italian-founded provider of vehicle simulation software and professional driving simulators, founded in October 2005 and now part of HBK, used by automakers, suppliers, research centres, motorsport teams and universities to develop vehicles virtually under its "Smart Testing" and "zero prototypes" approach.

Vueron Technology

Vueron Technology is a South Korean company that calls itself an Autonomous AI Foundry, building LiDAR-based solutions for autonomous driving, ADAS and smart cities.

Waabi

Waabi is a Canadian Physical AI company pioneering self-driving trucks and robotaxis. Its revolutionary Physical AI Platform is built around a single AI model acting as a shared brain for both autonomous trucks and robotaxis, which the company says enables true scale by generalising across different form factors, geographies and environments for the first time.

Wayve

Wayve is a United Kingdom company building embodied AI for driving: a general-purpose driving intelligence that learns from data rather than relying on high-definition maps or hand-coded rules, and that is designed to scale across vehicles, geographies and applications.

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