Former Waymo CFO jumps to self-driving startup Wayve

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    "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/16/former-waymo-cfo-jumps-to-self-driving-startup-wayve/",
    "title": "Former Waymo CFO jumps to self-driving startup Wayve",
    "author": "Kirsten Korosec",
    "excerpt": "Elisa de Martel, who was chief financial officer at Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle company Waymo, has been hired to the same position at buzzy self-driving vehicle startup Wayve. Outgoing CFO Max Warburton, who held the position at Wayve since 2024, is moving into a strategic advisory role supporting the company’s leadership team. Her appointment as CFO comes as Wayve moves from development and testing to a company on the verge of deploying its automated driving technology on two fronts: robotaxis and passenger vehicles. De Martel, who will be based out of Sunnyvale, California, has a history of working for tech companies, including as CFO at industrial-grade 3D printing company Carbon and an 11-year stint as manufacturing finance director at Apple. She was CFO at Waymo from 2022 to January 2026 - a critical period for the company as it began to commercially operate in several cities and raised $5.6 billion in a Series C fundraising round that was led by its parent company and pushed its valuation to more than $45 billion. Wayve now sits in a similarly pivotal moment. The startup, which was founded in 2017 and is now valued at about $8.5 billion, attracted investors and automotive customers for its self-learning approach to its automated driving software. The company developed a software layer using an end-to-end neural network that doesn’t rely on high-definition maps, custom...",
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