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Uber

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Uber Technologies, Inc.
Big TechPlatform company
Uber TechnologiesUber Technologies Inc.Ubercab (2009-2011)

American multinational transportation company from San Francisco. Largest global ridesharing operator (70 countries, 10,500 cities, 202M MAU, 42M trips/day). Founded 2009 by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick. NYSE:UBER since May 2019. Revenue $52B (2025). Key player in the robotaxi race - Feb 2026 Autonomous Solutions division, partnerships with Lucid/Nuro/Baidu/NVIDIA/Rivian.

Founded2009United States
HQSan FranciscoUnited States
Total funding$8100000B1 · 2019
Valuation~$200B (market cap, end 2025)🦄Market capitalization · 2025
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01 · About

Uber

Founded 2009 · San Francisco, United States

Founders

  • Garrett Camp

    Co-founder. Previously co-founder of StumbleUpon. Came up with the Uber idea after spending $800 on a private driver on New Year's Eve and being inspired by difficulty finding a taxi on a snowy Paris night (2008).

    Canadian entrepreneur, previously StumbleUpon (acquired by Uber). Uber's mobile app prototype was built with Oscar Salazar and Conrad Whelan.

  • Travis Kalanick

    Co-founder. Former CEO of Uber (December 2010 - August 2017). Departed after a series of controversies: 2017 sexual harassment scandal, Greyball, and others. Later founded City Storage Systems / CloudKitchens.

    A controversial figure. Uber's first phase (2010-2017) is regarded as a period of aggressive growth through violation of local regulations followed by lobbying to change them.

  • Ryan Graves

    First Uber employee (February 2010), first CEO (May-December 2010), later Chief Operating Officer.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

3 areas · 5 technologies · 3 industries
What they do3Areas
  • Autonomous systems
  • AI platforms
  • Process automation
How they do it5Technologies
  • Foundation Models
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Multimodal AI
  • MLOps
  • Computer vision
Who for3Industries
  • Logistics & warehousing
  • Retail
  • Automotive
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ San Francisco · 2 offices · 8 regions
GlobalNorth AmericaEuropeAsiaSouth AmericaMiddle EastAfricaAustralia & Oceania
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2009 · IPO
2009founded
34,000 employees (2025, per Uber Technologies 10-K report)employees
$8.1Btotal funding
IPOlatest round
maturedevelopment stage
Publiclisted
activestatus
$8.1B
total funding
1 · 2019
IPOMay 2019Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, BofA Merrill LynchIPO on NYSE May 10, 2019 under ticker UBER. Priced at $45 per share, valuation ~$82B (lower than expected $100B+). At the time the largest tech IPO since Alibaba 2014.
$8.1B (IPO, May 2019)
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

6 strategic relations · 5 brands · 1 subsidiaries

Strategic relations

6
  • Partnership
    NVIDIAMarch 2026: Uber signed a partnership with NVIDIA to use NVIDIA Drive software in its robotaxi fleet. A key tech partnership for the Uber Autonomous Solutions division.
  • Partnership
    WayveWayve (UK autonomous driving startup) - Uber's robotaxi tech partner. One of 11+ vendors for Uber Autonomous Solutions.
  • Partnership
    BaiduBaidu Apollo - Chinese autonomous driving stack, Uber's partner for robotaxi operations in Asia.
  • Partnership
    ToyotaToyota - investor in Uber ATG (self-driving division, sold to Aurora Innovation in January 2021 for $4B equity). Historical autonomous driving partnership.
  • Acquisition
    Uber has acquired numerous companies: Ottomotto (2016, self-driving trucks, $625M), Geometric Intelligence (2016, Uber AI research), Careem (2020, $3.1B, Middle East ride-hailing), Postmates (2020, $2.65B), Drizly (2021, $1.1B, alcohol delivery, closed 2024), Cornershop (2019+2021, grocery LATAM), Trendyol Go (2025, $700M), DanTaxi (2025), SpotHero (February 2026, parking).
  • Investment
    March 2026: Uber announced up to $1.25B investment in Rivian as part of a deal to deploy up to 50,000 robotaxis through 2031. Earlier: July 2025, $300M+ in Lucid Motors + Nuro.
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 8 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagemature
  • Listed onYesNYSE:UBER
  • Organization typeBig Tech+ Platform company

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