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
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.
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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.
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Ryan Graves
First Uber employee (February 2010), first CEO (May-December 2010), later Chief Operating Officer.
34,000 employees (2025, per Uber Technologies 10-K report)employees
$8.1Btotal funding
IPOlatest round
maturedevelopment stage
Publiclisted
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$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)
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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.
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WayveWayve (UK autonomous driving startup) - Uber's robotaxi tech partner. One of 11+ vendors for Uber Autonomous Solutions.
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BaiduBaidu Apollo - Chinese autonomous driving stack, Uber's partner for robotaxi operations in Asia.
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ToyotaToyota - investor in Uber ATG (self-driving division, sold to Aurora Innovation in January 2021 for $4B equity). Historical autonomous driving partnership.
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.
