The world's most experienced driver — autonomous ride-hailing at commercial scale
Autonomous📍 Mountain View, CAFounded 2009
Current Valuation
$126B
as of 2026-Q1
CENTURION
Waymo — formerly the Google self-driving car project — operates the world's first commercial autonomous ride-hailing service, with over 20 million paid rides served across Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin. An Alphabet subsidiary, it is the highest-valued autonomous-vehicle company in the world.
Company Profile
CEO
Tekedra Mawakana
Founded
2009
HQ
Mountain View, CA
Employees
~2500
Total Raised
$28B
Growth
Ride volume scaling rapidly across Phoenix, SF, LA, Austin
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
2026 mega-round
$16B
Feb 2026
Dragoneer / DST Global / Sequoia
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Founders & Key People
Sebastian ThrunAnthony LevandowskiChris Urmson
Investors
Alphabet · Dragoneer Investment Group · DST Global · Sequoia Capital · Andreessen Horowitz · Mubadala · Bessemer Venture Partners · Silver Lake · Tiger Global · T. Rowe Price · Fidelity
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2026-Q1. Refreshed quarterly.