Waymo
Waymo is a Robotaxi / AV company founded in 2009 and based in Mountain View, United States. It is valued at $126B.
Waymo began in 2009 as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, led by Sebastian Thrun and Anthony Levandowski inside Google X, and was spun out as an independent Alphabet subsidiary in December 2016. Owned by Alphabet and run as a standalone company, Waymo operates the most established commercial robotaxi service in the United States, with paid driverless rides across eleven US cities — including Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta, Miami and, since April 2026, Nashville — plus freeway and airport trips. The service delivers roughly 500,000 paid rides per week, with a public target of 1 million weekly rides by the end of 2026, and in June 2026 Waymo introduced a $29.99-per-month Waymo Premier membership. In February 2026 Waymo announced a roughly $16 billion funding round — with Alphabet expected to contribute the large majority — at a valuation reported around $126 billion, to scale its fleet and expand into new US and international markets including London and Tokyo.
Waymo is the clear US robotaxi leader, the first to run paid driverless service at scale across multiple metros and onto freeways.
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