Lyft
Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) is a publicly traded Fleet, Logistics & MaaS company founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, United States.
Lyft was founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer as a service of their carpooling company Zimride, took the Lyft name in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco. It operates peer-to-peer ridesharing alongside taxis, private-hire vehicles, executive chauffeur services, car sharing, bikes and scooters, and it earns revenue from rides, Lyft Business programs, subscriptions, licensing and advertising. Lyft listed on Nasdaq in March 2019 under the ticker LYFT. On July 31, 2025 it closed its purchase of Freenow, a European multimodal app built around taxis, for about €206 million, and on Oct. 14, 2025 it bought TBR Global Chauffeuring for £86.4 million. In Q2 2026 Lyft reported revenue of $1.84 billion, up 16%, gross bookings of $5.50 billion, net income of $50.3 million and free cash flow of $319.6 million, and at June 30, 2026 it held $1.14 billion in cash and cash equivalents plus $657 million in short-term investments.
Lyft completed 262.4 million rides in Q2 2026, up 12% year on year, for 30.5 million active riders, up 17%. In June 2026 it began fleet operations in Nashville in partnership with Waymo, with an 80,000-square-foot autonomous-vehicle depot there scheduled to open in October 2026. From Sept. 30, 2026 its North American riders could use the Lyft app in European cities from Barcelona to Warsaw, which adds ride demand for drivers on its Freenow and Gett platforms.
At a glance
Total raised
Undisclosed
Headcount
1k-5k
Headquarters
San Francisco
United StatesFounded
2012
Status
Public
Subsector
Mobility, ranked
Top 25 Mobility companies →Funding history
Total raised
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Rounds tracked
0
No dated funding rounds on file. This company is privately held and may be raising or operating on undisclosed capital.
