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Waymo

Application

Autonomous driving company building self-driving technology and robotaxi service.

Total funding$27.1B

Valuation$126B

Employees2,500

Founded2009

HeadquartersMountain View, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Waymo Driver Platform

  The autonomous driving system — sensors, compute and software — that operates Waymo's vehicles and is the technology deployed with vehicle and fleet partners.

• Waymo for Business Application

  Autonomous ride programme sold to organisations, with a business portal for managing commute programmes, corporate travel, event codes, budgets and member access across five US metros.

• Waymo One Application Sold on its own

  Driverless ride-hailing service booked through the Waymo One app, operating in several US cities.

Closest alternatives 3

TTeslaPublic · $1.4TThe report frames Tesla's robotaxi push directly against Waymo's robotaxi service as the central rivalry in the market; both companies' flagship rider-facing robotaxi products carry drive-autonomously.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeLarger scaleSourced competitorBuild a self-driving systemCompareZZooxPrivate · $990M raisedArticle names Zoox as a new entrant into Waymo's robotaxi market. Waymo One and Zoox both carry drive-autonomously.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeSourced competitorBuild a self-driving systemCompareNNuroPrivate · $6BNuro's own co-founder ranks Nuro's driverless deployment directly against Waymo's in the same TechCrunch interview; both are autonomous-driving platforms on the drive-autonomously need.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeSmaller scaleSourced competitorBuild a self-driving systemCompare

Similar products 12

How this list is ranked ↗

WWaabiPrivate · $1B raisedWaymo Driver and Waabi Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; similar scale (private).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareWWayvePrivate · $8.6BWaymo Driver and Wayve AI Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; smaller scale (private).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareAIApplied IntuitionPrivate · $15BWaymo Driver and Vehicle OS do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeSame scale bandCompareKMKakao MobilityPrivateWaymo One and 카카오모빌리티 자율주행 do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareAAvridePrivateWaymo Driver and Universal Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Avride's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareHRHorizon RoboticsPublic · $8.8BWaymo Driver and Horizon SuperDrive do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; smaller scale (public).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareMMobileyePublicWaymo Driver and SuperVision / Chauffeur do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Mobileye's scale not recorded; ships hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BWaymo Driver and Baidu Apollo Open Platform do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; smaller scale (public).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareNNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TWaymo Driver and NVIDIA DRIVE do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (public).1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAHArm HoldingsPublic · $282.8BWaymo Driver and Arm Zena CSS do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; larger scale (public); ships hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareAIAnduril IndustriesPrivate · $61BWaymo Driver and Fury both serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).Shared product typeSame scale bandCompareHHelsingPrivate · $18BWaymo Driver and CA-1 Europa both serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).Shared product typeSame scale bandCompare

Closest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.

Sources

Total funding

Third-party database · 27 Aug 2026

stockanalysis.com's own cumulative tally across its recorded funding rounds for this company, read 2026-08-27. The individual citation attached to this figure on the page is for the LATEST round only (Waymo announces $16 billion funding round) and does not itself state the cumulative total — flagged and excluded rather than treated as verifying the sum.

Valuation

News reporting · 2 Feb 2026

Waymo announces $16 billion funding round, CNBC, 2026-02-02. post-money valuation of the round dated 2026-02-02. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Employees

News reporting · 26 Jun 2025

Waymo's Self-Driving Future Is Here, Time, 2025-06-26. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Founded

Wikipedia · 11 Sep 2026

Google's self-driving project began Jan 17, 2009; renamed Waymo/spun out of Google-Alphabet Dec 2016.

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