{"id":562171,"date":"2026-02-03T01:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/562171\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:18:21","slug":"waymo-valued-at-126-billion-in-latest-financing-as-robotaxis-gather-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/562171\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo valued at $126 billion in latest financing as robotaxis gather steam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Feb 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Alphabet unit Waymo said it had raised $16 billion in its latest fundraising round that valued \u200bthe self-driving car startup at $126 billion, nearly tripling its valuation \u200cin less than two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">As one of the most sought-after applications of artificial \u200cintelligence, leading autonomous vehicle companies are investing heavily in commercializing their technology, with a focus on safety and regulatory collaboration to gain market share.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, DST \u2060Global, and Sequoia Capital, \u200cwith additional investments from Mubadala Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and T. Rowe Price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">As of the last external financing \u200din 2024, Waymo was valued at $45 billion, based on data from Tracxn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Waymo, which Alphabet carved out of Google&#8217;s \u200cself-driving \u200ccar project in 2016, is the only \u200boperator in the U.S. offering paid robotaxi services with \u200cno safety drivers or in-vehicle attendants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The company said it tripled its volume to 15 million rides in 2025, providing 400,000 rides weekly across six major U.S. metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">While Waymo remains the leader in the U.S. market, competition is brewing, with Elon Musk&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/TSLA\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tesla;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a> \u2060making robotaxis a core priority for \u200bthe company, pivoting away from electric \u200bvehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Amazon&#8217;s self-driving unit Zoox has also offered free robotaxi rides to the public on and around the Las \u200dVegas Strip and \u2060in parts of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">However, safety concerns linger as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week said it \u2060is opening an investigation after a Waymo self-driving vehicle struck a child near \u200can elementary school in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Ateev Bhandari in \u200cBengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Alphabet unit Waymo said it had raised $16 billion in its latest fundraising round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":562172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[512,245465,64,245466,232019,38761,155355,67,132,68,17228],"class_list":["post-562171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-andreessen-horowitz","tag-applications-of-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-car-startup","tag-dragoneer-investment-group","tag-sequoia-capital","tag-t-rowe-price","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-waymo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116004070143043931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}