Lyft
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Lyft, Inc. is an American transportation network company founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It connects riders and drivers through a mobile app; its shares began trading on Nasdaq on 29 March 2019 (LYFT), and from 2025 it has worked with Baidu's Apollo Go to deploy robotaxi service in Europe.

## Overview

Lyft, Inc. is an American transportation network company founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Through its mobile app it connects riders with drivers for ride-hailing, shared rides, taxis, car rental, bikes and scooters across thousands of cities on several continents.

## Capital and listings

On 28 March 2019 Lyft priced its Class A common stock at US$72.00 per share and the shares began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker LYFT on 29 March. In April 2021 Lyft sold its self-driving division to Toyota for US$550 million and afterwards turned to connecting third-party autonomous fleets to its network.

## Partnership with Baidu's Apollo Go

In August 2025 Baidu announced a partnership with Lyft under which vehicles built by Jiangling Motors would bring Apollo Go service onto the Lyft network in Germany and the United Kingdom from 2026. On 28 July 2026 Apollo Go started public road tests in London with Uber and FreeNow, the mobility platform owned by Lyft.

## Related entries

[Apollo Go](https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/organizations/luobo-kuaipao.html), [Baidu](https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/organizations/baidu.html), [Jiangling Motors](https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/organizations/jiangling-motors.html), [Uber](https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/organizations/uber.html), [San Francisco](https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/san-francisco.html)

Updated: 2026-11-01

Tags:
- Ride-hailing https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/tags/ride-hailing.html
- Autonomous driving https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/tags/autonomous-driving.html

Relations:
- Headquartered in: San Francisco https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/san-francisco.html

Mentioned in:
- Jiangling Motors https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/organizations/jiangling-motors.html
- Apollo Go https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/organizations/luobo-kuaipao.html
- Uber https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/organizations/uber.html
- San Francisco https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/san-francisco.html

Sources:
- Lyft (English Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyft History；English Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-31
- Lyft, Inc. (LYFT) investor relations · company overview https://investor.lyft.com Company Overview
- Lyft Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering https://investor.lyft.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/184/lyft-announces-pricing-of-initial-public-offering
- Apollo Go starts road tests in London (CCTV, auto channel) https://auto.cctv.com/2026/07/29/ARTI8wuRAZ40qSAhMImrpXbl260729.shtml