Overview
Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American transportation network company founded in March 2009 by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its businesses cover ride-hailing, food delivery (Uber Eats) and freight. The company listed on the New York Stock Exchange on 10 May 2019 under the ticker UBER.
History
Originally named UberCab, the service launched in San Francisco in 2010 and was renamed Uber in 2011; UberX, a cheaper tier, arrived in 2012 and the standalone food delivery app Uber Eats in 2016. In March 2014 Uber announced its entry into mainland China under the Chinese name 优步; on 27 November 2016 the old Uber app stopped providing service in China.
Autonomous driving partnerships
After ending its in-house self-driving development, Uber has connected robotaxi services from partners to its platform: in May 2025 it announced a strategic partnership with Pony AI, whose robotaxi fleet joined the Uber app, and in October 2025 it opened public Robotaxi service with WeRide in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. From 2025 Uber also partnered with Baidu's Apollo Go; on 28 July 2026 Apollo Go began public road tests in London together with Uber and FreeNow, part of Lyft.