Overview
- Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global, and Sequoia Capital led the round, joined by investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Mubadala Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake, Tiger Global, and T. Rowe Price.
- Waymo plans launches in more than 20 additional cities in 2026, naming Tokyo and London, with cars already testing in the UK capital and recent U.S. additions such as Miami and service to San Francisco International Airport.
- The company reports 15 million rides in 2025 and roughly 400,000 weekly trips across six U.S. metros, with 127 million autonomous miles to date and a claimed 90% reduction in serious injury crashes versus human drivers.
- Regulators are scrutinizing safety after the NHTSA opened a probe following a Waymo vehicle striking a child in California, and the company issued a voluntary software update for over 3,000 vehicles after incidents involving school buses in Texas.
- Competition is intensifying as Tesla rolls out robotaxi services in several U.S. cities and Amazon-backed Zoox offers free rides in Las Vegas and parts of San Francisco.