Uber
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About
Uber is a ride-hailing and logistics platform founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp in San Francisco 1. The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange in May 2019, raising $8.1 billion at a $45 per share price and an implied valuation of $82.4 billion 2.
Funding History
| Round | Date | Amount | Lead Investor(s) | Key Co-Investors | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Oct 2010 | $1.25M | First Round Capital | Lowercase Capital, Chris Sacca, Founder Collective | — |
| Series A | Feb 2011 | $11M | Benchmark Capital | — | $60M post-money |
| Series B | Dec 2011 | $32M | Menlo Ventures (Shervin Pishevar) | Jeff Bezos, Goldman Sachs, Benchmark | — |
| Series C | Aug 2013 | $258M | Google Ventures, TPG | — | $3.4B pre-money |
| Series D | Jun 2014 | $1.2B | Fidelity, Wellington, BlackRock | Summit Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, Menlo Ventures | $17B pre-money |
| Series E | Dec 2014 | $2.8B | — | Qatar Investment Authority, Baidu, New Enterprise Associates, Lone Pine Capital, Valiant Capital | $40B |
| Series F | Jul 2015 | ~$1B | — | Microsoft, Kingdom Holding Company | ~$50B |
| Series G (initial) | Dec 2015 | $2.1B | — | Tiger Global, T. Rowe Price | $62.5B |
| Series G (PIF) | Jun 2016 | $3.5B | Public Investment Fund (Saudi Arabia) | — | $62.5B |
| Series G (SoftBank) | Jan 2018 | $7B+ | SoftBank Vision Fund | — | — |
| IPO | May 2019 | $8.1B | — | — | $82.4B |
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Sources
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CNN, “Uber’s first investors open up about their wild ride,” May 8, 2019. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/08/tech/uber-first-investors↩↩
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CNN Business, “Uber IPO priced at $45 per share, raising $8.1 billion,” May 9, 2019. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/09/tech/uber-ipo-pricing↩↩
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TechCrunch, “Huge Vote Of Confidence: Uber Raises $11 Million From Benchmark Capital,” February 14, 2011. https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/huge-vote-of-confidence-uber-raises-11-million-from-benchmark-capital/↩
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TechCrunch, “Uber Gets $32M From Menlo Ventures, Jeff Bezos And Goldman Sachs,” December 7, 2011. https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/07/uber-announces-32-million-in-funding/↩
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TechCrunch, “Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever,” August 22, 2013. https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-into-uber-its-largest-deal-ever/↩
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TechCrunch, “Uber Raises Giant $1.2 Billion Funding Round At A $17 Billion Valuation,” June 6, 2014. https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/06/uber-1-2b/↩
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TechCrunch, “Uber’s Series E Round Surges To $2.8 Billion,” February 18, 2015. https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/18/ubers-series-e-round-surges-to-2-2-billion/↩
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TechCrunch, “Uber’s $2.1B Series G Could Give The Company A Post-Money Valuation Of Up To $65B,” December 3, 2015. https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/03/ubers-series-g/↩
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Fortune, “Uber Raises $3.5 Billion From Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund,” June 1, 2016. https://fortune.com/2016/06/01/uber-funding-saudi-arabia/↩
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CNN Business, “SoftBank and Saudi Arabia are two big winners from the Uber IPO,” April 12, 2019. https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/12/tech/uber-ipo-softbank-saudi-arabia↩
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Tracxn, “Uber - 2026 Funding Rounds & List of Investors,” accessed March 2026. https://tracxn.com/d/companies/uber/__wAOgbkstxol2NgmW5SFgVp8zBi7klH1GO5ziIlSERR4/funding-and-investors↩