Waymo

• Operating use

  2026-09-24 - Waymo reports more than 270 million fully autonomous miles through June 2026 across five metropolitan service areas. - Waymo Driver, five major U.S. metropolitan areas

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Supply chain relationships

• TSMC

  Inbound - Manufacturing - TSMC supplies semiconductor fabrication services for Waymo autonomous-driving compute system

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• NVIDIA

  Inbound - Components - NVIDIA supplies NVIDIA compute technology for Waymo autonomous-driving compute system

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• Samsung Electronics

  Inbound - Components - Samsung Electronics supplies Samsung semiconductor technology for Waymo autonomous-driving compute system

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• Advanced Micro Devices

  Inbound - Components - Advanced Micro Devices supplies AMD compute technology for Waymo autonomous-driving compute system

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• Micron Technology

  Inbound - Components - Micron Technology supplies Micron memory technology for Waymo autonomous-driving compute system

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• Magna

  Inbound - Manufacturing Services - Magna integrates Waymo Driver systems and assembles Waymo fleet vehicles at its Mesa facility

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• Hyundai Motor Company

  Outbound - Software - Waymo supplies Waymo Driver autonomous-driving system for Hyundai IONIQ 5 vehicles for Waymo One

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• DoorDash

  Outbound - Autonomous Service - Waymo supplies Waymo autonomous-delivery service for DoorDash Metro Phoenix delivery programme

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• 2026-02-02 - Investment round - $16B - Waymo raises $16 billion investment round at $126 billion valuation

  valuation: $126B - Waymo raised a $16 billion investment round at a $126 billion post-money valuation after reporting major growth in rides and fully autonomous miles. - source: waymo.com

• 2024-10-25 - Investment round - $5.6B - Waymo closes $5.6 billion investment round

  Waymo closed an oversubscribed $5.6 billion investment round led by Alphabet to expand Waymo One and advance the Waymo Driver. - source: waymo.com

• 2021-06-16 - Investment round - $2.5B - Waymo raises $2.5 billion investment round

  Waymo raised $2.5 billion to advance and commercialize the Waymo Driver and expand its team. - source: waymo.com

• 2020-07-30 - Investment round - $3.2B - Waymo completes $3.2B first external round after ~$30B initial-close valuation

  valuation: $30B - Waymo completed its first external investment round at $3.2 billion after an initial $2.25 billion close. - source: waymo.com

• Andreessen Horowitz - Participant - Angel / Individual - 4 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2020-07-30 - latest 2026-02-02
• Silver Lake - Lead - Investment Firm - 4 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2020-07-30 - latest 2026-02-02
• Alphabet - Lead - Corporate / CVC - 3 funding events - repeat backer - strategic/corporate - first seen 2020-07-30 - latest 2024-10-25
• Tiger Global - Participant - VC - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-06-16 - latest 2026-02-02
• AutoNation - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2020-07-30 - latest 2021-06-16
• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2020-07-30 - latest 2021-06-16
• Fidelity Management & Research Company - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-06-16 - latest 2026-02-02
• Magna International - Participant - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2020-07-30 - latest 2021-06-16
• Mubadala Investment Company - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2020-07-30 - latest 2021-06-16
• Perry Creek Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-06-16 - latest 2026-02-02
• T. Rowe Price - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-10-25 - latest 2026-02-02
• Temasek - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-06-16 - latest 2026-02-02
• BDT & MSD Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-02
• Bessemer Venture Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-02
• CapitalG - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-02-02
• Dragoneer Investment Group - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-02
• DST Global - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-02
• Fidelity - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-10-25
• GV - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-02
• Kleiner Perkins - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-02
• Mubadala Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-02
• Perry Creek - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-10-25
• Sequoia Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-02
• T. Rowe Price Associates - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-06-16

• Becky Bucich - Chief People Officer - Supports organisational scale across Waymo engineering and fleet operations.
• Steve Fieler - Chief Financial Officer - Owns financial planning for commercial autonomous-driving scale.
• Amar Mehta - Chief Legal Officer - Owns legal and regulatory execution for autonomous-driving operations.
• Ryan McNamara - Vice President, Operations - Leads the operating layer behind the commercial autonomous fleet.
• Mauricio Peña - Chief Safety Officer - Owns safety governance and evidence for Waymo Driver deployment.
• Tekedra Mawakana - Co-Chief Executive Officer - Co-leads Waymo?s autonomous driving technology business and go-to-market expansion.
• Srikanth Thirumalai - Vice President, Onboard Software - Leads software running on the Waymo Driver platform.
• Dmitri Dolgov - Co-Chief Executive Officer - Co-leads Waymo?s company strategy with focus on development and deployment of the Waymo Driver.
• Satish Jeyachandran - Vice President, Engineering - Leads engineering work for Waymo?s autonomous driving hardware and vehicle-platform integration.
• Saswat Panigrahi - Chief Product Officer - Leads product direction for Waymo?s autonomous ride-hailing and driver technology offerings.

Events

• 2026-10-20 - Market Signal - Waymo plans Madrid rider service for 2027

  Electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will first conduct manual driving before validation with trained local autonomous specialists. The company is engaging national, regional and local authorities and familiarising emergency services with its technology. Local partnerships and operating investment will precede the planned rider service.

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• 2026-10-16 - Deployment - Waymo targets first Toronto robotaxi riders in 2028 with Element fleet support

  Manual driving is due to begin in the following days; the announcement is not a launch of driverless passenger service. Element will provide end-to-end fleet management, extending the companies’ existing partnership to Toronto. Facilities and hundreds of operational roles are planned over time; the release gives no committed passenger-service fleet count.

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• 2026-10-14 - Deployment - Waymo expands public access and adds San Antonio airport rides

  Anyone can download the Waymo app and request a ride in the three cities. The cities’ services had already carried hundreds of thousands of riders since opening earlier in the year. San Antonio International Airport trips add a new airport option for local riders and visitors.

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• 2026-10-08 - Market Signal - Waymo closes its first debt financing with a $5 billion term loan

  PIMCO, Blackstone and Sixth Street are lead syndicated lenders; Capital Group, Loomis Sayles and T. Rowe Price are significant lenders. Goldman Sachs served as sole lead bookrunner. The loan follows a $16 billion equity investment earlier in 2026 and the launch of service in Waymo's fifteenth U.S. city in September.

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• 2026-10-06 - Production Milestone - Waymo ramps production and road testing of silver Ojai vehicles

  Rides in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas are planned in the coming weeks, with more cities to follow. The version adds leatherette upholstery, redesigned seats, rear armrests and wireless charging.

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• 2026-09-24 - Capability - Waymo updates safety analysis to 270M fully autonomous miles

  Waymo reports 82% fewer injury-causing crashes than its matched human-driver benchmark across Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco. It reports 95% fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes, measured regardless of fault. The analysis estimates 841 fewer injury-causing crashes than the human benchmark over the covered mileage.

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• 2026-09-18 - Market Signal - Hyundai could start October production of Waymo IONIQ 5 robotaxis

  Production would take place at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Georgia, where IONIQ 5 vehicles for Waymo are assembled. Hyundai has publicly said the first IONIQ 5 Waymo robotaxis are scheduled for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2026. The vehicles are planned for integration with Waymo’s autonomous technology before joining the Waymo One fleet.

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• 2026-09-17 - Market Signal - Waymo targets 2028 commercial robotaxi launch in Singapore

  Waymo expects its initial Jaguar I-PACE fleet to arrive in Singapore over the coming months as local operations are established. Trained autonomous specialists are scheduled to conduct manual driving in 2027 to adapt the Waymo Driver to local roads and monsoon conditions. The plan is being developed with Singapore’s Ministry of Transport and Land Transport Authority and remains subject to regulatory approvals.

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• 2026-09-15 - Partnership - Waymo partners with Allianz Partners for European robotaxi insurance

  Allianz Partners will develop tailored fleet and liability coverage for autonomous vehicles. The companies will collaborate with the Allianz Center for Technology on crash analysis, safety modelling and risk evaluation. Vehicle-recovery services are an area they may explore later, not a committed deployment.

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• 2026-09-14 - Partnership - Waymo, GO and Nihon Kotsu formalize a 2027 Tokyo robotaxi launch

  The service is planned to start with a small fleet and scale toward roughly 100 vehicles across key Tokyo neighbourhoods. Customers are expected to request rides through both the GO and Waymo applications. The agreement advances supervised Tokyo testing into commercial launch preparation.

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• 2026-09-14 - Deployment - Waymo opens fully autonomous rides to the Las Vegas public

  More than 100,000 people registered interest before public access began. The service covers a nearly 24-square-mile area spanning the Strip and surrounding neighbourhoods. Las Vegas joins Denver and San Diego as an early market using a majority fleet of Ojai vehicles with the sixth-generation Waymo Driver.

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• 2026-09-09 - Deployment - Lyft launches fully autonomous Waymo rides in Nashville

  Eligible trips include Standard, Priority Pickup, Wait & Save and Extra Comfort rides that start and end in the central Nashville service area. Lyft and Waymo dynamically dispatch vehicles from one fleet across both apps, with availability planned to increase over the following weeks. The service area covers Downtown/Broadway, North Nashville/Germantown, East Nashville, Midtown and South Nashville.

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• 2026-09-01 - Deployment - Waymo opens fully autonomous rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa

  The three additions take Waymo to 14 cities offering fully autonomous trips. Tens of thousands of people in each city had joined the local interest lists before launch. The service uses Waymo newest vehicle platform and next-generation Waymo Driver, with access broadening over time rather than opening to every rider immediately.

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• 2026-08-25 - Market Signal - Waymo selects Munich for planned German robotaxi launch

  Manual high-definition mapping is scheduled to begin in the coming weeks. Autonomous testing with trained specialists behind the wheel will follow the mapping phase. Waymo is planning local fleet operations and regulatory engagement; the announcement does not represent a live driverless deployment.

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• 2026-08-20 - Capability - Waymo details custom 5nm ASIC and autonomous-compute partner stack

  The custom ASIC provides more than 1,000 TOPS for front-end sensor processing and machine-learning workloads. Waymo says its onboard compute performance has increased 20-fold in eight years and processes 13 high-resolution cameras in real time.

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• 2026-08-14 - Regulatory - Waymo receives California authority for wider robotaxi service area

  The permitted geography could support routes from Silicon Valley to Bodega Bay and north-coast communities, as well as travel through the Napa and Alexander valleys. Waymo said it has no immediate launch dates for the newly authorised areas and will share plans with residents and local officials as operations scale. The company separately plans to launch passenger service in San Diego later this summer while continuing technology validation in Sacramento.

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• 2026-08-06 - Facility Opening - Waymo leases third Washington, D.C. operations site

  The newly leased site will support electric-vehicle charging and maintenance, adding to two other local facilities in Waymo's planned operating footprint. A separate 32,000-square-foot service facility is already under construction, and Waymo estimates its anticipated District infrastructure investment at tens of millions of dollars. Waymo says an approved commercial service would support hundreds of local jobs, but driverless passenger operations remain dependent on District legislation.

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• 2026-06-25 - Deployment - Waymo begins resuming freeway operations after construction-zone software remedy

  Waymo began updating affected fifth-generation automated driving systems on 16 June and started resuming freeway operations on 25 June. The remedy improves construction-zone recognition, hazard prioritisation and speed reduction, alongside operational and Remote Assistance changes. By 29 June, all vehicles capable of driverless operation had received the remedy software.

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• 2026-06-15 - Partnership - Waymo selects Element for autonomous fleet services

  Element will provide fleet-management and operational support. The multi-year agreement begins with Waymo operations in San Diego. Expansion to other markets remains prospective.

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• 2026-02-02 - Funding - Waymo raises $16 billion investment round at $126 billion valuation

  The financing was led by Dragoneer, DST Global and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Mubadala and other investors. Waymo reported 127 million fully autonomous miles, 20 million lifetime rides and more than 400,000 rides provided each week. The company said the capital would support global scale, fleet expansion and operations in more cities across the U.S. and internationally.

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• 2024-10-25 - Funding - Waymo closes $5.6 billion investment round

  The $5.6 billion round closed on 25 October 2024, with Alphabet leading and Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Perry Creek, Silver Lake, Tiger Global and T. Rowe Price continuing as investors. Proceeds were earmarked for serving more Waymo One riders in San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles, plus Austin and Atlanta through the expanded Uber partnership. The company also linked the financing to continued development of the Waymo Driver and its cost-optimized sixth-generation autonomous-driving system.

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• 2022-12-16 - Deployment - Waymo opens 24/7 rider-only airport service in Phoenix

  Waymo opened fully autonomous rides between Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and Downtown Phoenix to members of the public. The company described the airport route as a round-the-clock service with no human driver at the 44th Street and Washington PHX Sky Train Station. Waymo also expanded public rider-only service areas in San Francisco and Phoenix, saying it was operating 24/7 in multiple metro areas.

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• 2021-06-16 - Funding - Waymo raises $2.5 billion investment round

  Participants included Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, AutoNation, CPP Investments, Fidelity, Magna, Mubadala, Perry Creek, Silver Lake, T. Rowe Price, Temasek and Tiger Global. Waymo said the capital would support continued development and commercialization of the Waymo Driver across ride-hailing, delivery, freight and personal-mobility applications.

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• 2020-07-30 - Funding - Waymo completes $3.2B first external round after ~$30B initial-close valuation

  Reporting around the March 2020 initial close placed Waymo's valuation at about $30 billion. Silver Lake, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Mubadala led the initial close, with Magna, Andreessen Horowitz, AutoNation and Alphabet also participating. Waymo expanded the same round—not a separate financing—to a final $3.2 billion total by July 30, 2020.

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Profile notes

• Waymo remote assistance advises the driving system rather than driving the vehicle

  reviewed 2026-07-19 - Waymo's remote-assistance agents provide contextual advice when the autonomous system asks for help. They do not continuously monitor each vehicle or directly operate its steering, acceleration or braking.

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Relationships

• Lyft

  Technology Partner - Lyft distributes fully autonomous Waymo rides through its Nashville app and dispatch network.

• Element Fleet Management

  Qualified Robotics Graph Fact - Waymo selected Element Mobility for multi-year fleet-management and operational services, beginning with autonomous-vehicle operations in San Diego.

• Moove

  Autonomous Fleet Operations Partner - Moove operates Waymo autonomous fleets and supporting depot infrastructure in live and planned markets.

• Allianz Partners

  European Fleet Insurance And Claims Partner - Waymo and Allianz Partners are building insurance, claims and safety-research infrastructure for Waymo’s planned European robotaxi fleets.

• Advanced Micro Devices

  Autonomous Compute Partnership - Waymo names AMD among the computing partners supporting development of its autonomous driving compute system.

• DoorDash

  Autonomous Delivery Network Partnership - Waymo and DoorDash partner on autonomous delivery of eligible DoorDash orders in Metro Phoenix.

• Toyota Motor Corporation

  Autonomous Platform Exploration Agreement - Waymo and Toyota reached a preliminary agreement to explore a new autonomous vehicle platform and personally owned vehicle applications.

• Hyundai Motor Company

  Autonomous Vehicle Platform Partnership - Waymo and Hyundai Motor Company have a multi-year partnership to integrate the Waymo Driver into Hyundai IONIQ 5 vehicles for Waymo One.

• Uber

  Autonomous Ride Hail Network Partnership - Waymo and Uber partner to offer Waymo autonomous rides through Uber in Austin and Atlanta, with Uber managing local fleets.

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Context tags

• Autonomous-driving technology stack - Stack Layer - Profile QA supports Autonomous driving stack.
• Robotaxi operator - Peer Group - Waymo operates a public fully autonomous ride-hailing service that riders hail through the Waymo app. https://waymo.com/faq/
• Autonomous vehicle driving - Workflow - Profile QA supports Autonomous vehicle driving.