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As of February 2, 2026, Waymo was last valued at $126B (February 2026 funding round) and has raised at least $16B in equity across 1 sourced funding round.
Alphabet's autonomous ride-hailing company, valued at $126B after the largest capital raise in AV history and expanding to 20+ cities.
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Waymo is a robotics company, based in Mountain View, California, USA, founded 2016 by Sebastian Thrun, Anthony Levandowski.
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2026 | Funding round | $16B | $126Bpost-money | Waymo | |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Series Cnot counted: no linked source | $5.6B | $45Bpost-money | — | Value Add Pulse research |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Funding roundnot counted: no linked source | $2.5B | — | — | Value Add Pulse research |
Equity only. “Equity raised” above sums the rounds with a dated, linked source; rumored rounds, tender offers and secondary sales are listed but not counted, and debt financing is listed separately.
| Date | Event | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 2026 | Debt | $5B | $126B | BlackstoneLeadunverifiedSixth StreetunverifiedCapital GroupunverifiedT. Rowe PriceunverifiedApollo Global ManagementunverifiedBlue Owl CapitalunverifiedFranklin TempletonunverifiedFidelity InvestmentsunverifiedPIMCOLoomis SaylesDiameter Capital PartnersHPS Investment Partners | TechCrunch |
Waymo secured its first-ever debt financing -- a $5 billion loan led by Goldman Sachs with PIMCO, Blackstone and Sixth Street -- to fund robotaxi expansion beyond its 15 current markets without diluting equity holders.
California's new SB 1246 forces Waymo, Tesla and Zoox to provide local incident response when robotaxis block traffic or emergency responders, starting July 2028.
Alphabet's Waymo will launch a robotaxi service in Singapore by 2028, its first market in Southeast Asia after a Tokyo push, bringing electric Jaguar I-Pace vehicles into direct competition with China's WeRide and Pony AI.
Waymo began inviting public riders in Las Vegas on September 14, its 15th commercial robotaxi market, deploying dozens of new Ojai minivans on the Strip after Nevada approved up to 1,000 vehicles.
Lyft began dispatching Waymo robotaxis in Nashville, its first commercial fully driverless service, with its Flexdrive subsidiary running depots, maintenance and fleet operations for the vehicles.
Uber put $100 million into Atoms and builds nothing itself, while Atoms, Waymo and Tesla carry the full capital and safety burden of running actual fleets -- that asymmetry is the whole argument.
Tesla began carrying paying riders in its wheel-free Cybercab days after a federal safety audit opened, Elon Musk skipped the launch, and rivals Waymo and Zoox used the same week to expand their own robotaxi footprints.
Waymo argued publicly that Tesla's camera-only approach to self-driving isn't safe enough, kicking off a weekend social-media fight just a week before Tesla is set to formally launch its two-seat Cybercab.
Waymo and Amazon's Zoox both expanded into new US cities this week, intensifying a robotaxi race defined by Waymo's scale advantage and Zoox's still-supervised test rollout.
Waymo's co-CEO argued cameras alone hit a safety ceiling well short of full autonomy, an implicit rebuke of Tesla's camera-only approach as both companies race to scale robotaxis.
Waymo confirmed Munich as its first European robotaxi market, targeting a public driverless launch by the end of 2027 after phased mapping and supervised testing, pending a permit from Germany's federal motor authority.
Nevada regulators approved permits letting Tesla, Uber and Waymo deploy up to 8,000 robotaxis combined across Las Vegas and Clark County over the next 12 months.
Waymo was last valued at $126B in its February 2026 funding round, according to Waymo (February 2, 2026).
Waymo has raised at least $16B in equity across 1 sourced funding round tracked by Value Add VC. The most recent was a $16B funding round in February 2026 at a $126B post-money valuation, reported by Waymo. Debt financing, tender offers and secondary sales are not counted.
Lead investors in Waymo's sourced funding rounds include Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global and Sequoia Capital. Per round: its February 2026 funding round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global and Sequoia Capital.
Waymo was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, according to Wikidata.
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