Mobility startups in San Francisco

Adam Goldstein & Brett Adcock

Founded 2018, HQ Santa Clara with manufacturing in San Jose (South Bay); building the Midnight eVTOL air taxi for urban 'air mobility.' Public via SPAC 2021 (NYSE: ACHR); named official air-taxi provider of ...

Toby Sun & Brad Bao

Founded 2017; the world's largest shared electric-scooter and e-bike micromobility operator across 250+ cities. IPO'd on NASDAQ (LIME) on July 1, 2026 at ~$1.66B valuation after reporting $887M in 2025 reven...

Logan Green & John Zimmer

Founded 2012 (spun out of Zimride); the #2 US ride-hailing network, now adding bikeshare, autonomous partnerships and media. IPO'd March 2019 (NASDAQ: LYFT) just ahead of Uber and posted its first profitable...

Travis Kalanick & Garrett Camp

Founded 2009 as UberCab; the ride-hail pioneer that seeded the global gig-mobility economy and now spans rides, Uber Eats delivery, and freight. IPO'd on NYSE (UBER) in May 2019 and turned its first full-yea...

Jesse Levinson & Tim Kentley-Klay

Founded 2014 in Foster City (South Bay); building a purpose-built, bidirectional autonomous robotaxi with no steering wheel. Acquired by Amazon in 2020 for ~$1.2B; began public robotaxi rides in Las Vegas in...

Dave Ferguson, Jiajun Zhu

Founded 2016 by ex-Waymo engineers, Nuro builds autonomous driving systems, having shifted from its own delivery pods to licensing its 'Nuro Driver' L4 stack. Its 2025 Series E raised ~$203M (Uber, Nvidia) a...

(Alphabet; John Krafcik/Tekedra Mawakana, Dmitri Dolgov)

Alphabet's autonomous-driving unit (spun out of Google's self-driving project, 2016) operates commercial robotaxi service across SF, the Peninsula/Silicon Valley and beyond, including freeways as of late 202...

Andre Haddad

Founded 2010 (as RelayRides); the largest peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace, 'the Airbnb of cars.' Filed to IPO in 2022 but formally withdrew its S-1 in February 2025 amid soft market conditions; remains ...