Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER) is a global transportation technology company that revolutionized ride hailing with its ride-hailing mobile app. With Uber eats, its food delivery service, Uber has expanded its business into other verticals as well.
Uber Technologies was founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick & Garrett Camp and it is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
The idea of Uber came to Travis Kalanick & Garrett Camp on a cold December evening in Paris, when they could not get a ride. And on March 2009 they developed a smartphone app so that anyone in San Francisco can request a ride through a tap of a button on the app.
Uber became a public company with its initial public offering on May 10, 2019. Uber Technologies became a part of S&P 500 index on 18th December 2023.