Lyft
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Lyft, Inc. is an American company offering ride-hailing services, motorized scooters, and bicycle-sharing systems in the United States and Canada, and, via its Free Now mobile app, Europe. Lyft is the second-largest ridesharing company in the United States after Uber. It has 25 million active riders and coordinates 9 million rides per day.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Lyft, Inc.
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.industry
- Vehicle for hire
- Company.foundation
- (as Zimride)
- Company.revenue_year
- 2025
- Company.operating_income
- - (2025)
- Company.net_income_year
- 2025
- Company.assets_year
- 2025
- Company.equity_year
- 2025
- Company.num_employees
- 3,913
- Company.num_employees_year
- 2025
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Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Also known as
- Lyft Inc, Lyft, Inc.
- Status
- Active
Wikidata facts
- Revenue
- 700000000
- Official website
- www.lyft.com
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- Commons category
- Lyft
- inception
- 2013-00-00
- social media followers
- 493000
- estimated value
- 5500000000
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Lyft, Inc. is an American company offering ride-hailing services, motorized scooters, and bicycle-sharing systems in the United States and Canada, and, via its Free Now mobile app, Europe. Lyft is the second-largest ridesharing company in the United States after Uber. It has 25 million active riders and coordinates 9 million rides per day.
==History== thumb|Lyft's distinctive pink mustache was the first branding the company used until 2015 when it switched to a smaller, glowing magenta mustache that sits on a driver's dashboard. Lyft was launched in the summer of 2012 by computer programmers Logan Green and John Zimmer as a service of Zimride, a long-distance intercity carpooling company focused on college transport that they founded in 2007 after Green shared rides from the University of California, Santa Barbara campus to visit his girlfriend in Los Angeles and was seeking an easier way to share rides.