{"id":989454,"date":"2026-02-03T07:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989454"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:44:24","slug":"waymo-valued-at-126-billion-in-latest-16-billion-financing-as-robotaxis-gather-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/waymo-valued-at-126-billion-in-latest-16-billion-financing-as-robotaxis-gather-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo valued at $126 billion in latest $16 billion financing as robotaxis gather steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet unit Waymo said it had \u200draised $16 billion in its latest fundraising round that valued the self-driving car \u2060startup at $126 billion, nearly tripling its valuation in less than two years. <\/p>\n<p>As one of the most sought-after applications of artificial intelligence, leading \u200cautonomous vehicle \u200ccompanies are investing heavily in commercializing their technology, with a focus on safety \u200cand regulatory collaboration to gain market share. <\/p>\n<p>The round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global, and Sequoia Capital, with additional investments from Mubadala Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and T. Rowe Price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet unit Waymo said it had \u200draised $16 billion in its latest fundraising round that valued the self-driving car \u2060startup at $126 billion, nearly tripling its valuation in less than two years. As one of the most sought-after applications of artificial intelligence, leading \u200cautonomous vehicle \u200ccompanies are investing heavily in commercializing their technology, with a focus on safety \u200cand regulatory collaboration to gain market share. The round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global, and Sequoia Capital, with additional investments from Mubadala Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and T. Rowe Price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}