Who owns Grab?
Grab is owned by Grab Holdings Limited (Singapore, NASDAQ: GRAB).[1]
Evidence: Grab Holdings Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-03-06, SEC EDGAR, 6 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Grab Holdings Limited verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
- Origin
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia
- Founded
- 2012
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online commerce › Ride-hailing
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: GRAB
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Grab
Grab is the app the company is named after, launched in Malaysia in June 2012 as MyTeksi, a taxi-hailing service, and renamed Grab in 2016. Its mobility booking services run under several names: GrabCar for private-hire cars, with variants for premium cars, wheelchair-accessible vehicles and child seats, GrabBike for motorcycle rides, GrabHitch for carpooling and JustGrab for cars or taxis at an upfront non-metered price. Mobility gross merchandise value was $7.9 billion in 2025 with 29.7 million monthly transacting users on average.
Ownership timeline of Grab
Where Grab sits in Grab
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Grab
Grab controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in ride-hailing, and who owns them
The 16 brands in ride-hailing on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is Lyft, with 3.
About the owner: Grab
Grab is a publicly listed company headquartered in Singapore, Singapore, founded in 2011. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: GRAB.
Grab calls itself Southeast Asia's leading superapp, operating in deliveries, mobility and digital financial services across more than 900 cities in eight countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It was incorporated in July 2011 as MyTeksi Sdn. Bhd. in Malaysia, launched a taxi-hailing service there in June 2012, renamed itself Grab in 2016 and listed on Nasdaq in December 2021 through a business combination with Altimeter Growth Corp. Its 2018 acquisition of Uber's Southeast Asian business left Uber a major strategic shareholder. Revenue was $3,370 million in 2025.
🇲🇾 Grab and other Malaysian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 71 brands that began in Malaysia. 11 of them (15%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Grab among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Grab?
The parent company of Grab is Grab Holdings Limited, a publicly listed company headquartered in Singapore.
Is Grab Malaysian or Singaporean?
Grab originated in Malaysia in 2012, but it is owned today by Grab Holdings Limited, which is headquartered in Singapore. So Grab is a Malaysian-origin brand under Singaporean ownership.
Is Grab still owned by Grab Holdings Limited?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Grab is still owned by Grab Holdings Limited. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Grab Holdings Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-03-06 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 6 March 2026; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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