Who owns Waymo?
Waymo is owned by Alphabet (the United States, NASDAQ: GOOGL).[1]
Evidence: Alphabet Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-05, SEC EDGAR, 5 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Alphabet Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Mountain View, California
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Mountain View, California
- Founded
- 2009
- Category
- Internet & digital › Platforms & devices › Connected devices
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: GOOGL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Waymo
Waymo began as a self-driving car project inside Google in 2009 and became a separate Alphabet company in 2016. It runs driverless taxi services in several American cities, and is one of the few ventures outside search and advertising to reach paying customers at scale.
What Alphabet's annual report says about Waymo
Sentences about Waymo from Alphabet's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In Other Bets, our fully autonomous driving technology company, Waymo, is now providing fully autonomous, paid ride-hailing services to customers in multiple cities.
Other Bets operating loss of $7.5 billion for the year ended December 31, 2025 included a $2.1 billion employee compensation charge recognized in the fourth quarter for Waymo, primarily reflected in research and development expenses, based on estimated stock valuation.
In February 2026, Waymo announced an investment round of $16.0 billion, the significant majority of which was funded by Alphabet.
How often Alphabet names Waymo in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Waymo
Where Waymo sits in Alphabet
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Alphabet
Alphabet controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 13 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- Android (2003)
- Fitbit (2007)
- Gmail (2004)
- Google Chrome (2008)
- Google Cloud (2008)
- Google DeepMind (2010)
- Google Maps (2005)
- Google Nest (2010)
- Google Play (2008)
- Google Search (1998)
- Waze (2008)
- YouTube (2005)
Other brands in connected devices, and who owns them
The 24 brands in connected devices on Brandtree belong to 14 owners. The largest is Garmin, with 5; Alphabet has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| fēnix | Garmin | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Arlo | Arlo Technologies | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Jiobit | Life360 | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Roku (streaming platform) | Roku | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Ring | Amazon | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Anker eufy | Anker Innovations | 🇨🇳 China |
| Xiaodu | Baidu | 🇨🇳 China |
| Wemo | FIT Hon Teng | 🇹🇼 Taiwan |
About the owner: Alphabet
Alphabet is a publicly listed company headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States, founded in 1998. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: GOOGL.
Alphabet was created in 2015 as a holding company above Google, separating the search and advertising business from ventures such as Waymo and Verily. Google itself was founded in 1998 by two Stanford graduate students, and advertising against search results still produces the overwhelming majority of the group's revenue.
🇺🇸 Waymo and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,570 brands that began in the United States. 492 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Waymo is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Waymo?
The parent company of Waymo is Alphabet, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Waymo American?
Yes. Waymo originated in the United States in 2009 and its owner, Alphabet, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Waymo still owned by Alphabet?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Waymo is still owned by Alphabet. 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] Alphabet Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-05 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 5 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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