Waze is owned by Alphabet (the United States, NASDAQ: GOOGL), which acquired the brand on 11 June 2013 for $1.1 billion.[1][2] Waze was founded in 2008 in Tel Aviv and was independent until 2013.
Evidence: Alphabet Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-05, SEC EDGAR, 5 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Waze is an Israeli navigation app built on traffic reports submitted by drivers themselves, which let it route around congestion faster than maps drawn from historical data. Google acquired it in 2013 for about $1.1 billion and still runs it separately from Google Maps.
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The 15 brands in maps & navigation on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is Garmin, with 2; Alphabet has 2.
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.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 57 brands that began in Israel. 4 of them (7%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Waze among them.
Google acquired the Israeli navigation app Waze for about $1.1 billion, keeping it as a separate product rather than folding it into Google Maps. Both apps still run side by side more than a decade later.
The parent company of Waze is Alphabet, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Waze originated in Israel in 2008, but it is owned today by Alphabet, which is headquartered in the United States. So Waze is an Israeli-origin brand under American ownership.
Alphabet completed its acquisition of Waze on 11 June 2013, after announcing the deal on 11 June 2013. The deal was valued at $1.1 billion.
Waze was an independent company from its founding in 2008 in Tel Aviv until Alphabet acquired it in 2013.
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Waze is still owned by Alphabet. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
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