Waze is owned by Alphabet (the United States, NASDAQ: GOOGL), which acquired the brand on 11 June 2013.[1][2] Waze was founded in 2008 in Tel Aviv and was independent until 2013.
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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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.
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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.
Waze was an independent company from its founding in 2008 in Tel Aviv until Alphabet acquired it in 2013.
Yes. As of 8 September 2026, Waze is still owned by Alphabet. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
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