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Lyft, Inc. is an American company offering ride-hailing services, e-scooters, and bicycle-sharing systems in the United States and Canada, and, via its Free Now mobile app, Europe. Lyft is the second-largest ridesharing company in the United States after Uber. It has 25 million active riders and coordinates 9 million rides per day.

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Logan Green and John Zimmer started Zimride in 2007 to share long-distance rides between college campuses, then pivoted to on-demand urban trips in 2012 under the Lyft brand. The San Francisco company now runs rideshare across the US and Canada alongside Lyft Black, XL, bikes, and scooters. After its March 2019 NASDAQ debut at $72, CEO David Risher took over in 2023 and pushed partnerships with Mobileye, May Mobility, and BENTELER for autonomous deployments. Q1 2026 reached 28.3 million active riders, $4.9B gross bookings, and $1.7B revenue.

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Researched 2026-05-07.