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Uber


Uber, a San Francisco based technology startup is innovating at the intersection of mobile technology, car transportation & logistics. The Uber experience captures the elite limo experiences and transforms it into an on demand service that fits...

Founded in 2009
Employees: 60
Homepage:
Blog: http://blog.uber.com
Total money raised: $49.5M

Uber HQ

94105 405 Howard Street

San Francisco
USA CA
Updated on May 15, 2013
Uber at CrunchBase
Tags:   car   car-service   commuting   demand   design   limo   mesh   on-demand   real   real-time   service   taxi   time   traffic   uber   ubercab

Garrett Camp Co-Founder & Chairman
Travis Kalanick CEO & Co - Founder
Ryan Graves Head of Operations & Board Member
Conrad Whelan Systems Engineer
Ryan McKillen Software Engineer
Austin Geidt Head of Launch
Timothy Ferriss Advisor
Stephen (Steve) Russell Advisor
Casey Edgeton UX Designer
Paul Bragiel Board of Advisors
Michael York Operations & Logistics Manager
Shalin Amin Lead Experience Designer
Christopher Ballard General Manager, Uber, San Diego
Alex Priest Senior Community Manager
Oscar Salazar Advisor
Rob Hayes Member Of The Board Of Directors
Steve Jang Advisory Board Member
Josh Spear Investor
Bill Gurley Member Of The Board Of Directors
Curtis Chambers Engineering Manager
Dom Narducci Software Developer
Josh Mohrer General Manager, Uber NYC
Craig Hunter City Lead
Matt Marra Operations Manager
David Rohrsheim General Manager, Uber, Sydney
Past
Ryan Graves CEO & GM
Nihal Mehta Angel Investor
Matthew Kochman NYC General Manager
Alex Priest DC, Community Manager
James Aviaz Community Manager
Christopher Ballard Launcher

December, 2011

Uber raised $37M in a Series B round from Menlo Ventures, Jeff Bezos, Goldman Sachs, Benchmark, CrunchFund, and Troy Carter

Travis Kalanick: Uber Raised $37M In Its Latest Round, Not $32M    techcrunch.com

October, 2011

Added Matt Marra as Boston Operations & Logistics Manager


February, 2011

Uber raised $11M in unattributed round from Benchmark, Alfred Lin, Founder Collective, First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, and Scott Banister

Huge Vote Of Confidence: Uber Raises $11 million From Benchmark Capital    techcrunch.com

October, 2010

Uber raised $1.3M in angel funding from First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, Founder Collective, David Cohen, Mitch Kapor, Alfred Lin, Scott Banister, Cyan Banister, Babak Nivi, Naval Ravikant, Shawn Fanning, Jason Calacanis, Mike Walsh, Oren Michels, and Josh Spear

UberCab raises $1.25M to end your futile search for taxis    venturebeat.com

August, 2009

Uber raised $200K in seed round from Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick

March, 2009

Uber was founded on March, 2009