Lyft

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 Freenow mobile app, Europe. It 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.

Lyft was launched in the summer of 2012 by computer programmers Logan Green and John Zimmer as a service of Zimride, a carpooling company they founded in 2007. The company changed its name from Zimride to Lyft in May 2013. It expanded into Canada in December 2017, with operations in the Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa metropolitan areas. Lyft became a public company through an initial public offering in March 2019. David Risher was named CEO in March 2023.

Lyft acquired Motivate, the operator of Capital Bikeshare and Citi Bike, in November 2018. It sold its self-driving car division to Toyota for $550 million in April 2021. In July 2025, it acquired Free Now for €175 million, expanding in Europe.