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Jeeny Is Turning the Ride-Hailing App Into the Trip Itself
The Saudi-Jordanian app began by making taxis easier to find. Now it is stitching rides, parcels, payments, advertising and travel into one regional mobility layer - while trying to keep the economics attractive on both sides of the car door.
One Fare at a Time, Snapp! Built Iran’s Everyday Operating System
Snapp! started by putting a price on a Tehran taxi ride before the passenger got in. A decade later, that small piece of certainty anchors a 20-service super app built for the peculiar scale, sanctions and street logic of Iran.
Waymo Has Left the Lab. Now It Has to Teach Cities to Trust an Empty Driver’s Seat
Alphabet’s robotaxi company has turned autonomous driving into a service people can summon. Its next test is less cinematic and more difficult: making safety, fleet economics and public trust work in city after city.
Moove
Moove is an African-born global mobility fintech that finances vehicles for gig-economy drivers who are shut out of traditional bank lending. Using alternative, revenue-based credit scoring built on ride-hailing and delivery earnings, Moove lets drivers on platforms like Uber lease brand-new cars and pay them off through a share of their weekly income - a 'drive it, own it' model. Founded in Lagos in 2020 by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi, it now operates one of the world's largest managed ride-hail fleets and has become Waymo's autonomous-fleet operations partner across major US and UK cities.
Yango
Yango is a Dubai-headquartered technology company that started as a ride-hailing brand from the Yandex Taxi team in 2018 and has grown into a global everyday-services ecosystem. Operating in more than 30 countries across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Yango bundles mobility, food and grocery delivery, mapping, fintech, advertising, entertainment, and AI into locally adapted apps. Rather than owning fleets, it partners with local taxi companies and businesses, using a 'hyperlocal' playbook to tailor each product to regional cultures, currencies, and infrastructure.
Brian Schiff
Brian Schiff is the co-founder and CEO of Flip CX, a New York voice AI company that automates customer service phone calls for retail, ecommerce, healthcare and transportation brands. He and Sam Krut started the company at Cornell in 2015 as a campus ride-hailing app called RedRoute, then pivoted to voice automation after seeing how broken phone support was. Today Flip has processed more than 300 million automated calls for around 250 global brands, automating up to 90% of inbound volume. In January 2026 the company raised a $20M Series A co-led by Next Coast Ventures and Ridge Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $31M.
Uber
Uber is a global technology platform that connects riders, drivers, eaters, couriers, and shippers through a single app. What began in 2009 as a way to summon a black car in San Francisco has grown into a multi-sided marketplace spanning ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery (Uber Eats), and freight logistics (Uber Freight). It operates in roughly 70 countries and 10,000+ cities, serving more than 200 million monthly active users and completing over 13 billion trips a year.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Dara Khosrowshahi is the CEO of Uber, the global ride-hailing and delivery platform he has led since September 2017. An Iranian-American who fled Tehran as a child during the Revolution, he spent 12 years building Expedia into a travel giant before inheriting Uber at its most turbulent moment. Under his leadership, Uber went public in 2019, achieved sustained profitability, and expanded into a multi-service platform operating across 70+ countries with $193+ billion in annual gross bookings. A self-described gamer, sci-fi geek, and cycling enthusiast who once wore a Slayer T-shirt to his wedding, Khosrowshahi has rebuilt Uber's culture around a simple principle: 'We do the right thing. Period.'
Noureddine Tayebi
Noureddine Tayebi is the founder and CEO of Yassir, North Africa's most valuable tech startup and the leading super app for francophone Africa. Born in Algiers in 1977, he earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University after completing a master's degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He spent eight years at Intel in Silicon Valley accumulating over 50 patents before founding InSense, a nano-motion sensor startup acquired by Mojo Vision in 2018. In 2017, he co-founded Yassir, which has grown to serve 8 million+ users across 45 cities in six countries, offering ride-hailing, food delivery, grocery delivery, and fintech services. Yassir has raised $193.25 million in total, including a historic $150M Series B led by Mary Meeker's BOND, cementing Tayebi's position as a defining figure in Africa's digital economy.
Yassir
Yassir is the leading super app for French-speaking Africa, bundling ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and digital payments into a single platform serving more than eight million users across the Maghreb and beyond. Founded in 2017 by Stanford-trained engineer Noureddine Tayebi and El Mahdi Yettou, the company has raised over $193 million, including a record $150M Series B led by Bond.