Top Ride Sharing Startups in 2026

Zoox was founded to make personal transportation safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable—for everyone. To achieve that goal, the team created a whole new form of transportation. Zoox will provide mobility-as-a-service in dense urban environments. We will handle the driving, charging, maintenance, and upgrades for our fleet of vehicles. The rider will simply pay for the service. In 2020, Zoox joined forces with Amazon. And in the process, solidified our future in the autonomous vehicle industry. We are focused on testing on private and public roads as we move towards launching the first Zoox ride-hailing service.

Lime is the world's largest shared electric vehicle company. Named a Time 100 Most Influential Company in 2021, Lime has powered more than 300 million electric bike and scooter rides in nearly 250 cities, replacing an estimated 75 million car trips and preventing 26,000 tons of CO2. Learn more at li.me! We're on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Guided by our core pillars of safety, sustainability, community, and innovation, we're helping to decarbonize transportation and change the way people move in cities for good.

Zum, the leader in modern, sustainable, and tech-enabled student transportation, also now offers Zum Charter, transportation service that allows teachers, coaches, parents, event planners and others to book vehicles for school-related athletic and field trips, summer camps, sports trips, community and company events and tours, as well as other forms of short- and long-distance travel. Zūm provides one seamless, real-time interface for parents, drivers, schools, districts, administrators, and operators, to transport children safely and with increased visibility and personalized care. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information, visit ridezum.com.

Lyft is a ride sharing and alternative transport company that serves to safely and efficiently move people from one destination to the next. Using our app, our customers call on our vast fleet of freelance and professional drivers to move around town, whether it’s simple one way trips to the airport, the secure transport of children traveling alone to home or school, or providing a helping and responsible hand to those too incapacitated to drive themselves. We also offer an extensive network of electric scooters that are ideal for close commuting and “last mile” transport from bus stops and train and local rail stations.

In September 2019, Aptiv announced a 50/50 joint venture with Hyundai Motor Group, bringing together Hyundai and Aptiv’s advanced engineering, R&D capabilities, global footprint, and shared commitment to advancing autonomous driving technology.