Uber is partnering with Iceland Foods in the UK to offer quick delivery services for frozen groceries, providing customers with rapid order fulfillment.

Uber

Iceland Foods

Uber Eats and Leafly have joined forces to offer cannabis delivery in Toronto, allowing residents to order legal cannabis from licensed retailers through the Uber Eats app, with deliveries made by certified staff.

Social and cultural shifts accompanied by changes in laws spark new opportunities

Cannabis

Leafly

Companies that distribute and sell cannabis and cannabis-related products.

Boots has partnered with Uber Eats to offer customers quick delivery of health and beauty products from 14 stores across the UK, marking Boots as the first health and beauty retailer on the Uber Eats platform.

Boots UK

Uber Australia has teamed up with Splend to provide 500 premium electric vehicles (EVs) to driver partners in New South Wales, facilitating their transition to eco-friendly transportation as part of Uber's goal to achieve a zero-emissions platform by 2040.

Splend

Motional entered into a 10-year partnership with Uber to launch robotaxi services on the latter’s platform in North America. Motional will deploy its all-electric Hyundai Ioniq 5-based autonomous vehicles (AVs) for Uber and will be available on UberX and Uber Comfort Electric in select markets. Neither party has yet disclosed the initial locations. As a part of the deal, Uber will also provide data-driven insights to improve the efficiency and utilization of Motional’s AVs.

Autonomous and connected technologies shaping the future of the auto industry

Auto Tech

Motional

Companies developing self-driving technology for autonomous passenger vehicles including cars, buses, and shuttles

Uber has partnered with Marqeta, a card issuing platform that provides infrastructure and tools to help companies build and manage payment programs to introduce the Uber Pro Card, an enhanced loyalty and payment solution for drivers and couriers.

Marqeta

Collaborating with Branch, Uber has introduced the Uber Pro Card. This card is designed to empower drivers and couriers with tailored benefits such as cashback on gas and electric vehicle charging.

Branch

Procurant and Uber Freight partnered to enable sourcing and booking shipping with competitive rates directly within the Procurant order management platform.

Using online platforms, autonomy, electric and fuel-cell tech solutions to shape the future of trucking.

Truck Industry Tech

Procurant

Apps that help shippers connect with carriers, optimize freight logistics, track shipment and driver hours, etc.

ShiftMed, a healthcare workforce management company, is partnering with Uber Health to offer transportation and related services as an employee benefit

ShiftMed

Uber partnered with the POS provider Toast to allow restaurants in the US to join Uber Eats directly through POS systems. The integration allows the orders on Uber Eat’s platform to be processed by the POS providers.  It will also allow Uber to retrieve and upload menus directly from the POS platforms to the Uber Eats page, allowing for easier management of menus and a more streamlined onboarding process for restaurants.

From fast food to fine dining, everything but the kitchen sink is suddenly just a tap away.

Online Food Delivery

Toast

On-demand delivery platforms that offer a wide range of items (such as various cuisines, groceries, etc)

Uber partnered with the POS provider Clover to allow restaurants in the US and Canada to join Uber Eats directly through POS systems. The integration allows the orders on Uber Eat’s platform to be processed by the POS providers. It will also allow Uber to retrieve and upload menus directly from the POS platforms to the Uber Eats page, allowing for easier management of menus and a more streamlined onboarding process for restaurants.

Clover

Stellantis and Uber, in collaboration with Free2Move, are partnering to target the French electric vehicle market.

Electrifying passenger and commercial travel

EV Economy

Stellantis

Companies developing battery electric cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks

Bringg has partnered with Uber Direct in France to give retailers access to Uber's courier network, enabling seamless and controlled last-mile delivery experiences for customers and enhancing Bringg's delivery capabilities in the EMEA market.

Bringg

Nuro entered into a 10-year commercial agreement with Uber to make autonomous food deliveries for Uber Eats customers starting in late 2022. Initially, the companies will make deliveries in Houston (Texas) and Mountain View (California), with plans to expand into other areas including the greater Bay Area.

Automation and robotics are finally creating solutions for the complexities of doorstep deliveries.

Last-mile Delivery Automation

Nuro

This is a sub-branch of self-driving cars and represents autonomous vehicles that can move along public roads. The technology used is similar to self-driving cars. ADVs have a higher load capacity and travel at a faster speed than vehicles like droids.

Uber has signed a 10 year deal with the autonomous driving startup Nuro to launch food delivery by driverless delivery pods in California and Texas. A pilot of autonomous delivery vehicles is to be launched in Mountain View, California, and Houston, Texas with plans to eventually expand the service area to the greater Bay Area in California.

African startup Moove, a mobility fintech and Uber's top EMEA vehicle supplier, expands to London with a 100% EV rent-to-buy model, aiming to become the biggest EV partner on Uber's platform in the city, contributing to its net zero carbon goals. This supports Uber's plan to transition to an all-electric London platform by 2025.

Moove

ADT has partnered with Uber to integrate its mobile safety solutions into the Uber app, offering live assistance to riders and drivers in the United States.

Uber has partnered with the New York-based ecommerce marketing technology company Rokt to provide machine learning-generated highly personalized offers to shoppers during the final stages of an Uber Eats transaction. The technology will initially be launched in the US, Canada, Australia, and Japan.

ROKT

Uber Eats has teamed up with Office Depot to provide on-demand delivery of office and school supplies, expanding its delivery offerings.

Office Depot

Uber and The Body Shop are expanding their partnership to include The Body Shop's retail stores across the U.S. Customers in new cities can now use Uber Eats to purchase and have delivered over 2,000 products from The Body Shop's range.

The Body Shop International

To gain access to Omio's ground transportation inventory and technology, allowing Uber users to search and book international and national rail and coach trips via its app.

Travel Tech

Omio

Platforms to search, compare, plan, and book transport (flights, buses, trains), hotels, and/or travel packages

Uber has launched a service in Delhi NCR, India, enabling users to book rides via WhatsApp's chatbot, eliminating the need for the Uber app and providing a more intuitive and multilingual experience.This integration, a global first for Uber, was successfully tested in Lucknow in December 2021.

Riding together toward a sustainable future

Shared Mobility

BitPay

Terminal Africa has partnered with Uber, adding to its list of logistics partners and furthering its mission to become a leading solution for eCommerce, payments, and logistics in Africa.

Terminal

Google's Waymo entered into a long-term strategic partnership with Uber Freight to haul loads for the Uber Freight network. The pilot will take place on a route between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

Alphabet

Developers of autonomous light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks. Most companies outfit truck chassis with their technology. The majority of autonomous trucks available test at SAE Level 3 (i.e., require a driver present and ready to take control or remote assistance by an operator).

Uber Eats launched nationwide shipping in partnership with FedEx for its US market and now offers across-the-state delivery of specialty products from select merchants located in New York City, Miami, and Los Angeles. This service coverage excludes Alaska and Hawaii.

FedEx

Infrastructure providers that offer delivery or dispatch management systems

Uber partnered with its spinout robotic sidewalk startup, Serve Robotics, to deploy up to 2,000 AI-powered sidewalk delivery robots for Uber Eats deliveries across multiple US markets.

Serve

Uber has partnered with IT Taxi, Italy's largest taxi dispatch service, enabling 12,000 taxi drivers to accept ride requests through the Uber app across 90 cities in the country.

itTaxi

Uber and Grocery Outlet are partnering to provide on-demand and scheduled grocery delivery services from 72 Grocery Outlet stores across California, Oregon, and Washington through Uber and Uber Eats, offering customers a convenient way to get their favorite products delivered to their door.

Grocery Outlet

UberEats will launch a delivery pilot in Los Angeles in partnership with Motional, an autonomous vehicle technology company. The pilots will start out delivering food from only a few merchants and will focus on long-distance deliveries in Santa Monica. Customers residing within the pilot zones can choose to have their food delivered by an autonomous vehicle (AV). They can track the order and when they receive a notification to meet the AV outside, they can grab their food by unlocking the vehicle using a passcode sent to their phone. Customers will be charged for the deliveries. However, Uber expects that certain delivery fees, which might normally be applicable, may not be charged during this initial phase for deliveries made by Motional due to certain California regulations. In parallel to this pilot program uber will be piloting an autonomous delivery partnership with Serve Robotics, a robotic sidewalk delivery startup.

7UP is teaming up with Uber Eats for a summer promotion, offering consumers the chance to win various rewards, including Uber Eats vouchers, discounts on grocery orders, and free 2L bottles of 7UP.

Britvic

Tesco has teamed up with Uber to expand its grocery delivery service at 20 stores across the UK, including Edinburgh, Bradford, Portsmouth, Norwich, St Albans and Letchworth

Tesco

Flywheel partners with Uber, allowing taxi drivers nationwide to accept Uber trip requests, expanding income opportunities and transportation choices.

Flywheel

To provide Uber Eats services to 3,000+ bp retail locations by 2025. The new agreement builds on the companies’ existing local agreements, with the intent to expand its market reach.

British Petroleum

Curb and Uber have formed a strategic partnership to enable Curb-connected taxi drivers to receive ride requests from Uber users, expanding transportation options for riders and driving more trips for drivers in North America.

Curb

Platforms that facilitate carpooling on-demand, allowing drivers and passengers to organize shared rides with one another. Also includes those that offer pre-arranged car pooling services but excludes van and bus sharing services.

Uber has partnered with Creative Mobile Technologies (CMT) which also operates a taxi app called Arro, to enable passengers in New York City to use the Uber app for e-hailing yellow taxicabs.

CMT Group

Uber Canada and FLO are partnering to encourage electric vehicle adoption in major Canadian cities by offering drivers discounts on FLO Home charging stations and FLO members Uber Green discounts, aiming to reduce carbon emissions and promote sustainable transportation.

Companies that facilitate EV charging. Includes both charging infrastructure providers and network operators. Also includes vehicle-to-grid technologies.

The purpose of TrueCar's partnership with Uber is to provide drivers and delivery people with an accessible way to acquire vehicles and promote the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs)

TrueCar

Uber's Bus for Business service in Egypt has partnered with Nissan Motor Egypt to transport around 1000 employees through 65 cross-city routes.

Nissan Motor

Uber and Wallbox N.V. are extending their partnership nationwide, offering discounted electric vehicle (EV) charging packages to Uber drivers.

Wallbox

Uber has partnered with Smart & Final Stores to offer on-demand grocery delivery across the West Coast, including alcohol delivery through Uber Eats in select locations.

Smart & Final

Uber has acquired Car Next Door, an Australian car-sharing platform, focusing on providing a privacy-safe environment for renters.

Car Next Door

Aberdeen FC has partnered with Uber Eats, making them the club's Food Delivery Partner, offering promotions to supporters and providing food options from Scottish restaurants through in-stadium and digital channels.

Aberdeen Football Club

Motional, a self-driving joint venture of Hyundai Motor and Aptiv, is entering the autonomous delivery market by providing meal kits to California Uber Eats customers.

Aurora, an autonomous vehicle technology startup, has announced a multiphase commercial pilot with Uber’s online freight matching solution Uber Freight, to haul goods in Texas and integrate Uber Freight's shipping platform within Aurora Horizon (its trucking product suite).

Aurora

Moove has partnered with Uber to provide motorcycles for drivers in Kenya.

Uber and Opibus partner to accelerate electric vehicle adoption in Africa, providing 3,000 electric motorcycles for emissions-free driving.

Roam

Allianz Partners and Uber have partnered to offer protection and security for independent drivers and couriers associated with Uber and Uber Eats across 23 European countries starting from January 1, 2022.

Allianz

Western Technology Investment

Wavemaker Partners

Delivery Hero

7-Ventures LLC

Think + Ventures

One Planet Group

Coughdrop Capital

Bossanova Investimentos

Delivery Hero Ventures

Vebu Labs

Pitbull Ventures

Great Circle Ventures

Essential Capital

Serve Robotics

Refers to autonomous vehicles that use pedestrian walkways and travel a little faster than average walking speed (generally 3-6 miles an hour). These vehicles can usually carry up to around 20 lb. and use a camera, radar, and sensors to move autonomously. 

Uber OOH has partnered with Vistar Media, enabling buyers to purchase cartop digital inventory programmatically through the Vistar supply-side platform, enabling accessibility across multiple demand-side platforms.

Using AI to automate, enhance and optimize marketing activities

Marketing Automation

Vistar Media

Startups offering tools for finding and attracting potential customers with targeted ads.

Uber has partnered with WhatsApp to offer a chatbot service that allows users to book rides through WhatsApp messages, eliminating the need to install the Uber app.

Harnessing the power of social influence to fuel online sales

Social Commerce

AI-powered tools for automatically monitoring and responding to customer queries across multiple social media channels.

Hims & Hers Health has partnered with Uber Technologies to offer its personal care products via the Uber Eats app.

Hims & Hers

Uber has partnered with Greenlots, a Shell Group member, to create three new EV charging locations in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Shell

Fidelity

Highbridge Capital Management

Abu Dhabi Fund for Development

Sixty Degree Capital

True Capital Management

Lime

Platforms that gives commuters access to transportation options such as bikes, scooters, segways, etc. that are designed for short distances, typically under 5 miles. The segment includes bike and scooter sharing services excluding hailing services.

Sequoia Capital

T. Rowe Price

Index Ventures

Volvo Group Venture Capital

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

PACCAR

Baillie Gifford

Primecap Management

Reinvent Capital

Counterpoint Global

Uber partners with buybuy BABY to introduce a baby and kids section on Uber Eats, offering on-demand delivery of essential items from over 750 Bed Bath & Beyond locations and nearly 120 buybuy BABY stores nationwide.

BuybuyBABY

Uber has partnered with Bed Bath & Beyond to introduce a new baby and kids vertical on the Uber Eats app.

Bed Bath & Beyond

Uber is teaming up with Hertz to offer 50,000 Tesla rentals to ride-hail drivers by 2023, starting in select cities and expanding nationwide.

Hertz

Uber and Wallbox have partnered to support Bay Area ride-share drivers in transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs), aligning with Uber's emissions reduction goals. This partnership offers drivers accessible and affordable home charging solutions through Wallbox's EV charging products.

Uber Technologies and Carrefour, Europe's largest retailer, are collaborating to introduce a swift grocery delivery service named Carrefour Sprint in Paris.

Carrefour

Uber Freight partnered with global card issuing platform Marqeta and workforce payments platform Branch to offer faster payments and other financial services to logistics companies. Uber Freight will utilize Marqeta’s card issuing platform and Branch’s digital wallet for the services. Through this, the company reports it would be able to pay carriers within two hours of approving proof-of-delivery, compared to the traditional process which takes at least 30 days.

The Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce (CBCC) and Uber Canada have launched Black Business Direct, a free digital directory for Canadians to support local Black-owned businesses.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Papa's collaboration with Uber Health and Pals aims to streamline transportation for Pal-supported medical activities, enhancing accessibility to appointments and community events.

Papa Inc.

DRAIVER's extended partnership with Uber for Business offers a comprehensive mobility solution for the automotive industry, integrating logistics through DRAIVER's platform with Uber services.

Draiver

Uber, the global ride-hailing platform that seamlessly connects riders with drivers, with an aim to encourage digital financial inclusion in Pakistan, is introducing digital payments for its riders and partner drivers, in collaboration with Easypaisa, Pakistan’s leading digital payments platform.

Easypaisa

Hulu has partnered with Uber Eats to offer its subscribers (Hulu, Hulu (no ads), and Hulu + Live TV) six months of free Eats Pass membership, which includes unlimited free delivery on orders over $15, 5% off eligible orders, and 10% off the first three eligible rides per month.

Hulu

Uber has joined forces with Now Pensions to offer a pension scheme for its drivers.

NOW: Pensions

Lula partners with Uber to offer nationwide delivery service for local convenience stores, addressing increased demand for convenient and accessible shopping options.

Lula Convenience

Tampa's BlueGrace Logistics partners exclusively with Uber Freight, providing U.S. shippers access to BlueGrace's technology for less-than-truckload (LTL) services.

Blue-Grace Logistics

Woolworths is teaming up with Uber to offer same-hour grocery delivery in response to COVID-19 lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne, with plans to expand across the eastern seaboard and nationally through Metro stores by early next year.

Woolworths

Uber has acquired the Hong Kong e-hail startup HKTaxi with the aim of expanding income opportunities for taxi drivers and enhancing convenience for riders. T

HKTaxi

BlackRock

The Baupost Group

Clean, congestion-free air travel gets liftoff

Passenger eVTOL Aircraft

Joby Aviation

Companies that build eVTOLs that use rechargeable electric batteries (mostly lithium-ion) for propulsion. Batteries tend to be heavier and have lower energy density resulting in short vehicle flight-time and range.

Uber Health and ModivCare have formed a nationwide partnership to enhance healthcare accessibility, particularly for On-Demand Rides in underserved communities. This collaboration aims to provide integrated supportive care and non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) solutions to over 30 million patients nationwide, including Medicaid and Medicare Advantage members.

Uber

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