UBER COMPARED WITH OTHER UNICORNS

Today the uber economy straddles the most parts of the world which powers the $40 billion ride-hailing aggregator service

Uber was founded as "UberCab" by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp in 2009 and the app was released the following June.

Uber expanded internationally for the first time in 2012. In 2014, it experimented with carpooling features Klout ranked the San Francisco-based company as the 48th most powerful company in America in 2014

in 2012. In 2014, it experimented with carpooling features Klout ranked the San Francisco-based company as the 48th most powerful company in America in 2014 By the end of 2015, Uber was estimated to be worth $62.5billion. Uber has received funding worth 8.61B in 13 Rounds from 52 Investors.( crunchbase data)

Among the early investors were Google Ventures who invested $258 million in 2013. The Chinese search engine Baidu has invested over $1.2billion and Fidelty has invested a further $1.2billion in Uber

Uber’s rise has been extraordinary, from start up in 2012 to worlds biggest unicorn in 2015, In less than 4 years years Uber has created and nurtured a commodity like " Taxi hailing service" and made it into one of the most envied start up giant in less than 4 years