{"id":345221,"date":"2026-02-03T01:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/waymo-raises-massive-16-billion-round-at-126-billion-valuation-plans-expansion-to-20-cities\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:38:27","slug":"waymo-raises-massive-16-billion-round-at-126-billion-valuation-plans-expansion-to-20-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/waymo-raises-massive-16-billion-round-at-126-billion-valuation-plans-expansion-to-20-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo raises massive $16 billion round at $126 billion valuation, plans expansion to 20+ cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/waymo-raises-massive-16-billion-round-at-126-billion-valuation-plans-expansion-to-20-cities.jpg\" \/>Waymo just closed a $16 billion funding round at a $126 billion valuation, the largest investment ever in an autonomous vehicle company. The Alphabet-backed robotaxi leader plans to use the capital to expand to over 20 new cities this year, including its first international markets. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/02\/02\/waymo-raises-16-billion-round-at-126-billion-valuation-plans-expansion\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/waymo-raises-massive-16-billion-round-at-126-billion-valuation-plans-expansion-to-20-cities\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":345222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}