Yandex Taxi
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Yandex Taxi (Russian: Яндекс Такси, romanized: Yandeks Taksi; stylised as Yandex.Taxi) is an international company operating taxi hailing and food delivery services across Russia, the CIS, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. It is owned by Russian tech company Yandex.[1] The company is among the world's leading developers of self-driving technology.[2]
Yandex.Taxi | |
Company type | Public company |
Industry | Information Technology Transportation |
Founded | October 26, 2011; 12 years ago (2011-10-26) |
Founders | Daniil Shuleyko |
Headquarters | Russia |
Key people | Daniil Shuleyko (CEO) |
Revenue | 37,931,000,000 Russian ruble (2019) |
Owner | Yandex N.V |
Website | taxi |
Yandex.Taxi was founded by Yandex N.V., a Russian multinational company that operates a search engine, an Internet portal, and about 70 other online services in multiple countries.[3] Sometimes described as the «Russian Google,[4] Amazon, Uber and Spotify[5]», Yandex has been listed on the NASDAQ since 2011. The company focuses on developing machine learning-based technologies. Yandex.Taxi is a separate, private limited liability company within Yandex Group, incorporated in the Netherlands as Yandex.Taxi B.V.
The Yandex.Taxi or also named Yango ride-hailing services operates in more than 1,000 cities, including 300 large cities across Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, Serbia, Israel, Ivory Coast, Finland, Ghana,[6] Romania, Norway, and Bolivia.[7] More than 700,000[8] drivers are connected to the network.
The food-tech arm of the company includes food delivery service Yandex.Eats, the super-fast grocery delivery service Yandex.Lavka,[9][10] and the meal-kit service Yandex.Chef, previously known as Partiya Edy (Russian: "Food Party"). As of 2019, the Yandex.Lavka food delivery service is available through the Yandex.Taxi app, and operates in Russia, Uzbekistan as well as Kazakhstan.[11]
In 2020, Yandex.Taxi was reportedly developing AI-infused proprietary hardware and software for its vehicles that monitors drivers’ attention levels, as well as a facial recognition system that determines the identity of the person behind the wheel.[12]
In April 2022, Yandex.Taxi was banned in Estonia due to the Russian government's requirement that it share users' personal data with the government. Estonia encouraged other EU countries to sanction the company as well.[13]