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Ride-hailing service Gett raises $80M led by existing investor VW at a ~$1.4B valuation, says it will be profitable by Q1 of next year

While Uber is growing its business with a net loss on its balance sheet, a smaller rival has confirmed a round of funding, and projects that it will be profitable by Q1 of next year.

TechCrunch Ingrid Lunden

Context & Ripple Effects

Gett has spent two years assembling a smaller-scale answer to Uber: a $200M acquisition of rival Juno consolidated the challenger field, while VW's earlier $300M investment tied the company to an automaker partner rather than pure venture capital. This $80M round, again led by VW at a ~$1.4B valuation, extends that pattern — incremental capital from a strategic backer instead of growth-at-all-costs fundraising.

First-order effects

  • VW doubles down on its ride-hailing position, converting its 2016 partnership stake into lead-investor control of Gett's trajectory toward a promised Q1 profitability date.
  • Corporate customers get a better-capitalized single platform for booking rides, taxis, and limos — the B2B focus is where Gett claims its path to profit runs, against Uber's net-loss growth.

Second-order effects

  • A profitable-by-deadline narrative from a sub-$2B rival sharpens the contrast with Uber's losses, forcing the larger player to defend its burn rate to its own investors.
  • With Juno absorbed and Gett signaling further fundraising this year, remaining regional ride-hailing operators face consolidation pressure — sell, niche down, or match a profitability clock they may not have.

Third-order effects

  • The corpus shows the pattern hardening: more raises ($200M at a $1.5B valuation, then $100M more) and repeated profitability targets, ending in a SPAC listing at ~$1.1B — below both private marks — a textbook instance of the [[/concepts#private-valuation-liquidity-gap|private valuation–liquidity gap]].
  • If strategic automaker capital keeps substituting for venture money, ride-hailing consolidates into B2B-oriented, profitability-first platforms backed by carmakers rather than consumer-growth unicorns.

The trend: Ride-hailing is splitting into two models — loss-funded consumer scale versus strategically backed, B2B profitability plays — with private valuations increasingly failing to survive the transition to public markets.