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Waymo POLITICAL

POLITICAL AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
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Corporate Communications & Public Stance

Waymo describes its mission as building “the world’s most trusted driver” and identifies itself as an autonomous-driving technology company established under Alphabet in 2016 1, 2.

Waymo’s current public materials identify U.S. service operations and expansions, including Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, and Atlanta 3, 2.

Alphabet’s 2025 Form 10-K identifies Waymo as a fully autonomous-driving company within Alphabet’s Other Bets portfolio and as a consolidated variable-interest entity 4.

Waymo’s February 2026 financing announcement identifies Alphabet as its majority investor 5.

Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories

No public evidence identified of Waymo-specific operations, subsidiaries, regulated services, deployments, tenders, or corporate registrations in Israel, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, or Gaza.

Waymo’s public service timeline identifies U.S. locations but does not identify an Israeli or occupied-territory service area, although the timeline is not a complete global operations register 2.

The OHCHR’s September 2025 settlement-business database update did not identify Waymo in the document-scoped review described in the research memo 6.

No Waymo-specific evidence was identified in the reviewed materials of autonomous-driving fleet deployment, mapping activity, equipment provision, or service delivery in West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights settlements 2, 6.

Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies

Waymo’s public leadership materials identify Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov as co-Chief Executive Officers 1.

Waymo also identifies Becky Bucich as Chief People Officer, Steve Fieler as Chief Financial Officer, Amar Mehta as Chief Legal Officer, Mauricio Peña as Chief Safety Officer, and several engineering, product, operations, and software executives 1.

No Waymo-specific evidence was identified of employee discipline connected to Israel/Palestine advocacy, content moderation, cartographic policy, charitable matching, military-leave subsidies, or product distribution to Israeli state or military users 4, 7, 8, 9.

Google workers’ Project Nimbus-related employee-relations dispute should not be attributed to Waymo because the reported employer and NLRB respondent were Google, not Waymo 8, 9.

The NLRB docket for Case 32-CA-348577 records Google as respondent, an August 2024 charge alleging an 8(a)(1) coercive-rules violation, and a bilateral settlement recorded in March 2025 8.

Brand Heritage & State Partnerships

Waymo’s corporate sources describe a commercial autonomous-transportation mission rather than a state ownership interest, golden share, founding geopolitical mandate, or Israeli state partnership 1.

Waymo LLC’s terms identify the service provider as Waymo LLC at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 10.

Alphabet’s subsidiary exhibit lists only significant subsidiaries and expressly omits subsidiaries that are not significant individually or in aggregate, so its omission of Waymo LLC does not resolve Waymo’s intermediate legal ownership chain 11.

The reviewed sources do not establish a Waymo-specific Israeli state partnership, government procurement relationship, military relationship, or state equity interest 10, 4, 7.

Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics

Waymo reported a $5.6 billion Alphabet-led financing round in October 2024 with continued participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Perry Creek, Silver Lake, Tiger Global, and T. Rowe Price 3.

Waymo reported a $16 billion financing round in February 2026 led by Dragoneer, DST Global, and Sequoia, with continued majority investment by Alphabet and participation from multiple additional investors 5.

Waymo’s February 2026 announcement does not disclose investor-specific ownership percentages 5.

Alphabet’s proxy reports that Larry Page and Sergey Brin collectively held approximately 52% of Alphabet’s voting power as of December 31, 2025, establishing control of Alphabet rather than a disclosed direct holding in Waymo LLC 12.

Israel’s Ministry of Finance states that Project Nimbus selected AWS and Google to provide public-cloud services to the Government of Israel, with participation from the Ministry of Defense and IDF 7.

The Project Nimbus procurement source does not name Waymo as a supplier or marketplace provider 7.

TIME’s April 2024 reporting concerned a Google Cloud document relating to Israeli Ministry of Defense access and did not identify Waymo as a party 13.

No supportable evidence was identified that Waymo’s autonomous-driving products, maps, fleet, or software were included in Project Nimbus 7, 13.

Corporate Structure & Primary Mission

Waymo operates as Waymo LLC and is an Alphabet-controlled autonomous-driving business 10, 4, 5.

Alphabet defines “Alphabet,” unless context indicates otherwise, to include Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiaries 4.

The available corporate disclosures do not provide Waymo LLC’s complete capitalization table, direct legal parent, external-investor ownership percentages, or a Waymo-specific board roster 4, 5, 11.

The California Public Utilities Commission lists Waymo LLC, doing business as Waymo, under TCP 38152 with drivered-pilot, driverless-pilot, drivered-deployment, and driverless-deployment authorizations 14.

Executive & Leadership Footprint

Waymo’s leadership page identifies Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov as co-CEOs 1.

Waymo identifies Satish Jeyachandran as Vice President of Engineering, Ryan McNamara as Vice President of Operations, Saswat Panigrahi as Chief Product Officer, and Srikanth Thirumalai as Vice President of Onboard Software 1.

The reviewed materials do not identify Waymo executives, directors, or officers as holding a Waymo-specific Israeli governmental, military, settlement, or territorial operating role 1, 2.

Footnotes

  1. https://waymo.com/about/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. https://blog.waymo.com/about/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. https://waymo.com/blog/2024/10/investing-to-bring-the-waymo-driver-to-more-riders/ ↩ ↩2

  4. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204426000018/goog-20251231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  5. https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/waymo-raises-usd16-billion-investment-round/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  6. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩ ↩2

  7. https://mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/en/news/details/111222 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  8. https://www.nlrb.gov/case/32-CA-348577 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. https://apnews.com/article/google-fire-workers-israel-government-contract-f33ea85a0b9257439c02bd2355cd76ad ↩ ↩2

  10. https://waymo.com/terms/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204426000018/googexhibit2101q42025.htm ↩ ↩2

  12. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000130817926000342/goog-20260424.htm ↩

  13. https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/ ↩ ↩2

  14. https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/regulatory-services/licensing/transportation-licensing-and-analysis-branch/autonomous-vehicle-programs/autonomous-vehicle-program-permits-issued ↩