Gett

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Gett and previously known as GetTaxi, is an Israeli B2B Ground Transportation Management (GTM) platform and marketplace, and ride-hailing app headquartered in London, and owned by GT GetTaxi (UK) Limited GetTaxi was founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Shahar Waiser and Roi More. In the summer of 2009, Waiser came up with the idea during a thirty-minute wait for a taxi to the airport in Palo Alto, California. GetTaxi's beta version in Hebrew started operating in Tel Aviv two years later, in the summer of 2011, and the service was launched in London in August 2011. In April 2026, Lyft agreed to acquire Gett's UK operations for £40 million. Upon completion, the Gett team was to transfer to Freenow by Lyft, Lyft's European mobility platform Many of the new companies in Israel are founded by individuals who have come out of Unit 8200 , a unit within the Israeli Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces - Israel's equivalent of Britain's GCHQ or America's NSA - a "signals intelligence" agency which has moved heavily into cyber-operations.