Lyft, which has raised some $4.4bn from investors including Alibaba, GM, Tencent, Alphabet, Magna, Rakuten, Jaguar Land Rover and Didi Chuxing, has confidentially filed to go public.

US-based ride hailing service Lyft has confidentially filed for an initial public offering that would represent an exit for a range of corporate investors, it confirmed yesterday.

The company intends to float in the first half of 2019, undisclosed sources told Reuters, though they did not disclose any details concerning a possible size for the IPO, which will be executed once the Securities and Exchange Commission has reviewed the filing.

Financial services firms JPMorgan Chase, Credit Suisse and Jeffries are…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.