Uber

Ecommerce — A mobile-first transportation platform that matches riders with nearby drivers in real-time

Ecommercemarketplaceest. 2013

▲ Rising

Category standing real

99th pctl · Ecommerce

33.2

Signal score

0–100 composite · real

#53

Category rank

of 5,171 · real

99th

Universe percentile

vs 79,105 modeled · real

Mortality P(dead)

model est. · model est.

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 11.1 → 22.2 across 36 readings (+11.1). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products

Signal (universe) real

Signal (category) real

Profile maturity real

Tag breadth real

Network position sparse

100

Press footprint sparse

100

Percentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions — network and press — reflect that most products have zero, so a single edge or mention lifts the rank; read those with the coverage flag.

Mortality outlook

model estimate

P(inactive)

Low risk

Higher risk than 10% of the universe.

This is a model estimate, not a verdict. 78,505 of the 79,105 modeled products are unlabeled and scored by the model only.

LightGBM · binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
Held-out AUC 0.71 · CV AUC 0.79 ± 0.05 · Brier 0.21
Trained on 600 verified labels (150 dead / 450 surviving)
Leakage-guarded: excludes status, discontinued_year, profile_maturity
Top drivers: tag breadth, signal, vintage, liveness, business model

n=600 is thin → 95% CI on AUC ≈ ±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.

Analyst read

generated from the metrics above · no external narrative

Uber sits in the 99th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #53 of 5,171 in Ecommerce. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 4% — a model estimate with a wide confidence band. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 10 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges. Signal momentum is positive (WoW +24.1).

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity

Company	Basis	Signal	P(dead)
Lugg 2.0services	tag-overlap	22.9	1%
Spiritravel	tag-overlap	15.7	28%
Lyft Carpooltravel	tag-overlap	18.6	9%
IceCreamZillaecommerce	similar	15.7	95%
Snapcashfinance	tag-overlap	15.7	14%
ODIAPPtravel	tag-overlap	32.9	37%
CabRide Apptravel	tag-overlap	30.0	7%
Homejoyservices	tag-overlap	15.7	92%

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Signal & P(dead) are real / model.

Structure

observed attributes

Business modelmarketplace

Liveness tieractive

Open sourceNo

Public APINo

Free tierNo

Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

real

6 disclosed funding rounds on record, 3 founders resolved. See the full cap table on the product profile →