In what city did Uber first launch its service?

Uber first launched its service in San Francisco.

The company began as UberCab, a premium car-booking experiment created by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick. After a beta period, Uber went live publicly in San Francisco in 2010, initially offering rides in luxury black cars ordered through a smartphone app. The service was aimed at making private transportation easier to request and pay for.

San Francisco was the launch city, although Uber expanded quickly. It reached New York in 2010 or 2011, depending on whether one counts early operations and public launch milestones, and later expanded internationally to Paris and London. That rapid growth helped turn a local black-car service into a global mobility company.

A common mix-up is Los Angeles, which became an important early U.S. market but was not the original launch city. London was Uber's first European city, not its birthplace.