Silicon Valley trip-hailing service Lyft Inc. has pitched itself for an acquisition to a laundry list of attainable patrons together with the two most dear tech firms in the world, Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.26% Amazon Inc. AMZN, -0.94% and Google father or mother Alphabet Inc. GOOG, -0.27% GOOGL, -0.39% in step with the new York occasions. The instances said that Lyft even tried to promote itself to rival Uber applied sciences Inc., but came closest to a take care of common Motors Co. GM, +zero.89% the carmaker that invested 1/2 a thousand million dollars into Lyft earlier this yr. nonetheless, the instances said even those discussions never translated into an authentic supply for the startup, which was valued at $ 5.5 billion in its newest non-public-funding round, according to The Wall boulevard Journal. Lyft has been working with Qatalyst partners LP, a Silicon Valley investment bank identified for steering companies via acquisitions, the Journal prior to now reported.
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