SEC Form S-8 filed by Uber Technologies Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 14, 2025

Registration No. 333-              

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

2019 Equity Incentive Plan

2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full titles of the plan)

Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah

Chief Financial Officer

Uber Technologies, Inc.

1725 3rd Street

San Francisco, California 94158

(415) 612-8582 

(Name, address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed by Uber Technologies, Inc. (the “Registrant”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) for the purpose of registering (i) an additional 105,397,800 shares of the Registrant’s common stock, par value $0.00001 per share (the “Common Stock”), to be issued pursuant to the Registrant’s 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan”) and (ii) an additional 21,079,560 shares of Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the Registrant’s 2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2019 ESPP”). The Registrant previously registered (a) 130,000,000 shares of Common Stock that are or may become issuable under the 2019 Plan and 25,000,000 shares of Common Stock that are or may become issuable under the 2019 ESPP pursuant to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-231430) filed with the Commission on May 13, 2019, (b) an additional 88,027,075 shares of Common Stock that are or may become issuable under the 2019 Plan and an additional 17,166,767 shares of Common Stock that are or may become issuable under the 2019 ESPP pursuant to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-235776) filed with the Commission on January 2, 2020, (c) an additional 92,489,696 shares of Common Stock that are or may become issuable under the 2019 Plan and an additional 18,497,939 shares of Common Stock that are or may become issuable under the 2019 ESPP pursuant to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-253677) filed with the Commission on March 1, 2021, (d) an additional 97,470,577 shares of Common Stock that are or may become issuable under the 2019 Plan and an additional 19,494,115 shares of Common Stock that are or may become issuable under the 2019 ESPP pursuant to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-262994) filed with the Commission on February 24, 2022, (e) an additional 100,275,135 shares of Common Stock that are or may become issuable under the 2019 Plan and an additional 20,055,027 shares of Common Stock that are or may become issuable under the 2019 ESPP pursuant to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-269909) filed with the Commission on February 22, 2023, and (f) an additional 103,558,393 shares of Common Stock that are or may become issuable under the 2019 Plan and an additional 20,711,678 shares of Common Stock that are or may become issuable under the 2019 ESPP pursuant to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-277110) filed with the Commission on February 15, 2024 (collectively, the “Prior Registration Statements”). This Registration Statement relates to securities of the same class as those to which the Prior Registration Statements relate and is submitted in accordance with General Instruction E of Form S-8. Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statements are incorporated by reference herein.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS

The information called for by Part I of Form S-8 is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the instructions to Form S-8. In accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commission and the instructions to Form S-8, such documents are not being filed with the Commission either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT 

The following documents filed with the Commission by the Registrant are hereby incorporated into this Registration Statement by reference (other than information in such filings deemed, under Commission rules or otherwise, not to have been filed with the Commission):

In addition, all documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, subsequent to the date of this Registration Statement (other than information in such filings deemed, under Commission rules or otherwise, not to have been filed with the Commission), and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

Any statement contained in this Registration Statement or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained or incorporated by reference herein or in any subsequently filed document that is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement. 

The exhibits to this Registration Statement are listed below:

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Francisco, State of California, on February 14, 2025.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know All Persons By These Presents, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoint Dara Khosrowshahi, Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah, and Tony West, and each one of them, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in their name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.