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# Who are the key customers and suppliers of Grab?

# Grab Holdings (NASDAQ: GRAB) — Key Customers and Suppliers

Grab is a Southeast Asian "superapp" operating across **deliveries, mobility, and digital financial services** in **eight countries — Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam** [1]. Because Grab is a three-sided platform (consumers ↔ drivers/merchants ↔ partners), "customers" and "suppliers" need to be defined by role within its ecosystem rather than as a traditional B2B supply chain. The summary below uses Grab's own classification from its Q1 2026 earnings call and recent 6-K filings.

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## 1. Key Customers (Demand Side)

| Customer Group | Scale / Detail | Source |
|---|---|---|
| **Consumers (MTUs)** | Grab serves an aggregate ecosystem of **>50 million users and partners** across 8 markets, generating **>20 billion lifetime transactions** | [2] |
| **Geographic footprint** | **>900 cities in 8 SEA countries** (Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) | [1] |
| **On-Demand MTU growth** | On-Demand MTU growth accelerated to **17% YoY** in Q1 2026; On-Demand GMV grew 24% YoY to **$6.1 billion** | [2] |
| **Superbank retail customers** | **>6 million customers** in Indonesia, **~60% of whom also hold a Grab and/or OVO account** — a direct cross-sell from the mobility/deliveries base into financial services | [4][6] |
| **GXS / GXBank customers** | Digital-bank customers in Singapore (GXS Bank) and Malaysia (GXBank) | [1] |
| **Advertiser customers (B2B)** | Merchant advertisers — **average advertiser spend grew 44% YoY** as merchants treat Grab as a paid-marketing channel | [9] |
| **Enterprise / B2B Mobility** | Corporate ride accounts inside the Mobility segment (e.g., GrabForBusiness) — see ecosystem references in [2] | [2] |

> **Read-through**: Grab's customer base is overwhelmingly **B2C consumers** in SEA, with a fast-growing **B2B merchant-advertiser** layer and a **digital-bank retail base** that is heavily fed by the existing superapp users.

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## 2. Key "Suppliers" (Supply Side of the Platform)

Grab is platform-asset-light, so its real "suppliers" are the **gig partners and technology vendors** that fulfill rides, deliveries, and financial services.

### 2a. Operational supply (the people who fulfill orders)

| Supplier Group | Detail | Source |
|---|---|---|
| **Driver-partners** | Total active driver-partners **+16% YoY / +4% QoQ to an all-time high** in Q1 2026; merchant + driver earnings rose 12% YoY | [9] |
| **Merchant-partners** | Restaurants and SMB sellers that supply food, groceries, and goods. **~50% of single-store active merchants** have adopted Grab's "MAI" Merchant AI Assistant | [2] |
| **Owned grocery suppliers** | **Jaya Grocer and Everrise** supermarkets in Malaysia — Grab-owned subsidiaries supplying its on-demand grocery delivery | [1] |

### 2b. Technology & strategic suppliers

| Supplier | Role | Source |
|---|---|---|
| **OpenAI** | Co-developed Grab's **Driver AI Assistant ("Coach")**, deployed to **>500,000 drivers**; Grab "bears all the AI token costs" | [3] |
| **WeRide** | Autonomous-vehicle technology partner for Grab's **Ai.R** robotaxi service in Singapore — first SEA AV service in a residential estate (~40,000 km logged) | [5] |
| **Nuitée** | Hotel-inventory/AI-pricing partner powering **GrabStays** last-minute hotel bookings inside the Grab app | [10] |
| **Cloud-infrastructure vendors** | Regional corporate costs explicitly include **cloud computing costs**; cloud + AI tokenization were called out as the main driver of the $28 million YoY step-up in regional corporate costs to $114 million in Q1 2026 | [8] |

### 2c. Capital & joint-venture "suppliers" (strategic shareholders / JV partners)

These are entities that supply capital, licenses, or balance-sheet capacity to Grab's financial-services arm:

| Partner | Relationship | Source |
|---|---|---|
| **Uber** | **Largest shareholder (~14%)** and "strategic partner" — Uber sold its SEA operations to Grab in 2018 and retained a stake | [7] |
| **Singtel** | JV partner in **GXS Bank** (Singapore digital bank); transferring its Superbank stake into GXS Bank in May 2026; remains a strategic investor | [4] |
| **Emtek** | Indonesian media conglomerate; consortium partner in **Superbank** | [4] |
| **KakaoBank** | South Korean digital bank; consortium partner in **Superbank** | [4] |
| **GXS Bank / GXBank** | Grab's own digital-bank subsidiaries in Singapore and Malaysia (acquiring control of Superbank in Indonesia) | [1] |

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## 3. Concentration / Risk Read

- **Customer concentration is low** by design — Grab's revenue is atomized across millions of consumers, drivers, and SMBs. There is **no single customer that materially drives revenue**; the diversification is structural across 8 countries and three segments (Deliveries / Mobility / Financial Services).
- **Supplier concentration is meaningful in two narrow areas**:
  1. **Cloud + AI compute** (OpenAI tokens + hyperscaler cloud capacity) — flagged by CFO Peter Oey as a deliberate cost step-up in Q1 2026 [8].
  2. **AV technology** is presently single-sourced to **WeRide** for the Singapore Ai.R pilot, although Grab has stated it intends to be a **hybrid AV operator** open to multiple AV software providers [5].
- **Strategic shareholder concentration**: **Uber's ~14% stake** is the only single-investor concentration of note; Grab has stated Uber remains a strategic partner with no anticipated conflict from Grab's planned Taiwan market entry [7].

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**Sources**
[1] 2026 6-K Grab Holdings Limited (Superbank consolidation press release, 20-May-2026) — Grab corporate description
[2] Grab Holdings Q1 2026 Earnings Call (4-May-2026) — Anthony Tan opening remarks
[3] Grab Holdings Analyst Meeting — GrabX 2026 (7-April-2026) — Anthony Tan / OpenAI / Coach
[4] 2026 6-K Grab Holdings Limited (20-May-2026) — Superbank consortium (Grab, Emtek, Singtel, KakaoBank, GXS Bank)
[5] Grab Holdings Q1 2026 Earnings Call (4-May-2026) — WeRide partnership / Ai.R AV service
[6] 2026 6-K Grab Holdings Limited (20-May-2026) — Superbank customer overlap with Grab/OVO
[7] Grab Holdings Business Update Call (23-March-2026) — Anthony Tan on Uber relationship
[8] 2026 6-K Grab Holdings Limited — Regional corporate costs / cloud computing line
[9] Grab Holdings Q1 2026 Earnings Call (4-May-2026) — Driver-partner and advertiser metrics
[10] Grab Holdings Analyst Meeting — GrabX 2026 (7-April-2026) — Nuitée / GrabStays partnership

Internal CLSA coverage on GRAB is available (most recent: "Grab — O-PF: Grab provides trading update," 9-Jun-2025; "Navigating M&A," 20-May-2025; "Growth & profitability equilibrium," 30-Apr-2025) and corroborates the customer/supplier picture above, but the most authoritative source-of-record disclosures on customer/partner identity and scale come directly from Grab's 6-K filings and earnings calls cited above.

## Citations

- [1] **2026 6-K Grab Holdings Limited** · external
- [2] **Grab Holdings Ltd. , Q1 2026 Earnings Call, 4-May-2026 8** · external
- [3] **Grab Holdings Ltd. , Analyst Meeting - Grabx, 7-April-2026 11** · external
- [4] **2026 6-K Grab Holdings Limited** · external
- [5] **Grab Holdings Ltd. , Q1 2026 Earnings Call, 4-May-2026 8** · external
- [6] **2026 6-K Grab Holdings Limited** · external
- [7] **Grab Holdings Ltd. , Business Update Call, 23-March-2026 8** · external
- [8] **2026 6-K Grab Holdings Limited** · external
- [9] **Grab Holdings Ltd. , Q1 2026 Earnings Call, 4-May-2026 8** · external
- [10] **Grab Holdings Ltd. , Analyst Meeting - Grabx, 7-April-2026 11** · external

