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Moovit: The bus is late. The map is learning.
Moovit turned frustrated commuters into mapmakers. The result is a transit app with a second life as the software behind other people’s journeys.
Nir Bezalel and the distance between a map and a journey
He joined Moovit to build the engineering operation. Twelve years later, Nir Bezalel became CEO - with the same old problem waiting outside: getting people where they need to go.
The Ferry Ticket That Outlived the Machine
When Hurricane Sandy knocked out New York ferry ticket machines, a young company’s phone app kept fares moving. Bytemark spent the next decade turning that emergency workaround into transit payment plumbing.
RideCo Put Public Transit on Demand - Then the Hard Part Arrived
The Waterloo software company taught buses to move like a shared ride. Its next test is larger, less forgiving and already carrying nearly a million New Yorkers a month.
Telgani | Rent a car
Telgani is a Riyadh-based digital car-rental marketplace that lets people in Saudi Arabia book a vehicle from their phone and have it delivered to their door - or waiting at the airport - in about an hour. Founded in 2018, the platform aggregates 75+ rental brands and tens of thousands of cars into a single app, offering daily, monthly and yearly plans plus flexible subscriptions. Backed by strategic investors including Toyota distributor Hala Auto and Elm Company, Telgani has raised more than $9 million to modernize a fragmented car-rental sector across the Kingdom.
MAGIIS
MAGIIS is a white-label, AI-powered operating system for people-transportation providers - the chauffeur, limo, taxi, paratransit and non-emergency medical transport operators who move passengers for hire. Founded by serial entrepreneur Leonardo Gannio, the B2B SaaS platform bundles autonomous dispatching, omnichannel booking, fleet and driver management, integrated payments and an affiliate marketplace so small and mid-size fleets can run like ride-hailing giants without building the tech themselves. Headquartered in the Miami area with operations across Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, MAGIIS charges a 5% pay-as-you-go fee for small fleets and annual subscriptions for larger ones.
Upshift
Upshift is a San Francisco car subscription service for people who drive a few days a month but don't want the cost and hassle of owning a car. Members pick a flexible monthly plan, get a clean late-model hybrid (Toyota Prius or Corolla Hybrid) delivered with insurance, maintenance, and refueling included, and skip parking tickets, repairs, and long-term loans. Founded in 2012 by Ezra Goldman and Ayako Hiwasa, the company frames itself as 'the ownership alternative for low-mileage city drivers' and is positioning for an autonomous, connected, electrified future of car non-ownership.
Leonardo Gannio
Leonardo Gannio is the founder and CEO of MAGIIS, a Miami-based mobility-as-a-service platform for transportation-for-hire operators. A serial entrepreneur born in Buenos Aires, he built the technology distributor AKTIO Group into a $500M, seven-country business before selling it, after corporate stints at NCR, Informix, PeopleSoft, Lexmark and Ingram Micro. He is the author of 'Mobility 3.0: How to Win and Thrive in the Future of Passenger Transportation' and a keynote speaker who casts the future of mobility as electric, autonomous, connected and personalized.
David Block-Schachter
David Block-Schachter is the Chief Business Officer at Transit, the multimodal trip-planning and fare-payment app used in cities across North America and Europe. A car-free MIT transportation PhD who started his career designing websites for American Express and IBM, he co-founded the microtransit startup Bridj, ran customer technology as CTO of the MBTA, and now helps transit agencies turn rider data into faster buses and simpler fares. His through-line: use technology and data to make public transit work better for everyone.
Transit
Transit is a Montreal-based mobile app that turns the chaos of public transportation into a single, legible screen. It aggregates real-time schedules, GPS vehicle locations, and crowdsourced rider data across more than 1,100 cities in dozens of countries, layering in bikeshare, carshare, ridehail, microtransit, and mobile ticketing so people can navigate a city without owning a car. Founded by Sam Vermette and Guillaume Campagna, Transit partners directly with transit agencies who endorse and increasingly sponsor the app for their riders.
Ezra Goldman
Ezra Goldman is the co-founder and CEO of Upshift, a San Francisco-based company reinventing how city dwellers access cars. Rather than owning or leasing a vehicle full-time, Upshift members subscribe to a car that appears at their door when needed and vanishes when they don't - a fractional model that eliminates insurance headaches, maintenance costs, and the guilt of a depreciating asset sitting idle 95% of the time. Goldman brings 25+ years of shared-transportation obsession to the role, starting with a communist-themed campus bikeshare in 1999, through an MIT master's in urban planning, a PhD stint in Copenhagen studying why Danes ride bikes, and stints at City CarShare and ReachNow before building Upshift into a platform backed by MINI (BMW), Ford, and thousands of crowdfunding investors.
Lime
Lime is the world's largest shared electric vehicle company, renting dockless e-scooters and e-bikes through a single app across more than 200 cities in nearly 30 countries. Founded in 2017 as LimeBike, it pitches micromobility as the practical alternative to short car trips: cheaper, electric, and carbon-free. After surviving a brutal industry shakeout, Lime has turned cash-flow positive and filed to go public on Nasdaq under the ticker LIME.
Uber
Uber is a global technology platform that connects riders, drivers, eaters, couriers, and shippers through a single app. What began in 2009 as a way to summon a black car in San Francisco has grown into a multi-sided marketplace spanning ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery (Uber Eats), and freight logistics (Uber Freight). It operates in roughly 70 countries and 10,000+ cities, serving more than 200 million monthly active users and completing over 13 billion trips a year.
WHILL
WHILL designs and manufactures intelligent personal electric vehicles - sleek power chairs and an autonomous mobility service - that reframe the wheelchair as a piece of consumer technology. Founded in 2012 by three Japanese engineers from Nissan, Sony and Olympus, the company sells the Model C2 and Model F directly to consumers and operates an autonomous fleet service at airports including Haneda, Narita and Winnipeg.