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Why Uber paid $617 million for a place to park
SpotHero turned spare garage capacity into something drivers could buy before leaving home. Its $617 million sale to Uber puts a price on fifteen years of making parking less of a guessing game.
Jonathon Barkl Is Teaching Parking Lots to Pay Attention
A student parking problem became a lesson in door-to-door sales, operational grit, and the value of seeing what everyone else ignores. Now AirGarage is using parking as the first test of a larger idea: physical real estate can behave like software once it becomes observable.
Chirag Jain
Chirag Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Get My Parking, a smart parking technology company he started in 2015 with Rasik Pansare after the two met on the Jagriti Yatra train journey across India. An IIT Madras graduate who spent two years in the automotive industry, Jain set out to digitize the largely unorganized parking sector with affordable, white-labeled, IoT-driven software. Under his leadership Get My Parking has grown to serve tens of millions of parking transactions across more than a dozen countries, raised multiple rounds of venture funding, and pushed into AI-powered products like license plate recognition and the AVA voice support agent. He was named to Business World's Disrupt 40 Under 40 in 2017.