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The Carpool That Couldn't Keep Its Promise
A parent-to-parent carpool app met a stubborn fact: good intentions cannot guarantee a Tuesday pickup. Kango's answer was to supply the screened driver, the insurance and the human backup itself.
Zonar’s big idea: make the driver get out and look
A wooden prototype became a fleet-management business by making vehicle inspections harder to fudge. Now Zonar wants to run the rest of the school-bus day, too.
The Yellow Bus Is Breaking. This Founder Turned Parents Into the Fleet.
Kimberly Moore spent 14 years climbing at Verizon, then bet at 53 that the safest ride to school isn't a yellow bus or an app-hailed stranger - it's the family three doors down. Go Together now runs school carpools in 27 states.
Zūm
Zūm is a Redwood City, California company that has reinvented the most analog corner of education: the yellow school bus. It pairs an AI-driven routing and fleet-management platform with apps for parents, drivers and districts, then layers on a fast-growing fleet of electric buses with vehicle-to-grid charging that can sell power back to the grid. Serving roughly 4,500 schools and districts nationwide, Zūm turned a clipboard-and-radio industry into a connected, electrified mobility network.
Ritu Narayan
Ritu Narayan is the founder and CEO of Zūm, the Redwood City company rebuilding the United States' largest mass transit system: the yellow school bus. After 15 years as a product leader at eBay, Yahoo, Oracle and IBM, she left to fix the unreliable rides she was juggling for her own kids. Today Zūm runs electric school bus fleets for more than 4,000 schools, deployed the nation's first all-electric district fleet in Oakland with vehicle-to-grid technology, and has raised about $577 million.