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We make vanpool simple.
Our mission is to take cars off the road by making it safe and easy to vanpool in the post Covid world. A vanpool is a group of people who commute together, usually in a shared van. It’s an excellent, cost effective way to commute, used by hundreds of thousands of Americans, but the industry is largely offline. It’s difficult to find, join, and start vanpools. We build software that fixes this, making vanpooling simple and flexible. We believe that in a post Covid world, it will be more important than ever to rethink shared transportation and make it more adaptive. Our customers are organizations like transit agencies and employers who have existing vanpool fleets. We provide these customers with our SaaS platform that manages their vanpool programs. We capture real time information about open seats, then make those seats available to book through our app. We also make it easy for people to crowdsource and start new vanpools.
MagicBus provides a vanpool solution for commuters, employers, and organizations, featuring dynamic routing, route crowdsourcing, and a rider-friendly app. The platform supports restarting existing vanpools, creating new routes, and providing reporting for programs and subsidies.
MagicBus offers a vanpool platform with: a MagicRide vanpooling app for riders, drivers, and coordinators; dynamic vanpool routing and scheduling; route crowdsourcing where riders can suggest routes and join pools; a matching system that pairs riders, drivers, and vans into new pools with on-demand schedules; a reporting dashboard for program evaluation and subsidy applications (NTD and local governments); tools to restart existing vanpools and build new routes; a user-friendly interface with ongoing feature updates.
Who it’s for: Employers, organizations, and fleet managers looking to restart or expand employee vanpool programs and improve commuter transit options for their workforce.
hiring/traction mentions not explicit; mentions participation in trade events (SWTA 2023) and ongoing product updates.
I led growth at Mayhem.gg (W18, acquired), co-founded MagicBus (W16, ongoing), and worked for early stage VCs as an EIR, a Venture Partner, and an associate.
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