YCW15· AI· DataSmarking
Digitize $655B parking industry
Founders
Not read from YC yet; the weekly run fills these in.
Same space
Adjacent
Overlapping tags, a different niche.
SpotAngelsS14Waze for parkingShared: parkingActive
FixedS14iPhone app to fight your parking tickets.Shared: parkingInactive
Meter FeederW16Helping fleets find and pay parking ticketsShared: parking, citie, nycActive
CuldesacS18We build cities for people, not cars.Shared: parking, citie, urbanActive
truemetricsS23We show couriers where to park and enter a building.Shared: parking, locationActive
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About Smarking
Smarking is a group of hyper-driven MIT PhDs, data scientists, engineers, transportation experts, and battle-tested business professionals working to solve the notorious parking problem via a unique enterprise approach. Smarking aims to enable highly efficient urban mobility by digitizing parking spaces and distributing parking inventory dynamically, in order to get the world ready for the connected, shared, and autonomous future. Backed by top VCs like Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures, Smarking has brought its solution to over 2,500 parking locations across North America. For the first time, cities, parking asset owners, and parking operators can make data-driven decisions easily. Smarking also launched the industry’s first fully automatic dynamic pricing engine, producing 40%-400% revenue uplifts for online sales at at parking locations Chicago, NYC, Boston, and many other cities.
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Smarking: questions
Which YC batch was Smarking in?
Smarking was in Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch (W15).
Is Smarking still active?
Y Combinator lists Smarking as acquired.
Where is Smarking based?
Smarking lists San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote as its location on YC's directory.
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