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Industry | Service |
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Founded | 2011 |
Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
Key people | Nathalie Criou, co-founder, CEO Mark Melville, co-founder, CTO |
Products | Commute bus services |
Website | www.ridepal.com |
RidePal provides commute bus services for companies and individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area. RidePal works on a collaborative consumption model for buses,[1] with route planning based on riders' votes.[2]
The genesis for RidePal came from CEO Nathalie Criou's experience commuting from San Francisco to her job at Google in Mountain View on Google-provided buses, then losing access to the bus service when she moved to another job.[3]
The cleantech business incubator Greenstart selected RidePal as one of 5 companies out of 152 applicants for its second accelerator program in February 2012.[4][5] In August 2012 RidePal closed a seed investment round of $500,000.[6] Investors included Jeff Clarke, 500 Startups and Lisa Gansky.[7]
In August 2012 RidePal added four new routes to its network.[8]
References
- ^ Garthwaite, Josie. RidePal to Help Bay Area Residents Commute Like Google Employees. New York Times. March 1st, 2012
- ^ Covington, Phil. No Company Commuter Shuttle? Bay Area’s RidePal Has The Answer. Triple Pundit September 21st, 2012
- ^ Nathalie Criou, Ridepal, Woman Entrepreneur GothamGal October 15th, 2012
- ^ Fehrenbacher, Katie. Amidst Hard Times for Greentech, Digital Green Startups Emerge. GigaOM. May 2nd, 2012
- ^ Nathalie Criou’s RidePal is in Greenstart’s Chosen 5. WowElle. February 16th, 2012
- ^ Perez, Sarah. RidePal, The “Google Bus For The Rest Of Us,” Scores $500K From 500 Startups & Others, TechCrunch. September 10th, 2012
- ^ Gansky, Lisa. Post by Lisa Gansky on AngelList. AngelList, September 2012
- ^ Jerphagnon, Olivier. RidePal tunes its story and expands green “perk” to companies in Silicon Valley. Green Frog. August 22nd, 2012