San Francisco Startups List

Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in San Francisco.

28 transportation Startups View all

Parser.run

Data as a service.
Simple, custom web scraping tools for researchers, growth hackers, marketing & sales teams.

Lit Motors - automotive electric vehicles transportation sustainability

Lit Motors

"Sustainable Model-T of the 21st Century
We're making sustainable transportation affordable. By combining the romance and efficiency of a motorcycle with the safety and comfort of a car, we're creating the ultimate urban vehicle. Our vehicle brings safety and hyper-efficiency to two-wheeled vehicles. ...

Loup - mobile transportation public transportation

Loup

Redefining local transportation
Loup is a mobile application where the private car experience meets public transportation. Based in San Francisco and founded in April, 2014, we believe that affordable, convenient, and comfortable local transportation should be available to everyone, not just ...

Upshift - consumer internet transportation collaborative consumption same day delivery

Upshift

Your next car fits in your pocket.
Upshift is driven to enable greater freedom than car ownership using fewer resources to unlock our congested cities, regenerate the planet and turn parking into parks. 88% of people moving to cities don't own cars but they all have smartphones and are increasingly ...

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

Yomama Ventures - music mobile commerce transportation space travel

Yomama Ventures

Small Investment Adventures
We're futurists at heart. We're Time Travel Researchers. It turns out that great entrepreneurs are interested in the future too, and we'd like to work with them to get there. One of the top reasons you should let us invest? You can tell everyone else "Yomama invested ...

SPOKEFLY - mobile marketplaces transportation collaborative consumption

SPOKEFLY

Everyone's bike.
Spokefly is an on-demand bike rental service. Rent an awesome bike to ride from the touch of your phone. One click matches you with the best bike for you to ride right now.

Sidecar - mobile marketplaces social commerce transportation

Sidecar

The world's transportation marketplace
We provide a mobile platform and app that allows people interested in providing transportation to be matched up with people that need rides. In the year we have been active in San Francisco, the transportation landscape has changed completely. We have since ...

RidePal - clean technology communities green transportation

RidePal

Why are you still driving to work?
RidePal is the first and largest network of commuter buses that anyone can ride. RidePal makes it easy for individuals to find convenient rides to work, and enables companies of any size to provide a coveted employee benefit at an affordable price. Our technology ...

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Faraday Bicycles - consumer goods electric vehicles transportation bicycles

Faraday Bicycles

Exceptional electric bicycles.
Faraday Bicycles creates exceptional electric bicycles. Our flagship product - the award-winning Faraday Porteur - is not only the best-looking electric bicycle in the world, but also one of the lightest. At less than 40 pounds, with an assisted range of 20 miles ...

Shuddle - mobile commerce transportation

Shuddle

Scheduled Transportation for Families and More
Shuddle is the first transportation network that provides scheduled rides for busy families. We are backed by an outstanding group of investors and are building a world-class team that will launch an iconic brand to transform the lifestyle of the modern family.

Alta Motors - automotive electric vehicles transportation outdoors

Alta Motors

Faster, prettier, easier motorcycles.
In the $70B global motorcycle market, Alta is leading the shift to electric by building better motorcycles - faster, easier, prettier and cheaper than their gas equivalents. Our first product, the RedShift, has been called "the first electric to demonstrate a clear ...

RelayRides - peer-to-peer marketplaces transportation sharing economy

RelayRides

RelayRides is the world's leading peer-to-peer car rental marketplace, disrupting the $60 billion global car rental industry by connecting vehicle owners whose cars would otherwise be idle with people who need a car. RelayRides has built a vibrant community of ...

Hitch - location based services transportation collaborative consumption Shuttle

Hitch

A fun and affordable way to get around SF by sharing your ride
Hitch is the first on-demand multi-pickup solution--an iOS app offering an extremely affordable (50% of an UberX) and convenient transportation solution. Rather than booking an entire car, you only reserve the amount of seats you need, allowing us to pick up other ...

Mozio - search online travel transportation social travel

Mozio

ITA Software for Local Ground Transportation
Mozio is ITA Software for local ground transportation. We are building the backbone of local ground transportation, integrating into the backend systems of limousines, shuttles, taxis, rideshare and express trains to start, eventually moving into the $400 billion ...

ZIRX - mobile transportation parking

ZIRX

SMART PARKING
ZIRX is the leading on-demand valet and car services company. Through the ZIRX mobile app, consumers can now easily indicate their location and within minutes have a ZIRX agent arrive and valet park their car in a secure garage. While parked, consumers can easily ...

Zendrive - enterprise software automotive transportation insurance companies

Zendrive

Improving driving for everyone with better data and analytics.
Zendrive is committed to improving driving and transportation for everyone through better data and analytics. Every On Demand startup using drivers for rideshare, carshare and for delivering everything from meals to massages is running into the same scaling hassle. ...

TechnoRides - mobile SaaS marketplaces transportation

TechnoRides

end to end logistic platform
In 2012 Uber and Lyft entered the 64 billion worldwide taxi-transportation industry, creating tectonic shifts in the landscape. An industry unchanged in decades was upended. Reaping billions of dollars in equity values, the upstarts appeared to have won. Technorides ...

Lyft - peer-to-peer college campuses transportation collaborative consumption

Lyft

Your friend with a car™
Lyft matches drivers with passengers who request rides through our app for iPhone or Android. This friendly transportation alternative focuses on community, affordability, and convenience. With bright pink mustaches on our cars, you can't miss us — so try Lyft ...

TransitHero - mobile transportation public transportation

TransitHero

Multimodal Urban Transit
Arrive Labs builds software solutions for urban transit challenges. Arrive Labs is the maker of TransitHero, the community-driven Urban Transit App that uses crowdsourced data to guide more efficient transit choices across all available transit options (including ...

Leap Transit - transportation public transportation

Leap Transit

Reinventing urban mass transit
We are reinventing the urban daily commute by building a better bus - and the world's most advanced transit management system in the process. Every day, SF MUNI gives 700,000 rides. And 2.2B ride the bus annually in the top 20 US markets. San Francisco is growing ...

Wingz - peer-to-peer transportation public transportation collaborative consumption

Wingz

Airbnb for Airport Rides. Scheduled & on-time. https://wingz.me
Great drivers...Great cars...Great Wingz! We automate and take the stress of getting to or from the airport. Our mobile and web application serves a growing market of travelers who prefer to schedule rides. We safely completed over 20,000 rides last year, grew ...

Zaznu - mobile marketplaces social commerce transportation

Zaznu

on-demand ridesharing community
Zaznu’s smartphone app matches everyday people in their own car with people nearby for shared rides. It’s a fast, safe and fun way to get around the city, meet new people and keep extra cars off the road. Zaznu is currently operating across 6 cities in Brazil: ...

Carbon - mobile e-commerce transportation logistics

Carbon

Your personal valet, anytime, anywhere
We solve nationwide city parking/congestion once and for all with an on-demand valet service available anytime, anywhere. Despite being a $20billion consumer-driven business, no brand has yet to emerge that has won the hearts and minds of drivers across the country. The ...

Ridejoy - marketplaces bridging online and offline transportation collaborative consumption

Ridejoy

Share rides with friendly people
Ridejoy is a community marketplace for rides ― currently operating all along the West Coast. If you're going on a trip, you can list extra seat space in your car, and if you need to get somewhere, you can find a ride, using our site.

Medlert - health care health care information technology transportation mobile health

Medlert

Scheduling Medical Transportation Easily
Medlert Inc. provides innovative solutions to the medical transport industry. Connecting Crews, Facilities and Dispatch.

Scoot Networks - mobile local electric vehicles transportation

Scoot Networks

Electric Vehicles for Everyone
Using Scoot you can make 30 MPH, one-way trips between any Scoot location in the city, riding an electric motorscooter you activate with your own smartphone. No motorcycle license needed. Rides start at $2. As fast as a taxi and as affordable as the bus, Scoot ...

Luxe - mobile transportation

Luxe

A parking spot in your pocket
Luxe is the modern solution to parking. Using our iPhone or Android app, you can have access to on demand valet service. With a $1M general liability insurance policy, trained and vetted valets, and secure parking lots, we've got parking covered so you can get ...

Postmates - food and beverages marketplaces postal and courier services transportation

Postmates

On Demand Delivery
Postmates is transforming the way local goods move around a city by enabling anyone to get any product delivered in under one hour. Postmates' revolutionary urban logistics & on-demand delivery platform connects customers with local couriers, who purchase and deliver ...

Book A Boat - mobile online travel transportation boating industry

Book A Boat

Uber for boats!
Problem: No simple way to book local boats. Travelers are looking for the fastest way to connect with islands and beautiful local places and spend to much time and money looking for the boat transportation. Solution: Book A Boat is mobile and web app that gives ...

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