Smarking
YC W15 · Acquired · Digitize $655B parking industry
Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 Insight Data ScienceShared: data scientist, phds, engineerInactiveAI, Data | AI, Data | Inactive | YCW11 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 AutopassShared: parking space, operatorNot statedOther | Other | Not stated | 500 GlobalGA 30 |
 DucktrainShared: efficient urban, transportation, mobilityNot statedOther | Other | Not stated | Plug and Play |
 DatloShared: data scientist, analyticsActiveData | Data | Active | YCS21 |
 MitoShared: data scientist, engineer, enterpriseActiveAI, Data, Devtools | AI, Data, Devtools | Active | YCS20 |
 Rapida.AIShared: data scientistNot statedAI | AI | Not stated | Antler2023 |
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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.
- YC batch
- W15 · Winter 2015
- Status, per YC
- Acquired
- Category
- AI, Data
- Team size
- 17
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
- Checked
- 1h ago
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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