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Smarking

Digitize $655B parking industry

Acquired

About

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.

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Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Team size
17 employees
YC batch
Winter 2015
Status
Acquired
Stage
Early stage

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Questions and answers

What does Smarking do?

Digitize $655B parking industry

Where is Smarking based?

San Francisco, CA, United States

How many people work at Smarking?

17 employees, according to the company profile.

Has Smarking raised money?

There are no funding rounds for Smarking in our data.

What are the alternatives to Smarking?

Similar startups: TRM Labs, Gecko Robotics, and Airbyte.