Los Angeles based mobility tech company Swoop raises $3.2 million in seed funding led by Signia Venture Partners, South Park Commons, and a handful of angel investors to build a tech solution for group mobility owners.
Alongside Signia Ventures, a number of high profile investors participated in the financing, including South Park Commons led by their two Managing Partners, Ruchi Sanghvi and Aditya Agarwal, the former CTO of Dropbox, etc.
The fragmented industry of vehicle owners will now be able to effortlessly book, dispatch, track and manage all their rides through Swoop’s SaaS tool.
With more than 100,000 passengers on board, the Swoop team has gained outstanding domain expertise and is on the best path to take the $40B group transportation industry to the next stage and we are excited to be a part of it, says Ed Cluss, Managing Director from Signia Venture Partners.
“I’m fascinated about how operators are still running most of their business with pen and paper”, says Amir Ghorbani, CEO and Co-Founder of Swoop. “I saw a huge opportunity to help these small mom and pop shops, in an under-digitized industry, where no operator has more than 1% market share.
Operators who have started to use Swoop’s technology have seen tremendous changes in their business. Jabula the veteran operator from Los Angeles runs a small shop with 5 vehicles.
“I am most excited about the automated customer communication, vehicle tracking, and finally a central location for payments and bookkeeping. As an operator, you have 100 things to do from making sure the drivers are on time, vehicles are clean, taking bookings, and much more”. What has been pen and paper for the industry is now all on one platform.
With the COVID-19 challenges, there was no group transportation for months, and now Swoop is ready to start helping them strive again. This much-needed software will help them to scale up with more efficiently while increasing their customer satisfaction enormously. Through Swoop’s SaaS tool these small businesses have been able to survive.
SaaS platform, Swoop gained its market expertise through its group transportation market-place and grew 3x in 2019. Individuals and companies are able to book group transportation removing friction and complexity for large events.
Companies such as Google, Nike, and Airbnb use Swoop’s booking platform for their group outings. Swoop then passes on these leads to the operators using its SaaS tool, providing additional value to these local businesses.
Annually, there are over 400M people in the US that rely on chauffeured group transportation services, spending more than $40B on it. However, vehicle utilization for these mostly small local operators is currently at 4.9%.
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