Elemental Impact

Elemental Impact is a consulting organization established in 2009, dedicated to promoting sustainability and environmental stewardship within the business sector. Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, it focuses on initiatives that encourage waste reduction, recycling, and efficient resource utilization across various industries. By providing resources, tools, and guidance, Elemental Impact assists companies in adopting sustainable practices that enhance operational efficiency and environmental responsibility. The organization emphasizes the importance of equity and access in climate solutions, filling critical gaps in funding innovative climate technologies for real-world applications. Through collaboration, education, and advocacy, Elemental Impact aims to cultivate a culture of sustainability and create a positive impact on the planet.

Danya Hakeem

Managing Director, Portfolio

Dawn Lippert

CEO

Kimberly Morris

Senior Director of Innovation

Mitch Rubin

Director of Innovation

Joshua Stanbro

Deputy Director, Policy Lab

Past deals in Public Transportation

Dollaride

Grant in 2023
Dollaride is a mobility company focused on enhancing transportation access in urban areas, particularly for underserved communities. Drawing inspiration from New York City's informal "dollar vans," which have provided local transport services since the 1980s, Dollaride has developed a digital platform that connects fleet owners, drivers, and passengers. The platform offers a comprehensive operator business dashboard, enabling fleet management, automated fee collection, and features that support territory expansion. By providing technical resources and web assistance, Dollaride empowers operators to manage their fleets transparently and in compliance with regulations. This innovative approach not only enhances the earnings potential for drivers but also allows passengers to conveniently hail rides, thereby improving overall mobility in urban settings. Through its commitment to clean transportation, Dollaride aims to foster the adoption of sustainable practices among small transportation fleet owners and contribute to the green economy.

Dollaride

Venture Round in 2020
Dollaride is a mobility company focused on enhancing transportation access in urban areas, particularly for underserved communities. Drawing inspiration from New York City's informal "dollar vans," which have provided local transport services since the 1980s, Dollaride has developed a digital platform that connects fleet owners, drivers, and passengers. The platform offers a comprehensive operator business dashboard, enabling fleet management, automated fee collection, and features that support territory expansion. By providing technical resources and web assistance, Dollaride empowers operators to manage their fleets transparently and in compliance with regulations. This innovative approach not only enhances the earnings potential for drivers but also allows passengers to conveniently hail rides, thereby improving overall mobility in urban settings. Through its commitment to clean transportation, Dollaride aims to foster the adoption of sustainable practices among small transportation fleet owners and contribute to the green economy.

WhereIsMyTransport

Venture Round in 2020
WhereIsMyTransport Ltd is a mobility technology company focused on providing comprehensive public transport data for megacities in emerging markets. Headquartered in London, with an additional office in Cape Town, the company specializes in digitalizing network information from various modes of public transport across Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe, and South and Southeast Asia. By employing a data collection playbook, WhereIsMyTransport maps both formal and informal transport networks, ensuring data accuracy as these systems evolve. The company's platform serves businesses, municipalities, and citizens, enhancing the public transport experience and facilitating informed decision-making for infrastructure improvements and market entry.

WhereIsMyTransport

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
WhereIsMyTransport Ltd is a mobility technology company focused on providing comprehensive public transport data for megacities in emerging markets. Headquartered in London, with an additional office in Cape Town, the company specializes in digitalizing network information from various modes of public transport across Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe, and South and Southeast Asia. By employing a data collection playbook, WhereIsMyTransport maps both formal and informal transport networks, ensuring data accuracy as these systems evolve. The company's platform serves businesses, municipalities, and citizens, enhancing the public transport experience and facilitating informed decision-making for infrastructure improvements and market entry.

Dollaride

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Dollaride is a mobility company focused on enhancing transportation access in urban areas, particularly for underserved communities. Drawing inspiration from New York City's informal "dollar vans," which have provided local transport services since the 1980s, Dollaride has developed a digital platform that connects fleet owners, drivers, and passengers. The platform offers a comprehensive operator business dashboard, enabling fleet management, automated fee collection, and features that support territory expansion. By providing technical resources and web assistance, Dollaride empowers operators to manage their fleets transparently and in compliance with regulations. This innovative approach not only enhances the earnings potential for drivers but also allows passengers to conveniently hail rides, thereby improving overall mobility in urban settings. Through its commitment to clean transportation, Dollaride aims to foster the adoption of sustainable practices among small transportation fleet owners and contribute to the green economy.

Swiftly

Series A in 2020
Swiftly, Inc. is a technology company focused on enhancing public transportation through its data-driven application designed for transit agencies. The Swiftly platform unifies public transit data across various departments and integrates seamlessly with existing transit hardware. By leveraging billions of data points and advanced algorithms, Swiftly improves transit system performance, service reliability, and provides real-time passenger information. The company's offerings include GTFS and TransXchange data, operator information, on-board data, and historical analytics, serving the needs of transportation agencies, residents, and government entities. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Swiftly was previously known as Swyft Technologies, Inc. before rebranding in January 2016.

Numina

Venture Round in 2019
Numina's standalone sensing and data platform uses computer vision to measure how people and objects move through the public right-of-way. Numina is purpose-built to empower urban planners and municipal DoTs with better data to design more walkable, bikeable, and efficient places. Simultaneously, Numina provides this intelligence to the private sector as the data backbone for urban automation. Numina has been serving planners and cities since 2014, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Clinton Foundation, SOSV, MINI BMW, 500 Startups, and others. Numina is built with ❤ in St. Louis, MO and New York, NY.

Proterra

Venture Round in 2019
Proterra Inc. designs and manufactures zero-emission electric buses, including its 35-foot and 40-foot Catalyst models, aimed at reducing operating costs and delivering clean transportation across North America. The company offers a comprehensive range of services, including pre-delivery consultations, training programs, mid-life inspections, and vehicle electrification solutions. Proterra also produces batteries, chargers, and drive trains, alongside a connected vehicle intelligence system. Their electric buses are built to accommodate various urban and regional transit needs and are noted for their durability and energy efficiency, as demonstrated through independent testing. By providing fleet planning, charging infrastructure, telematics, and energy management solutions, Proterra helps clients transition away from fossil fuels. Established in 2004 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, the company has additional offices in South Carolina and California, contributing to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption through its innovative technologies.

Bandwagon

Seed Round in 2014
Bandwagon facilitates real-time sharing of taxis and hired vehicles. Through web and mobile apps, they connect people who are traveling in the same direction. Shared trips are affordable, fun, and environmentally-friendly. Bandwagon builds transportation software and systems. Their primary area of expertise is building products that increase the efficiency of for-hire vehicle fleets, and increase the connectivity of these fleets with traditional transit systems. Bandwagon also offers transportation strategy consulting to large organizations, municipalities and transportation management agencies. Bandwagon was inspired by an ethic of repair and a belief that cities are fundamentally collaborative & creative enterprises. The Company’s mission is to create products and services that increase urban access to mobility and reduce energy costs and pollution, by reorganizing existing transportation infrastructure. Their products provide efficient access to traditional transportation networks where they exist, and create new mobility where traditional transportation infrastructure is underdeveloped.

Actionfigure

Grant in 2014
Actionfigure is the leading global provider of transportation intelligence solutions, unlocking the value of location and enabling people to make great transportation choices. Actionfigure works with workplaces, and owners and operators of commercial and multifamily real estate to support employees, tenants, residents, and guests with live transportation intelligence. Our products include industry-pioneering screens, applications, and custom integrations to provide the best-fit solutions for our partners. Actionfigure’s platform curates more than 3,000 data feeds to provide accurate, real-time information about public, private, and shared transportation options. Our proprietary AI algorithms provide best-fit transportation and multimodal trip recommendations, and our software provides unique, actionable insights on transportation and real estate. Actionfigure unlocks the value of location in ways not available anywhere else.
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