Discover how Dollaride is transforming city transit deserts with EV retrofits, asset-financing for drivers, and a $10M award powering 15K+ riders toward cleaner, more equitable mobility.

My guest today is Su Sanni, Founder of Dollaride, a mobility company for communities underserved by public transit.

In addition, Su is also:

• Venture Partner with Republic
• Fellow with Visible Hands
• Former Cofounder and CEO of WeDidIt, an online fundraising platform for nonprofits

In this episode, we talked about:

• What a transit desert is and how it costs us billions of dollars in lost productivity annually
• The $10M award that Dollaride won from the state of New York
• Their solid customer traction with over 15,000 riders in just one year
• How his solution relates to the micromobility field more broadly
• His origin story and the inspiration for this business
• How their business is evolving from an Uber-like tech platform to an asset-financing model to make EV purchases easier
• The process by which they retrofit commercial vehicles from ICE to EV
• Why it’s so important that he walks his kids to school
• And lots more

Hope you enjoy it.

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