Seven Dimensions

1. Proximity

2. Community Network

3. Business Model

4. Mobile Platform

5. GTM Strategy

6. Marketplace

7. Brand Story

Our Concept and Strategy

We’re building a first of its kind “community network”. It will make ridesharing an intrinsic part of everyone’s day. Our early trip drivers have already used the Roam™ app to map thousands of local car trips totalling tens of thousands of miles. Soon they will give rides to people they know, who are heading in the same direction at the same time. We’ll enable these shared rides across seven dimensions (see dropdowns).

Our business model is proprietary, confidential and layered. In the first layer, we pay our trip drivers $0.20 per mile to drive to where they already go.  In the second layer, we'll also pay them this amount for every additional occupant in their car, and their riders will each pay us $0.25 per mile. Since trip drivers and their riders always choose each other, we’re confident these first two layers will lead to many shared rides, given that trip drivers never go out of their way.

Powered by AI, our Roam™ app aligns to trip drivers' schedules and routes, and makes it easy and rewarding for them to give rides. Everyone will immediately save money. And over time, everyone will also save time and save our climate, while strengthening their connections to neighbors, coworkers, shoppers, schoolmates, parishioners, etc. Every location will become more of a community, and this will happen more quickly for locations that actively participate.

By accepting each other's ride offers and requests, trip drivers and their riders will increase the occupancy and spontaneity of their car trips. And we will accelerate these by revealing additional layers of our business model so that increasingly, trips turn profitable. And the significant cost savings we offer - up to 75% for those who mostly drive and 95% for those who only ride - will enable us to expand our service globally.

Our Traction

In September, we launched the first version of our iOS Roam™ app – a tool for mapping local trips – testing first with our internal team. A few weeks later, we began testing with friends and family. And then we began external testing.
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We have continually improved how people join the Roam™ community. And now our early users are starting to grow it. Today, those who drive are mapping their local car trips and starting to share our Roam™ app with their neighbors, coworkers, and others nearby, who also mostly drive. Riders will come later.
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In the first 6 months, early trip drivers mapped over 38K miles of driving. Achieving repeat usage of our app will soon turn overlapping routes into ride offers and ride requests. This will lead to steady growth in shared rides. We currently have 78 active drivers who have mapped 4,346 car trips totalling 38,756 miles. And our 2025 waitlist has 650+ people ready to download our app.

Our Experience and Team

Each of us has “lived” in our problem space for a long time. Vivek has spent 20 years applying tech to strengthening communities. And Jan and his former cofounders have each spent 6 years as the founding team of RRive, a highly innovative carpooling startup in Germany.

Vivek drove almost 800 Uber trips as research (2014 through 2019). Rrive completed 45,000+ driven miles and 9,000+ ridden miles (2023, 2024).

We’re based in Silicon Valley and Koblenz, Germany. We share a common mission and vision, and are determined to apply our deep and complementary skills to achieve them. Join us as we navigate the road ahead, and create a future driven by you.

Join Us. We envision a future driven by you.