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Waypoint Transit

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Founded 2024Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Waypoint Transit is an AI city planner that generates civil infrastructure studies. Cities spend $50B/year on planning. With Waypoint, cities can generate reports in months rather than years, and at 30% of the cost.

Varun and Ryan met at Stanford, where they graduated with degrees in CS and EE respectively. Before founding Waypoint, Varun worked on AI at Microsoft and Ryan worked on chip design at Apple.

US cities are facing three major crises: congestion, budget deficits, and climate change. At the same time, city governments are understaffed and frequently need to contract work out to expensive consultants. Leveraging recent advancements in AI, we empower cities to reduce their costs, build infrastructure, and respond to problems quickly.

In the United States, state and local governments spend $50B/year on planning. Through automation, we can redefine the existing transportation and urban planning consulting markets.

For more information, visit waypointtransit.com or contact us at contact@waypointtransit.com.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Varun Tandon

Founder/CEO

Co-founder and CEO of Waypoint Transit. Previously, led applied ML initiatives at Microsoft. Worked on diffusion models and LLM/LMMs for flagship Office products, including Copilot, Designer, and PowerPoint. B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Ryan Johnston

Founder/CTO

Co-founder and CTO of Waypoint Transit. Previously, chip design synthesis CAD at Apple. Then developed novel real-time transit signage for his hometown; this project eventually became Waypoint. B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

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