Transport mobility

MagicBus

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Our mission is to take cars off the road by making it safe and easy to vanpool in the post Covid world. A vanpool is a group of people who commute together, usually in a shared van. It’s an excellent, cost effective way to commute, used by hundreds of thousands of Americans, but the industry is largely offline. It’s difficult to find, join, and

Overview

Our mission is to take cars off the road by making it safe and easy to vanpool in the post Covid world.

A vanpool is a group of people who commute together, usually in a shared van. It’s an excellent, cost effective way to commute, used by hundreds of thousands of Americans, but the industry is largely offline. It’s difficult to find, join, and start vanpools.

We build software that fixes this, making vanpooling simple and flexible. We believe that in a post Covid world, it will be more important than ever to rethink shared transportation and make it more adaptive.

Our customers are organizations like transit agencies and employers who have existing vanpool fleets. We provide these customers with our SaaS platform that manages their vanpool programs. We capture real time information about open seats, then make those seats available to book through our app. We also make it easy for people to crowdsource and start new vanpools.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Ray Wu

Founder

Product Lead for D2C (Store, Community) at Pokémon GO (Niantic). I led growth at Mayhem.gg (W18, acquired), co-founded MagicBus (W16, ongoing), and worked for early stage VCs as an EIR, a Venture Partner, and an associate.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
18team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

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Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationsite error
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedLos Angeles, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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