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Websitecarticipate.com
CategoryMobile
Phone415-912-1221
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Employees3
Founded5/08

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San Francisco
3720 Scott Street
Unit 104
San Francisco, CA, 94123
USA

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Angel, 5/08
$130k

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Carticipate

Carticipate on the iPhone is the first ride sharing application on a location aware mobile platform and is available as a free download on Apple’s App Store on iTunes.

The Company is building a location based mobile social network for ride sharing, ride combining, and car pooling, an activity which the company refers to as “carticipation.”

Environmental concern and the price of gasoline is changing behavior where carticipating is becoming a necessity for an increasing number of people. Ride sharing and car pooling has been, up to this point, opportunistic since it isn’t practical to call or email several people every time one wants to share a ride, especially on short notice.

Location-based smart phones and social networks are colliding with a rise in fuel prices driving the carticipation model where social transportation will compliment and augment public transportation.

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  • 8/3/08 — Carticipate V 1.0 alpha launched on the iPhone App Store.

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Websitecarticipate.com
StageLive
Launch DateOctober 23, 2008
Tags social-network, rideshare, carpool, dynamic-ridesharing, dynamic-carpooling, carpooling, ridesharing, energy, environmental, green, transportation, gasoline

Carticipate is the first location based carpool application on a mobile platform and is available on the iPhone. The download is free and allows users to indicate where they are going and when, broadcast this information, and allow others in the same area (with iPhones) going in the same direction to find each other.

The application is currently geared for those who want to ride share or carpool dynamically within their own small groups, friends or family since the number of people on the network is still limited.

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Steffen Frost - December 15, 2008 at 2:22am
Hi Matt, thanks for the suggestions. Wanted to let you know we are working on it and expect to make announcements soon.
Matt Geller - September 17, 2008 at 2:20pm
Great app, great idea! Hopefully you're planning on making an interactive social website to compliment the app. Matching people up, making ride share friends and scheduling will help make this a success. You could also make an app for use on facebook. Good luck, I hope this turns out to be a success.

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  2. Find a carpool buddy with Carticipate (theappleblog.com) [edit]
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