Populus

United States - San Francisco, California

• 31/08/2022
• Series A
• $11,000,000

Populus is a platform that helps cities and private mobility providers deliver safe, equitable, and efficient streets through better data and analytics. Trusted by public agencies large and small, the Populus data platform integrates new data on shared services (e.g., carsharing, ride-hailing, bikeshare and scooters) to plan for the future of mobility.

Founded by transportation PhDs from MIT and UC Berkeley, our team combines over 30 years of experience building advanced travel simulations for cities, building public-private partnerships, and transportation enterprise SaaS sales. Our data platform serves as an essential bridge for cities and private mobility operators to work seamlessly together for a better transportation future.

We're hiring! Visit our website for more information and to apply:
https://jobs.lever.co/populus

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Regina Lee ClewlowFounder

United States - San Francisco Bay Area

CEO & Founder of Populus - a data platform for cities to manage the future of mobility. I have a Ph.D. from MIT in transportation systems, a bachelor's degree in computer science, and a master's in civil and environmental engineering from Cornell. Prior to my doctoral work, I co-founded and was the first Executive Director of Engineers for a Sustainable World, an international non-profit that transformed engineering education.

As a transportation researcher at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis, my work developed and harnessed new datasets to measure the adoption of, and impacts of shared-use mobility (ridesharing) and automated/ autonomous vehicles on travel behavior, vehicle purchase, and energy use. My research and commentary on the future of transportation has been featured in publications and media across the world, including The New York Times, NPR, The Economist, and Fortune.

Specialties: startups, business and corporate development, strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, policy analysis, transportation research; research expert and speaker on shared-use mobility, autonomous vehicles, ridesharing, innovative transportation, and the future of mobility.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clewlow/