16 Facts About Moovit

Moovit is an Israel-based mobility as a service provider and journey planner app.

Moovit uses both crowdsourced and official public transit data to provide route planning to users as well as transit data APIs to transit companies, cities, and transit agencies.

Originally called Tranzmate, Moovit was founded as a startup in Israel in 2012 by developers Nir Erez, Roy Bick, and Yaron Evron.

In 2013, Moovit went on to receive $28 million of funding from venture-capital Sequoia Capital, BRM Group, and Gemini Funds.

In March 2014, Moovit launched a "community editor" allowing volunteer editors to generate schedule and map data, providing transit data for areas in which no data is officially available to app developers.

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In 2016, Moovit was awarded The Atlas Award by the Ayn Rand Institute.

In February 2018, Moovit raised another $50 million in its Series-D funding round.

In May 2020, Moovit was acquired by Intel for $900 million and has integrated with Mobileye.

Moovit has been named as the official mobility partner for several sporting events and sports teams.

Moovit was the official mobility app for the 2016 Olympic Games, UEFA Euro 2016, and the 2018 Asian Games.

Moovit has been named as the official mobility app of AS Roma, Inter Milan, and Olympique de Marseille.

In October 2019, Moovit began collaborating with Waze to integrate Waze's carpooling service into Moovit's service in the US, Brazil, Mexico and Israel.

In June 2017, Moovit announced a new tool for city authorities and transport agencies called 'Moovit urban mobility analytics' that uses population movement data and analytics to provide visual insights on public transport.

In January 2019, Moovit announced TimePro, a cloud-based GPS-based AVL solution for transit agencies.

In October 2019, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that a mobility app will be developed by Moovit, offering autonomous vehicle rides for attendees of the 2020 North American International Auto Show in Detroit in June 2020.

Moovit publicly apologized and maintained that its team works hard to filter out and remove inaccurate information "as soon as we become aware of them".