What Cabin does

Cabin is a San Francisco-based private hospitality transportation company founded in 2016 that positions itself as the first operator in its category, with a stated mission of helping travelers make the most of every waking and sleeping moment. The company operates the website ridecabin.com and runs with a very small team of 1–10 employees, consistent with an early-stage startup still validating product-market fit in the sleeper or overnight transit category. Its functional offering centers on converting low-value transit hours into productive or restful time, targeting travelers who view intercity movement as usable time rather than dead time.

Cabin is led by co-founders Gaetano Crupi (CEO and Board Member) and Tom Currier (CTO). The company has raised three funding rounds between 2017 and 2019: a $3.3 million round in June 2017 led by Pathfinder alongside 1517 Fund, BoxGroup, FJ Labs, Floodgate, StartX, SV Angel, Swell Partners, and Brainchild Holdings; a follow-on in May 2018 with J-Angels, Long Venture Partners, and UpHonest Capital; and a third round in April 2019 led by Prime Movers Lab with Backend Capital and Actions Capital (fka K50 Ventures). The investor mix — including future-of-mobility and frontier-tech backers — signals thesis-driven interest in transforming intercity travel rather than purely incremental plays on existing bus or rail services.

No commercial-scale metrics such as bookings, riders, route count, GMV, pricing tiers, or revenue are disclosed in the available data, and the firm's commercial go-to-market mechanics are not documented beyond its direct website channel. The combination of small headcount, undisclosed financials, and a capital-intensive mobility category means operational scale, unit economics, and current growth signals cannot be reliably inferred from the available evidence.

Name

Cabin

Legal name

Xoilac TV

Website

https://ridecabin.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cabin is a San Francisco-based hospitality transportation startup founded in 2016 that aims to convert intercity travel time into productive or restful hours for individual travelers, operating a small team of 1–10 employees via ridecabin.com.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospitality Transportation / Intercity Sleeper Bus Service

NAICS

Charter Bus Industry (48551)

SIC

Local & Suburban Transit & Interurban Hwy Passenger Trans (4100)

akta.pro primary industry

Long-Distance/Overnight Charter Coaches (THAIAIAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Intercity Coach Leasing & Rental Providers (TLAFAFAK), Economy/Conventional Scheduled Intercity Bus Services (THAIADAE)

Keywords

• Hospitality transportation
• Sleeper bus service
• Overnight intercity travel
• Mobile sleep pods
• Ground transit accommodations

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Advertising revenue: The platform generates revenue through advertising, including banner ads and promotional content displayed on the website.
2. Affiliate/Referral marketing: The site features promotions for online betting platforms (such as 8XBET) and receives referral commissions for directing users to these gambling sites.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Cabin operates scheduled overnight intercity bus routes outfitted with custom sleeping pods/berths, selling tickets to individual travelers seeking restful long-distance ground transportation. The product merges intercity bus service with hotel-style sleeping accommodations so passengers can travel overnight and arrive without needing a separate hotel stay.

Product overview

Xoilac TV (also known as Xoilac86.tv) is a single unified product offering - a comprehensive Vietnamese sports streaming platform. The platform provides live football streaming with multiple commentator options (BLV), match schedules, live scores, league standings, video highlights, sports news, betting odds, and expert analysis. It aggregates content from various global football leagues and tournaments, offering Vietnamese-language commentary and comprehensive match data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cabin Overnight Sleeper Bus Service

Quantifiable outcome

• Complete match coverage available 1 hour before match start

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• 8XBETChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor8XBET is promoted as the top recommended betting platform on Xoilac TV. The partnership involves promotional placements on the website with referral links directing users to 8XBET for sports betting services. Xoilac TV features 8XBET advertisements prominently on its pages and includes direct betting links.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Megabus: Scheduled low-cost intercity coach operator in the U.S. Operates many of the same Northeast and Midwest city pairs that Cabin targets, competing on price.
• Vonlane: Premium chartered motorcoach service on Texas and Southeast corridors with reserved single-seat layouts. Closest direct analog to Cabin's premium overnight hospitality-on-bus positioning.
• FlixBus: Largest intercity scheduled coach operator in the U.S./Europe. Competes with Cabin on the same intercity bus corridors and is a direct substitute for Cabin's overnight charter product, especially as FlixBus expands premium tiers.
• RedCoach: Premium motorcoach operator in Florida and select interstate corridors with single-seat business class product. Direct functional analog to Cabin's premium overnight bus positioning.

Emerging players

• OurBus: Tech-enabled intercity bus platform using partner carriers to serve secondary city pairs. Comparable to Cabin's tech-led, partnership-driven approach to intercity coach service.
• Vamo: Tech-enabled premium charter bus platform operating in select U.S. corridors. Comparable as an emerging peer pursuing a premium, tech-led chartered bus experience.

Broad incumbents

• Greyhound: Largest U.S. intercity scheduled bus network. Operates broadly across all corridors Cabin targets and represents the dominant incumbent whose standard product Cabin is repositioning against.
• Amtrak: National passenger rail operator with overnight sleeper rail services on long-distance routes. Competes with Cabin for overnight intercity travelers seeking sleep-grade journeys.

Regional players

• BusBud: Intercity bus booking platform primarily focused on Canadian and North American routes. Comparable as a distribution and discovery layer for intercity bus operators including premium/charter services.

Others

• Wanderu: Intercity ground-travel search and booking aggregator covering bus and rail. Adjacent to Cabin's ecosystem as a demand and price-discovery channel for premium bus products.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ridecabin
• Facebookfacebook.com/ridecabin
• Instagraminstagram.com/xoilactvnet

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors15 records

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M&A

Investments

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