Bandwagon

What Bandwagon does

Bandwagon is a New York-based private startup founded in 2009 that facilitates taxi sharing, per firmographic The company operates as a small team of 1-10 employees and is structured as a for-profit private entity. Its core product centers on enabling riders to share taxi fares, functioning as a two-sided marketplace between passengers seeking shared rides and taxi drivers willing to pick up additional passengers along a route.

The company's documented strategic history is concentrated in the 2011-2014 window. It received initial capital from ACRE in 2011, raised $300,000 from New York Venture Partners in December 2013, and closed a $425,000 round in November 2014 from Elemental Impact and New York Angels, per the funding round timeline. Its founder is Alex Pasternack, and David Mes is listed as a director. Total disclosed funding is approximately $725,000 across four recorded events.

No revenue, pricing model, customer base, product roadmap, or operational metrics are disclosed beyond the firmographic layer. No patents, trademarks, awards, regulatory actions, or named customer relationships are documented. Beyond the November 2014 round, there is no evidence of subsequent capital raises, product launches, partnerships, or headcount changes, leaving the company's current operating status ambiguous. A large volume of scraped content aggregated under a single source ID describes an unrelated online slot gaming platform (OLXTOTO) operating in Indonesia under SGD pricing; this material appears to be misattributed to the Bandwagon name and does not reflect the taxi-sharing business described in firmographic and leadership disclosures.

Name

Bandwagon

Website

https://bandwagon.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bandwagon is a New York-based private startup founded in 2009 that facilitates taxi sharing for individual riders, operating with a small team and having raised approximately $725,000 in disclosed seed funding between 2011 and 2014.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Taxi Sharing / Ride Pooling Services

NAICS

Taxi and Ridesharing Services (48531), Taxi and Ridesharing Services (485310)

SIC

Local & Suburban Transit & Interurban Hwy Passenger Trans (4100), Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

Ride-Hailing & Taxi Aggregation Platforms (BPAMAIAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Shared Taxi / Ride-Pooling Taxi Operators (TLAFAHAL)

Keywords

• Taxi sharing
• Ride pooling
• Shared mobility
• Urban transportation
• Commuter matching

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Revenue model

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Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Bandwagon is a New York-based taxi sharing facilitator founded in 2009. It connects individual commuters who are traveling in similar directions so they can share a single taxi ride and split the fare, reducing per-rider transportation costs while keeping the door-to-door convenience of taxi travel.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bandwagon Taxi Sharing Service

Named customers6 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

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Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Arro: Direct peer: Arro is a taxi-hailing and payment app targeting NYC and other urban taxi markets, offering app-based dispatch similar to Bandwagon's stated taxi-sharing platform.
• Curb (formerly Taxi Magic): Direct peer: Curb is a taxi aggregation and e-hail platform that lets riders hail and pay for yellow-cab and licensed taxi rides via mobile app, mirroring Bandwagon's taxi-sharing/aggregation positioning.
• Gett: Direct peer: Gett is an on-demand ground transportation app focused on taxi and black-car hail, serving urban riders through driver networks and corporate accounts, comparable to Bandwagon's taxi-sharing mission.
• Flywheel: Direct peer: Flywheel is a taxi e-hail and payments platform that connects riders to licensed taxi drivers via a mobile app, directly analogous to Bandwagon's taxi aggregation and sharing model.
• Via Transportation: Direct peer: Via operates shared-ride on-demand transit services in cities worldwide, pooling multiple passengers into shared rides — the closest conceptual analog to Bandwagon's 'taxi sharing' value proposition.

Broad incumbents

• Lyft: Broad incumbent: Lyft is a major on-demand ride-hailing platform offering shared-ride products (Lyft Shared) that compete with Bandwagon's taxi-pooling model across overlapping urban passenger markets.
• Uber: Broad incumbent: Uber operates the largest ride-hailing platform globally with UberPool shared rides, dominating the on-demand passenger mobility category that Bandwagon's taxi-sharing product addresses.

Emerging players

• Hailo (myTaxi / Free Now legacy): Emerging player: Hailo was a taxi-hailing app launched in NYC and London that competed directly with Bandwagon's taxi aggregation thesis; the brand was merged into Free Now, illustrating the consolidation pressure on taxi-only apps.
• Split (fare-splitting): Emerging player: Split offers fare-splitting for taxi and ride-hailing trips via mobile app, a narrower overlap with Bandwagon's shared-ride concept focused on the payment/allocation layer of taxi sharing.
• Scoop Technologies: Emerging player: Scoop operated a carpooling platform for commuters, an alternative shared-mobility model addressing underutilized vehicle capacity — comparable in spirit to Bandwagon's shared-ride efficiency thesis.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hibandwagon

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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