Pavemint

At Pavemint, our drive is to create a complete parking solution. Solving the dilemma of parking has worldwide implications; it's a big step toward a greener, safer, and happier planet. Parking is a problem we can no longer ignore. When a person makes the decision to travel by car, the journey starts with a sense of order. However, as the driver nears their destination, uncertainty sets in. The driver is often confronted with a series of questions: Where will I park? How much will it cost? How long will it take? The chaos of parking left to chance ends in a binary result: winners and losers. There is an implied sense of scarcity in all of our parking problems. But when we pulled back the veil, we found that most major cities have sufficient real estate dedicated to parking. In Los Angeles, where Pavemint first launched, there are nearly three parking spaces for every registered car in the city. Parking itself is not scarce. What is really lacking is effective management, communication, and software that will intelligently utilize those parking spaces and maximize their value. The only viable solution to a problem of this magnitude is technology. In 2019, two years after we first launched as a peer-to-peer app, we developed a suite of software tools to improve parking operations on a much larger scale. In order to effect the change we envision, we needed to address all levels of the parking equation: the driver, the parking operator, and the destination itself. Thus, Pavemint’s parking management software was conceived, relying on crucial insights we gained through the relationships we had built over the years in the mobility world.