Western Canada’s largest city-to-city rideshare platform opens an office in Kingston to provide affordable transport for locals and students on the 401 highway between Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa and MontrĂ©al. Kingston, ON: Poparide today announced it has opened an office in Kingston at The Sanctuary coworking space to support its expansion in Ontario. The platform launched in Vancouver, …
Last Friday we threw a party at our office in Vancouver to celebrate Poparide reaching 50,000 members. We had friends, members, partners and investors show up and we had a blast! As I was looking at the people in the room, I realized how unlikely it would be for them to meet under normal circumstances. Our …
Peer-to-peer Ridesharing Platform Poparide Expands Between the Bow Valley and Calgary Canmore, AB: Poparide, Western Canada’s largest intercity ridesharing platform, announces it is expanding its service between the Bow Valley and Calgary. Poparide boasts 45,000 registered users who have shared over 2,000,000 km since the service launched in December 2014. Poparide lets drivers offer empty seats …
We’ve partnered with Mobi Shaw Go in Vancouver to provide Poparide members with discounts on bike sharing. Poparide members receive a discount on their 1 year membership.
We’ve partnered with Rack Attack Vancouver to offer a 20% discount for Poparide members that have driven at least one passenger.
Since we launched in December 2014, a lot of our users have asked if they could invest in our business, Poparide. In 2015, legislation came into effect in Canada that allows selling of shares to “the crowd”. We thought: this is perfect, we can raise funds directly from our own users! In the Spring of 2016, …
We have come a long way since the early days of HitchWhistler back in November 2010, the first version of our website to help people share rides to Whistler during the ski season. Between 2010 and 2014, HitchWhistler gathered 10,000 users and that’s when we decided to scale the service and make it a business. …
We’ve partnered with the Squamish Adventure Inn Hostel to provide Poparide members with a 10% discount for a night in Squamish.