Clean Mobility for Transit Deserts: Dollaride’s $10M Win + 15K Riders in Year One — Su Sanni, Founder

Discover how Dollaride is transforming city transit deserts with EV retrofits, asset-financing for drivers, and a $10M award powering 15K+ riders toward cleaner, more equitable mobility.My guest today is Su Sanni, Founder of Dollaride, a mobility company for communities underserved by public transit.In addition, Su is also:Venture Partner with RepublicFellow with Visible HandsFormer Cofounder and CEO of WeDidIt, an online fundraising platform for nonprofitsIn this episode, we talked about:What a transit desert is and how it costs us billions of dollars in lost productivity annuallyThe $10M award that Dollaride won from the state of New YorkTheir solid customer traction with over 15,000 riders in just one yearHow his solution relates to the micromobility field more broadlyHis origin story and the inspiration for this businessHow their business is evolving from an Uber-like tech platform to an asset-financing model to make EV purchases easierThe process by which they retrofit commercial vehicles from ICE to EVWhy it’s so important that he walks his kids to schoolAnd lots moreHope you enjoy it.And give Su a shout-out on LinkedIn, Slack, or Twitter by sharing this podcast with your people.---Entrepreneurs for Impact is on a mission to help climate innovators grow faster with new investment capital, share best practices among peers, expand their networks, and reach their full potential.Our two offerings include:Climate CEO Mastermind Peer Groups — Our invite-only cohorts of 12 executives catalyze personal development and business growth via monthly meetings, annual retreats, and 1:1 coaching and strategy calls. Today’s highly curated Mastermind members represent over $8B in market cap or assets under management.Newsletter — A 3-minute weekly summary of climate tech, startups, better habits, and deep work.Programs are led by Dr. Chris Wedding — 4x founder, $1B of investment experience, and Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill professor, with 70,000+ professional students taught, 25 years of meditation, an obsession with constant improvement, and far too many mistakes to keep to himself.