Uber, Zoox, Nexar, Starship & DoorDash Head to Curbivore 2026
Super Early Bird pricing ends tomorrow - join more amazing partners in April
We are three months away from Curbivore 2026 — bringing mobility and delivery’s most interesting thinkers to the Downtown LA Arts District on April 16th and 17th. We’re delighted to announce our 2026 Launch Partners, marquee brands truly driving the industry forward: DoorDash, Fastport Honda, Uber, Nexar, Zoox, Gridwise Analytics, CurbIQ, Starship, AirGarage, GetScale, Ualett and Tranzito.
This is your chance to meet with the industry’s brightest minds at our best rate of the year: $195 Super Early Bird Pricing ends tomorrow! (Alternatively, reach out to learn more about joining us as a partner.)
Meet Our 2026 Launch Partners
DoorDash (NASDAQ: DASH) is one of the world's leading local commerce platforms that helps businesses of all kinds grow and innovate, connects consumers to the best of their neighborhoods, and gives people fast, flexible ways to earn. Since its founding in 2013, DoorDash has expanded to more than 40 countries, using technology and logistics to shape the future of local commerce and broaden access to opportunity. With a growing international presence that now includes Deliveroo and Wolt, DoorDash combines global scale with local expertise to serve communities around the world.
Uber's mission is to create opportunity through movement. We started in 2010 to solve a simple problem: how do you get access to a ride at the touch of a button? More than 68 billion trips later, we're building products to get people closer to where they want to be. By changing how people, food, and things move through cities, Uber is a platform that opens up the world to new possibilities.
Fastport, a venture from the Honda New Business Innovation Lab, is dedicated to reinventing last-mile urban logistics through innovative micromobility solutions. Fastport provides companies with revolutionary micromobility solutions to enhance urban logistics including delivery operations while promoting efficiency and reliability.
Based in Foster City, CA, Zoox is reinventing personal transportation–building a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road. At the core of its vision is a purpose-built robotaxi that offers the world a better way to ride. Through a combination of cutting-edge technology and a focus on the rider experience, Zoox is transforming urban mobility with its comprehensive and cohesive autonomous ride-hailing service.
By digitizing curbside regulations, CurbIQ helps cities better understand how their curbs are working today, and gives them modern tools to improve operations in the future.
GetScale offers pay-for-performance recruiting for the largest gig and hourly workforces in North America. They convert and retain over 100,000 workers each year through one-on-one outreach at scale.
Nexar turns cars into vision sensors to understand the world. Its platform powers vision-connected services and apps at scale, making new vision-based applications for better driving powered by a crowd-sourced vision feed. Using anonymous, aggregated data captured from this network, Nexar has developed a portfolio of vision-based data services for the autonomous vehicle industry and public and private sector partners to make roadways safer and more efficient.
Gridwise Analytics delivers actionable gig mobility insights to gig platforms, retailers, and investors, giving them a deep understanding of unit economics, customer pricing trends, driver earnings fluctuations, and the performance of retail brands on these platforms.
Starship Technologies is revolutionizing deliveries with autonomous robots. The robots are designed to deliver food, groceries and packages locally in minutes. The delivery robots have traveled millions of miles and completed seven million autonomous deliveries around the world.
Ualett® is a dedicated service app, designed for independent contractors (drivers, deliveries, micro-businesses) seeking a seamless solution for managing their accounts receivables. Ualett® facilitates the purchase of your business-generated accounts receivables through a user-friendly sales and purchase agreement. Whether you're a GIG worker, self-employed individual, freelancer, micro business owner, rideshare or taxi driver, or even in the delivery or truck driving business, Ualett® is here to streamline your financial processes and support your success.
Tranzito helps public agencies integrate new mobility into their smart cities future. Our open-ecosystem approach seamlessly integrates the best partners and technologies to offer a customized solution.
AirGarage is a technology-forward parking operator, focused on improving the 30% of downtown U.S. real estate dedicated to parking. Our mission is to transform single-use parking spaces into dynamic, multi-use hubs.
Curbivore is a call to rethink last mile delivery, urban mobility, restaurants & retailing, and civic tech. Join us!
HOT INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP
More than a Wing and a prayer? Wing and Walmart’s drone delivery ambitions are really taking off, with the plans to cover 150 stores over the next year, enough to serve 40M Americans. By 2027 they want to expand to 270 locations, and unlike previous launches in low-density locales like Atlanta and North Carolina, this expansion aims to serve denser cities like Miami and LA.
What would it take to make American transit great? About $229 billion annually, according to Transportation for America, representing a 2.5X increase from current spending. The group finds that the average U.S. city has only 27 transit vehicles per 100k residents, as compared to 133 for world-class cities.
The Second Ave saga continues… NYC’s century-long plan to build a subway up and down Second Avenue has taken a new twist, literally. While the state is currently expanding the line northwards towards 125th street, the new plan would ditch a previous commitment to expand the line south towards the LES and Financial District, instead continuing west through Harlem, linking a number of existing lines (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, C, B, D) that lack east-west transfers.
C.R.E.A.M — Consultants Ruin Everything Around Me: Sad news out of the Pacific Northwest, where plans to replace the I-5 bridge over Portland’s Willamette River have climbed to $12.2-17.7 billion, with possible contingencies bringing it as high as $19B. As the highway expansion was originally budgeted at $4.8B, this revelation is so embarrassing that it required a FOIA to learn about. While the consultants running the project have been unable to contain costs, they have managed to feast while doing so: their budgets have grown at 6X the rate of the overall project.
A few good links: You love to see it — PopWheels’ batteries powering an NYC food cart. Relatedly, NYC mulls expanding street vending permits. Kodiak and Bosch collab on AV sensors. Kroger and Uber Eats expand nationwide partnership. Tesla’s European sales in free-fall. The Next Mile Coalition launches Micromobility Roadmap to improve two-wheeler safety and mode share in NYC. Wow actual new concrete for curbs: improvements come to Santa Monica and West LA. Brightline hires ex-Eurostar head to build LA-Vegas HSR.
The newsletter will be off next week as I join my friends at Automotive Ventures for their highly anticipated Future of Mobility Conference in Atlanta. Don’t forget to grab your Curbivore tickets!
- Jonah Bliss & The Curbivore Crew