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Embark

Embark is a mobile application designed to make it easy to get around cities using mass transit. Among other features, the iOS and Android application tells users when trains and busses are coming and will send push notifications when services are delayed. With over half a million users and rapid growth, Embark's simple and powerful mobile application is designed to bring urban transportation into the age of the smartphone. Embark is available for twelve major transportation systems in the US an

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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Embark is a mobile application designed to make it easy to get around cities using mass transit. Among other features, the iOS and Android application tells users when trains and busses are coming and will send push notifications when services are delayed. With over half a million users and rapid growth, Embark's simple and powerful mobile application is designed to bring urban transportation into the age of the smartphone. Embark is available for twelve major transportation systems in the US an

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Embark is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Embarkmass transiturban transportationusersAndroidmobile applicationiOS
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Embark

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Expo

match 68

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shared extracted concepts: android, ios; shared product terms: mobile, application, ios, android; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Quo (fka OpenPhone)

match 65

OpenPhone is the modern business phone system. It comes with powerful calling, messaging, and a lightweight CRM. Works great for individuals and teams. It allows you to share a phone number with teammates, like an inbox. Available on Mac, Windows, Web, iOS, and Android.

shared extracted concepts: android, ios; shared product terms: ios, android, powerful, available; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Cover

match 65

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shared extracted concepts: android, ios; shared product terms: android, ios, mobile, application; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Token Transit

match 59

Token Transit puts cities in the center of managing new mobility by providing a complete fare payment platform for public transportation. Token Transit launched our mobile ticketing app in 2016. We now provide payments for transportation in over 200 cities across the United States and Canada with integration into the major third party trip planning apps such as Transit, Moovit and Google Maps.

shared extracted concept terms: transportation; shared product terms: mobile, citie, transit, over; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Remix

match 57

Remix’s mission is to help build more livable cities. Our software helps city planners understand their communities and design transportation systems that serve them. We’ve partnered with over 325 cities across 20 countries on 4 continents — and were continually seeking to grow our impact around the world. Urban planning impacts everything from economic mobility to CO2 emissions, and our platform empowers local governments to transform their transportation systems, design safer streets, and impl

shared product terms: design, around, citie, over; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

SeaMiles

match 32

SeaMiles is the worlds first loyalty rewards programme designed to incentivise seafarers and shore personnel in the form of an easy to use mobile application.

shared product terms: design, easy, mobile, application