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Smarking

Smarking is a group of hyper-driven MIT PhDs, data scientists, engineers, transportation experts, and battle-tested business professionals working to solve the notorious parking problem via a unique enterprise approach. Smarking aims to enable highly efficient urban mobility by digitizing parking spaces and distributing parking inventory dynamically, in order to get the world ready for the connected, shared, and autonomous future. Backed by top VCs like Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures, Smarking

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3566

Smarking is a group of hyper-driven MIT PhDs, data scientists, engineers, transportation experts, and battle-tested business professionals working to solve the notorious parking problem via a unique enterprise approach. Smarking aims to enable highly efficient urban mobility by digitizing parking spaces and distributing parking inventory dynamically, in order to get the world ready for the connected, shared, and autonomous future. Backed by top VCs like Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures, Smarking

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Smarking is classified as AI infrastructure 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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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 Smarking

AI infrastructure · 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.

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match 57

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shared product terms: group, engineer, via, unique; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Rappi

match 49

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shared product terms: connect, venture, back, top; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Modal

match 49

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shared product terms: future, like, back, combinator; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Hingeto

match 49

Hingeto is a technology platform that enables fashion brands & influencers to sell past and future masterpieces with zero inventory risk. We are backed by Y Combinator (W16), Kapor Capital, Cross Culture Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Stanford University / StartX & several angels (including Andrew Iguodala)

shared product terms: enable, future, inventory, back; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

SharpestMinds

match 44

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shared product terms: scientist, engineer, back, group; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Stark Mobility

match 24

The future of transportation is shared.

shared product terms: future, transportation, shar