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Can Sustainable Delivery Be a Sustainable Business? Delivery Mates' Kevin Savage Makes the Case
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few months we’ve had the distinct pleasure of digging deep in the world of sustainable delivery: we’ve kicked the tires on the new H...
Lyft’s Not Content With Second Place in the Robotaxi Race
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As robotaxis race towards becoming a regular part of our mobility landscape, it at first looked like Lyft had no interest in joining the competition, ...
Can Corporations Nudge Workers Towards Greener Commuting Options?
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A city can spend all the money in the world on making its streets multi-modal, on transit investments and the like, but if all the jobs are still loca...
Senator Scott Wiener Discusses YIMBY's Big Win: SB79
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dense housing and public transit: two great tastes that taste better together. You’d think this classic combo would be a no-brainer, as building mid...
Can Portable Benefits Improve Gig Work? With DoorDash's Max Rettig
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Managing policy for DoorDash is no mean feat; the globe-spanning 3PD often finds itself interfacing with cities across all sorts of issues: traffic / ...
Getting Ebikes Into the Hands of Hard-Working Couriers
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Delivery is tough work, especially in dense, urban environments. Couriers and policymakers often find themselves pulled between competing priorities: ...
Is Hydrogen Finally the Fuel of the Future? MH2Fund Is Betting on It
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hydrogen is having its moment—not because of hype, but because the economics and demand finally line up. Heavy industry, shipping, and aviation are ...
You Want People That Found Something Secret - Steve Greenfield, Automotive Ventures
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Zag Talk, I’m joined by Steve Greenfield, General Partner at Automotive Ventures. Steve knows the mobility industry insi...
Risky Opportunities: Why Insurance Is the Most Important Component of Any Mobility Startup
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Gita Gupta, VP, Director of Emerging Technology and Digital Economies, Global Technology Risk Practice at ...
From the "Arson Box" to Revocable Consent Permits & Equity Capital
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you step out onto a street corner in NYC these days, you’ll instantly notice the city is buzzing with delivery workers: couriers zip across stree...
Seed Strapping The Urban Infrastructure Powering Ecommerce, Delivery & LEVs
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From delivery bots, to cargo bikes, scooters and LEVs… our streets have become a hodgepodge of busy little machines, transporting goods and people t...
You Can't 'Move Fast & Break Things' in Mobility
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Startup founders often believe so deeply in the mission of their business that they struggle to see how the world could exist any other way. They adop...
Introducing Zag Talk - Coco's Zach Rash Shares Path to Global Expansion
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your favorite mobility and delivery podcast is back, but with a whole new twist! Jonah Bliss and Greg Lindsay have teamed up with Zag Daily to bring y...
Zag Daily's Ben Hubbard Knows How to Pitch the Future of Mobility
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Few publications have their fingers on the pulse of new mobility quite like Zag Daily. In just the past month, the UK-based publisher has tracked the ...
How Joe Cohen Raised $9M for His Infinite Machine
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At this point it’s not exactly news that it’s a tough fundraising environment out there for new mobility startups, especially ones with a hardware...
Tatiana Peralta Quirós on the Journey from ITDP to MobilityVC
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tatiana Peralta Quirós has had quite the impressive career: educated at both MIT and Harvard, thoughtful research works with the likes of Gensler and...
Connexion CEO Aaryn Nania's New Partnership with Uber
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you think about the transportation world as “new mobility” and “old mobility,” it often seems that despite all the innovation of the past f...
What Can't The Camera Catch? | Chatting With Umojo's Rick Neubauer
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s edition of The Courier, Jonah chats with Rick Neubauer, Founder and CEO of Umojo. Rick’s mobility journey is an interesting one, wi...
AVs & Narrative Command, Investing in the Future of Mobility With Alex Roy
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Roy knows two things — how the mobility world works, and how to tell a damn good story. On the first front, he established himself on the legen...
Has Kyte Crashed to Earth? Talking Winners & Losers with Placer.ai's RJ Hottovy
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With respect to the dozens of other companies that go by Kyte or Kite, the car rental via delivery startup Kyte looks like it may have hit a very bump...
Could DoorDash Do DSPs? Building A Delivery Biz with First's Andrew Nakkache
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Making delivery work is darn difficult: even when everything’s going well with the customers and the kitchens, you still have to manage hundreds of ...
ChargerHelp! CEO Worries About EVSE Reliability So You Don’t Have To
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When’s the last time you pulled up to a gas station and the pump didn’t work? While that’s a very rare occasion indeed, it’s sadly all too fre...
NYC Mobility Leader Dawn Miller on How Startups Can Sell to Government
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone that’s been following the news knows it’s been an interesting time in New York City governance, to say the least. At the state level, Gover...
Paris, Marseille and... Hoboken? Talking Cool Curbs With Jordan Justus
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a brief summer break, The Courier is back in action. Jonah Bliss and Greg Lindsay explore what makes the urbanism of France — both old and new...
Introducing The Courier Podcast
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want all your hottest urbanism, delivery, mobility and tech policy news in audio form?! Well you’re in luck, because Greg Lindsay and I are back wit...