Welcome to Shift, A Podcaste, A Podcaste's

A Podcaste, A Podcasts about Mobility.

I'm Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine, and joining me today.

Alexis St. John, covering tech and suppliers.

Now you may be wondering where Pete Bigelow is.

Well, Pete will be joining us in just a few minutes. We're all going to be speaking today with Quinn Garcia.

Quinn Garcia is Managing Director of Autotech Ventures. That is an early stage venture capital firm.

We're going to focus on what's going on with the VC scene,

particularly as it relates to transportation startups.

And transportation startups have been making a lot of noise lately.

I don't know what's going on, even with the pandemic,

we're getting a lot of news that's popping up in this space.

One of the companies that's making some news right now is May Mobility.

Now that's a company that actually got it start with the help of venture capital.

And they made some news this week so what's

going on with that company I know they had put things on hold for a while with their shuttles.

They had back in March just as things were really coming to a head here in the US.

May mobility halted operations in the cities in which it was running its services, notably Grand Rapids, Michigan, had a,

had a corridor that it was operating on and halted those services back in March, but Maybobility has stated that it will be

resuming operations, actually August 31st. So after five and a half months of being offline, they're now

ramping back up again and this time of course with extensive safety and health measures in place.

So things like additional cleaning,

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