A bus rolling past a full stop. A car with empty seats. A coordination problem worth solving.
Alexey, Kristoffer, and Josh — Spare's founders.
In 2015, three university students in Vancouver noticed something that felt wrong: buses would roll past stops overcrowded while cars with empty seats drove by. It wasn't a lack of resources, it was a lack of coordination.
Kristoffer Vik Hansen, Josh Andrews, and Alexey Indeev set out to fix that. Their first real test came at a hackathon organized by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), where they built a demand-responsive transit solution that won and went live. That partnership is still running today, now powering over 185,000 microtransit rides per month and DART's full ADA paratransit operation.
That origin story still shapes how we work: find the real problem, build something that actually runs, and stay close to the communities it serves.
37 million+
Rides powered to date
200+
Cities served worldwide
1M+
AI Voice conversations handled
Spare started in transit. Our ambition is bigger.
What started in Vancouver now spans three continents.
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Our Global Impact
We understand that every journey can be an integral part of someone's daily life. Whether it's commuting to work, visiting loved ones, or accessing essential services, each journey represents a vital connection to the tapestry of our lives.
To learn more about Spare's impact this year, read our Impact Report.
We don't post a list of values and call it done. Here's how our guiding principles actually show up.
Customer Obsession.
Every decision runs through a single question: does this drive customer success? For us that means talking to transit coordinators before scoping features and treating accessibility as a design constraint from day one, not an afterthought.
Taking Ownership.
When something goes wrong in a live service, we don't escalate into abstraction. We dig in, fix it, and communicate clearly. Our team has spent time inside dispatch centres because you can't own an outcome you've never seen run.
Execute with Urgency.
A missed ride isn't a metric, it's a person who didn't get to an appointment, a missed community connection. This awareness shapes how we work: we move fast, ship in focused increments, and don't sit on hard news. We hold ourselves to a high standard of execution because reliability matters. We value people who seek feedback and raise the bar.
Growth Mindset.
Transit in Dallas works differently than transit in rural Norway or central Japan. We treat that complexity as the thing that keeps us sharp, and the reason we'll never build software that only works in a demo. The best ideas often come from what we don't know yet, which is why curiosity, feedback, and continuous learning are part of how we work.
Distributed by design. United by what we're building.
We're growing, not just in headcount, but in depth. The problems we're taking on now are bigger than where we started, and we're looking for people who want to work on something that matters.