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Zum

Transportation · Redwood City, United States · Founded 2015

Provides child transportation for school districts and busy families

Valuation $1–2.5B
Revenue $100–500M
Headcount 500–1k
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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Featured in
News Zum lands in Philadelphia, opens bus yard to serve city's school district Jul 31, 2026 News TPG backs school bus startup Zūm with $100M at $1.7B valuation Apr 16, 2026 News School bus startup Zum hits $333M in revenue, eyes IPO Mar 18, 2026

Investors

17 investors on Zum's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 6 investors entered at this stage
Ulu Ventures
FundersClub
AngelPad
Sand Hill Angels
Graphene Ventures
TSVC
Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
Sequoia
Mason Ng
Series B+ 9 investors entered at this stage
The Rise Fund (TPG)
Spark Capital
Eric Ver Ploeg
SoftBank
Climate Investment
BMW i Ventures
Volvo Cars Tech Fund
GIC
SoftBank Vision Fund

Ownership

Who owns Zum

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (Apr/2026). Percentages are indicative.

19.5% Sequoia Capital
  • Sequoia Capital 19.5%

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Global footprint

Where Zum has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
4 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States98.6%
🇺🇦 Ukraine0.5%
🇧🇷 Brazil0.5%
🇮🇳 India0.5%
4 countries shown
Web traffic by country
48K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States89.2%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.3%
🇮🇳 India3.1%
🇵🇭 Philippines1%
🇹🇷 Turkey1%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Zum's talent

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22 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
1 AI specialistpinpointed by name
583 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$1M patent portfolio · 11 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$1M
0.08% of valuation · 6.3× smaller than top peer Bird ($8M)
11 active patent families
Where Zum innovates Computer securityDriver/operatorGraphical user interfaceReal-time computingServer

Where Zum concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Zum and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Zum

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Zum on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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