“Can a mobility SaaS platform for cities own the full payment and management stack for every curbside transaction — parking, transit, permitting, and citations?”
Founded in 2010 as a mobile parking payment app for cities, Passport evolved into a full mobility management platform covering parking, transit, permitting, and citations. A key strategic pivot was building its own registered PayFac infrastructure (Passport Payments), moving from relying on third-party payment processors to becoming a payments facilitator itself — capturing economics on small-ticket municipal transactions. The company has expanded its addressable market from parking meters to the broader urban mobility and city government software stack, embedding payments as a core revenue layer.
Passport processes payments through Finix and Passport Payments (self-operated).
Passport was founded by Bob Youakim and is founded in 2010, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Passport has raised $125M in total (latest round: Series D, December 2019).
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