History

In the summer of 2008, Jonathan McKinney approached Jesse Sommer to develop a revolutionary idea: “cab sharing.”  By connecting individuals located in the same general area and headed in the same direction, they sought to utilize taxicabs’ “unused backseat real estate” and make taxi transportation affordable to a wider segment of the population.  They further believed “cab sharing” could drastically reduce the pollution associated with taxi travel.  In the coming months, the dynamic team they assembled built a website that would serve as an environmental and financial solution.

The CabCorner prototype launched in New York City in early 2009, a few months prior to the initiation of NYC’s own street-based cab-sharing program.  Extensive media praise fueled the startup company’s ambitions, and development of its new global platform began in 2010. 

That April, the nascent cab sharing industry consolidated when Cabcorner, LLC acquired its primary competitor: CabEasy.com.  The partnership thus positioned CabCorner as the web’s leader in cab-sharing technologies and logistics (Click to read the Press Release.) and with the beginning of this new year, 2012, we are going live with CabEasy, the new mobile platform dedicated to providing our riders with extremely competitive rates by leveraging the power of open market bidding. Through our various livery providers in NYC, the CabEasy mobile application presents our users with the ability to leverage dynamic pricing and to take advantage of the multitude of livery operators that are eager to serve our riders quickly, efficiently and cost effectively.

At 12:01am on Memorial Day, May 31, 2010, the new CabCorner website went live.  To date, CabCorner has facilitated hundreds of shared Rides throughout the United States.

The CabCorner Crew:

  • Jonathan McKinney
    Founder, Chief Executive Officer
     
  • Jesse S. Sommer
    Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer
     
  • Varun Bihani
    Chief Technology Officer
     
  • Craig Weiner
    Chief Financial Officer
     
  • Lou Carpino
    Chief Marketing Officer

Investor-Advisors:

  • Laurent Kretz
    Founder, CabEasy.com
     
  • Zhou Wenhan
    Founder, Tagxe.com