About
Real-time data for the curb.
Parkspot turns existing city cameras into real-time data on what is happening at the curb, block by block, so cities, fleets and drivers can use live information instead of estimates or surveys.
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Our story
Founded by someone who argues about curbs at dinner.
It started with a simple observation: in busy parts of the city, finding a curb spot can take thirty minutes (the founder's own observation). Drivers idle. Cars circle the block. People end up double-parked, triple-parked, on the sidewalk. It's inefficient, it's bad for the street, and it's bad for the air. Our bet was that government-operated cameras in NYC already carried the signal. We are building one block-face timeline to serve a driver app (launching in NYC in November 2026), a city operations tool, and a fleet dispatch layer. The city and fleet products are pre-launch.
Founder
Denis Prodan
Founder, ParkspotLinkedIn
Cities have good data on roads, transit and traffic, and almost none on the curb, the one piece of infrastructure every trip ends at. The cameras that could fix that are already on the poles. Parkspot turns what they see into data a city can plan with, a fleet can route on and a driver can trust. Do it well and less of everyone's day goes to circling the block: fewer miles, less fuel, quieter streets, and some time back.
Sustainability
What less circling saves.
When parking is easier to predict, drivers spend less time searching, which cuts fuel use and CO2 emissions. SFMTA's SFpark evaluation (2014) reported drivers' emissions from searching for parking in pilot areas falling from 7.0 to 4.9 tonnes of CO2 a day (weekdays, 9am to 6pm), roughly 2 tonnes, across seven metered districts. A guidance-first deployment in a Midtown-core study area is projected at ~1–2 tonnes of CO2 per day under the same mechanism. That is a projection, not a measurement.
Principles
We read feeds. We don't store them.
We read public camera feeds that transportation agencies publish, under their published terms. A contributor network, where individuals and businesses opt in to share their own cameras, is on our roadmap. We don't store video, capture plates, or recognize faces.
Our vision
The curb is infrastructure. Treat it that way.
A parking bay is as much infrastructure as a lane of traffic or a bike lane. Cities that see curb data in real time can reprice, rezone, and reclaim space with evidence. Fleets that see availability can route around the parking hunt at every stop. Drivers stop circling, a behavior that averages about eight minutes per driver on average, across 22 studies in 15 cities.