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Zum

School bus routing software and managed bus operations

Raised to date

$100M

of $100M offered across 1 Form D filing

Investors
1
Last filed
May 11, 2026

About

Zum Services, Inc. (Zum) is a Redwood City, California company that modernizes K-12 student transportation by combining a software platform with managed school bus operations. Its Connected Mobility Experience platform handles route optimization, dispatch, driver and fleet management, student boarding and real-time parent notifications on one system. Zum says it serves more than 5,000 schools and districts and completed 68 million rides in 2025, including Los Angeles Unified, San Francisco Unified and Boston Public Schools. In January 2024 it raised a $140M Series E led by GIC at a reported $1.3B valuation.

Zum owns both sides of the problem - the routing and tracking software and the fleet that runs on it - which lets it claim 98% on-time performance with up to 20% shorter route times and 25% fewer buses. It also launched the first fully electrified school bus fleet in the US (74 buses in Oakland, CA) with vehicle-to-grid capability that sends energy back to the grid.

Funding

  • EquityFiled May 11, 2026Form D
    $100M/ $100M

Product

Connected Mobility Experience (CMX)

Student transportation platform

A unified student transportation platform that connects districts, schools, dispatchers, drivers, students and parents in one real-time system, coordinating vehicles, routes and riders across a district's whole operation.

  • Dynamic route optimization and dispatch
  • Real-time bus tracking with parent notifications
  • Driver and dispatcher coordination tools

Built for

K-12 public school districts and charter schools in the United States, and the families they bus

People on file