We’re a handful of people in California who think pre-booked rides deserve a better marketplace than what the big apps offer. Not trying to reinvent transportation — just making it easier for the right rider to find the right driver.
Why RidePickup exists.
One of our founders kept running into the same problem: elderly parents visiting from overseas, needing airport rides at 5am, needing a driver who spoke Mandarin, needing someone they could call directly if the flight changed. Uber didn’t solve any of it well — surge pricing, driver roulette, English-only, no phone number.
Existing Chinese-community options helped, but they were WeChat group chats and WhatsApp message boards: drivers post, riders call, repeat. Worked okay, didn’t scale, hard for newcomers to find.
RidePickup is an attempt to take that community model and give it structure: searchable driver profiles, one-click trip requests, filters by language and vehicle — but keep the core principle intact: the rider chooses the driver, and the two sides talk directly.
Three principles that shape how we build.
We make it easy for riders and drivers to find each other. The trip itself happens between them — we stay out of the way.
Each driver is an independent business. They set rates, pick their trips, keep their customer relationships. We don’t take a cut.
For family members, international visitors, or anyone who’d rather talk to their driver in their own tongue, language filtering isn’t a feature — it’s the point.
Small office, big maps on the wall.
Serving drivers and riders across the US. For platform questions: [email protected] · for driver onboarding: [email protected]
We’re hiring occasionally — engineering, driver ops, community. Say hi.