{"id":12444,"date":"2022-03-03T09:21:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T09:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masabidev.wpengine.com\/news\/ticketing-innovator-masabi-secures-significant-strategic-growth-investment-from-accel-kkr\/"},"modified":"2022-03-03T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T09:47:23","slug":"ticketing-innovator-masabi-secures-significant-strategic-growth-investment-from-accel-kkr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masabi.com\/it\/news\/ticketing-innovator-masabi-secures-significant-strategic-growth-investment-from-accel-kkr\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticketing Innovator Masabi Secures Significant Strategic Growth Investment from Accel-KKR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Funding to Accelerate Platform Innovation and Fuel Rapid Market Expansion with Public Transport Agencies Globally<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Boston MA, London UK & Menlo Park, CA, [March 3, 2022]<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Masabi, the company bringing the latest ticketing innovations to public transport around the world via \u2018Fare Payments-as-a-Service\u2019,\u00a0today announced a strategic growth investment from Accel-KKR<\/a>, a leading technology-focused private equity firm with over $11 billion in capital commitments. Existing investors Shell and Smedvig Capital also participated in the round.<\/p>\n

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This investment will supercharge Masabi\u2019s continued success in disrupting the legacy ticketing industry by accelerating product development and adding new deployments of Justride in North and South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.<\/p>\n

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Masabi\u2019s market-leading platform is being adopted by an ever-growing number of public transit agencies and authorities of all sizes around the globe. Today, Masabi operates in nine countries, with more than 140 customers in cities such as Denver, Las Vegas, Boston, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Columbus, Calgary, Birmingham, Valencia, Bilbao and Osaka.<\/p>\n

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Cities and public transit agencies previously had to rely on monolithic automated fare collection (AFC) technology providers to create complex, bespoke ticketing systems resulting in excessive capital expenditures, and requiring significant time and effort to go live. This legacy approach delivers systems that are expensive and time consuming to upgrade, and creates significant challenges maintaining pace with consumer and technology changes.<\/p>\n

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Masabi disrupts the traditional model by combining SaaS and cloud computing to deliver FPaaS which is easy and quick to upgrade, enabling transit agencies to continually benefit from the latest ticketing innovations quickly and cost-effectively.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe past few years have seen a revolution in transport ticketing and payments technology, and Masabi has consistently been at the forefront, time-after-time delivering ground-breaking firsts which have shaped the industry,\u201d said Brian Zanghi, CEO of Masabi<\/strong>. \u201cThis significant investment will help us build on our market-leading technical and geographic foundations, to accelerate company growth and make it easier for more passengers around the globe to safely and quickly access public transport. We\u2019re delighted to welcome Accel-KKR\u2019s support and look forward to working with them to take our growth to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joe Porten, Managing Director of Accel-KKR<\/strong> said, \u201cOver $270 billion is spent every year on tickets for public transit globally, and it is one of the most visible services that local governments provide. Public transit agencies have been underserved by rigid, stifling systems unable to keep up with technology and consumer-facing innovations that riders have come to expect in their daily lives. We have been impressed by Masabi\u2019s agile yet powerful SaaS approach to bring innovation to this space, and we look forward to supporting Brian and the Masabi team as they scale.\u201d<\/p>\n