Via Transportation, Inc.
Lobbying client
Via Transportation, Inc. is a New York City transit-technology company founded in 2012 by Daniel Ramot and Oren Shoval, providing microtransit, paratransit, and student-transportation software. It built the city Department of Education's school-bus tracking app that lets parents see where their children's buses are, and it went public on the NYSE in September 2025. It has filed 6 disclosures in 2024, registered citywide with just $75 in reported lobbying compensation, and currently holds about $12.9 million in active NYC contracts as of August 2026.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 6
- Lobbyist firm(s)
- In-house
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $75
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Standardized Services
- City contracts (active)
- $12,897,136 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $51,650,977 · 2 since 2019, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $31,072,550
- Won without a fresh bid
- 25% of contract value · $12,897,136 · 1 contract
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Transportation Issues
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- Bus Fleet Tracking, Ride Management, and Notification System Department of Education · MA104020259574775 $12,897,136
- Bus Fleet Tracking, Ride Management, and Notification System Department of Education · MA104020209078294 · ended 2024 $38,753,841