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§ Private Profile · San Francisco, CA, USA
StreetLight Data is a technology company.
StreetLight Data provides transportation data solutions, leveraging a proprietary big data platform for mobility analytics. Its technology processes extensive datasets to measure vehicle, transit, bike, and pedestrian movements, offering insights into traffic volumes, origin-destination patterns, and travel times. This enables analysis for infrastructure optimization and urban planning.
Laura Schewel, Paul Friedman, and Rich Miller co-founded StreetLight Data in 2011. They recognized that traditional transportation planning lacked the analytical depth and scale modern data science could provide. Their insight was to apply big data analytics to reveal travel behaviors, fostering more efficient and sustainable built environments.
Government agencies, businesses, and consulting firms adopt StreetLight Data’s product for applications from strategic planning to operational enhancements. The company's vision is to continually advance its mobility analytics, empowering stakeholders with insights to design, manage, and evolve intelligent transportation networks globally.
StreetLight Data has raised $35.0M across 3 funding rounds.
StreetLight Data has raised $35.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
StreetLight Data has raised $35.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $15.0M Series D in August 2020.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2020 | $15M Series D | — | Paul Jordan, Ajax Strategies, Jared Doskow, Osage University Partners | Announced |
| Jul 1, 2018 | $10M Series C | — | Aberdare Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Osage University Partners, DTCP, Scott Pinizzotto | Announced |
| Mar 1, 2016 | $10M Series B | — | Aberdare Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Osage University Partners | Announced |
StreetLight Data has raised $35.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
StreetLight Data's investors include Paul Jordan, Ajax Strategies, Jared Doskow, Osage University Partners, Aberdare Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, DTCP, Scott Pinizzotto.
StreetLight Data is a San Francisco-based technology company that pioneered Big Data analytics for transportation in 2011, building the StreetLight InSight® SaaS platform to analyze anonymized mobility patterns from cellular, GPS, and location-based services data.[1][2][3] It serves transportation professionals, public agencies like state DOTs (e.g., Virginia DOT, Ohio DOT), city planners (e.g., Los Angeles DOT, New York City DOT), consulting firms, and private companies, solving the problem of outdated, manual data collection by providing on-demand, granular insights into vehicle, bike, pedestrian, bus, and rail movements to enable safer, greener, and more efficient urban planning.[2][3][5] Acquired by Jacobs in February 2022 as a subsidiary, StreetLight powers over 2,000 monthly projects across 48 U.S. states and 10 Canadian provinces, with strong growth in metrics like average daily traffic (ADT) for 4 million U.S. roadway miles and expanded visualizations.[2][3]
Founded in 2011 by Laura Schewel, who serves as CEO, StreetLight emerged from the need to replace slow, costly manual counts and surveys with Big Data for understanding urban mobility.[1][3][4] Schewel, based in San Francisco with an additional office in Richmond, Virginia, combined machine learning with transportation expertise to process trillions of anonymized spatial data points into intuitive maps and analytics.[1][3][6] Early traction came from launching StreetLight InSight in the mid-2010s, introducing industry-first location-based services (LBS) data coverage, validated ADT counts, and expansions to bike/pedestrian metrics—pivotal moments that positioned it ahead of traditional methods.[3] The 2022 acquisition by Jacobs accelerated its scale, aligning with global infrastructure demands.[2][3]
StreetLight rides the smart cities and sustainable mobility trend, leveraging Big Data amid aging infrastructure, climate goals, and new mobility forms like micromobility, where traditional data falls short on scale and timeliness.[3][5][6] Timing is ideal with U.S. infrastructure funding (e.g., IIJA) and equity mandates driving data-driven decisions for congestion reduction, safe streets, and emissions cuts—its empirical metrics inform 30-year plans like bike lane placement via comprehensive traffic scans.[1][2][5] Market forces like urbanization and EV/transit shifts favor its nationwide coverage, influencing ecosystems by powering DOT subscriptions, academic research on public space equity, and private planning—shifting transportation from surveys to real-time analytics.[2][3][7]
StreetLight is poised for expansion under Jacobs' global reach, likely deepening AI-driven predictions for autonomous vehicles, climate-resilient infrastructure, and equity-focused planning as funding peaks and regulations tighten.[2][3][5] Trends like multimodal integration and real-time "digital twins" will shape its growth, evolving its influence from North American analytics leader to worldwide enabler of connected, sustainable cities—building on its pioneering mission to make urban mobility intuitive and impactful.[1][6]