Contractor position, full-time Remote, from a time zone within the range of UTC-6 to UTC-9 Poparide is a socially-minded Canadian company designed to fill a need: affordable city-to-city travel for everyone. Our vision is to live in a world where we all share resources to better preserve our planet. Our mission is to fill empty seats in cars and help people travel together and make travel more social, affordable and sustainable for everyone. Therefore, we connect our members who are driving with passengers heading in the same direction. You can read more about our impact here. Established in ..read more

In light of his recent TEDx talk, we asked our CEO, Flo Devellennes, to take over our semi-regular round-up of all the happenings in our carpooling community. Dear fellow Popariders, This summer has been a period of growth with the number of people joining our community climbing to 1,000 a day – that’s over 100,000 of you who have joined us just in the last three months! We are humbled by your willingness to share rides together and help fulfill our mission of making travel more social, affordable, and sustainable for everyone in Canada. This period has also been filled with uncertainty ..read more

We’re so excited to share the very first Popaletter, a semi-regular round-up of the latest happenings in our carpool community! Wowzers! What a travelsome start of the year it has been! Together, we filled over 80,000 empty seats in cars and had 40,000 members share nearly 15 million km together, creating countless casual collisions and preventing over 2,300 metric tons of CO2. All the while, we continued growing at an unprecedented rate, helping more and more people get access to safe, convenient, and crowdsourced rides. This impact and growth is amazing and it’s all thanks to you—our member ..read more

This article was written by Phil, one of many Poparide drivers you can find on the road. You can usually catch him traveling from Quebec to Montreal visiting old friends. As a driver on Poparide, I know firsthand how important your rating can be. It shows potential passengers that you’re safe, reliable, and courteous. The higher your rating, the more likely you are to fill the seats in your car for carpooling trips. Getting five stars – the highest possible rating – takes some attention to detail and consideration, but it’s achievable. I joined the app back in 2017 and in that time, I’ve lear ..read more

Full-time, remote Canada Our mission at Poparide is to fill empty seats in cars and help people travel together. We do this by connecting drivers with people heading the same direction. By sharing trips, we create a new type of travel that is more social, affordable and sustainable for everyone. Our vision is to live in a world where we all share resources to better preserve our planet. You can read more about our impact here. Established in 2015, Poparide now boasts over 500,000 users across Canada and operates a city-to-city carpooling service on dozens of routes across all provinces. After ..read more

In January 2020 we published the article “Top 5 Learnings of Growing Poparide From 50,000 to 250,000 Members” reflecting on what we’d learned in our journey of having members in the six figures. One month later, COVID-19 brought the world and our business screeching to a halt. Now, two years—and a global pandemic later, we’ve doubled again to 500,000 members. We thought it would be a good time to reflect on weathering the storm of the last two years and what we’ve learned as our members, business, and team have grown.  If you are on a growth journey like ours, we hope this will inspire yo ..read more

It’s always exciting to plan a getaway to Quebec City! This article will tell you how to get from Montreal to Quebec City in the cheapest possible way so that you have more money to spend on a delicious poutine at Ashton’s. Here are all the different options available to get from Montreal to Quebec City, from the cheapest to most expensive… Poparide $25 – $30 per seat (2h30 – 3 hours travel time) Poparide members from Quebec On the Montreal-Quebec City corridor, a lot of local drivers offer their empty seats on Poparide, a carpooling platform with over 500,000 members in Canada (full disclaime ..read more

3-month contract position with the possibility to extend at the end of the term We’re on a mission to fill empty seats in cars and make travel more social, affordable and sustainable for everyone. Established in 2015, our city-to-city carpooling platform boasts over 400,000 users across Canada, connecting drivers with people heading in the same direction. After a challenging period of travel restrictions due to Covid-19, Poparide is growing again. We’re looking for highly motivated individuals to help us move towards our vision of a world where we all share resources to better preserve our pl ..read more

Poparide experiences record growth as people return to travelling after two years of pandemic amidst soaring gas prices and inflation. May 26, 2022 – Vancouver, BC – Poparide, Canada’s leading city-to-city carpooling platform, today announced an 800% year-over-year increase in carpooling over the May long weekend, signalling a strong return to its pre-pandemic growth. After travel restrictions flattened revenues in early 2020, the company is experiencing a resurgence in carpooling as gas prices exceed two dollars per litre and inflation reaches a new 31–year high. “The rising cost of gas, food ..read more

By Antonia Issa, VP Support, Poparide When I started at Poparide a few years ago, I knew I was onto something that would make a huge difference in people’s lives.  From day one, I was drawn to the company’s vision of a world where we all share resources to help preserve our environment. This vision resonated deeply with my sense of responsibility towards the environment, and I wanted to help make travel more social, affordable and sustainable for everyone.  I was tasked to build a support team of individuals that share the same values and are motivated to work together to crea ..read more