Tonight we’re painting the town green. We have a mighty good reason. We’re living in the golden age of urban transport — and our company Transit just raised $17.5M to be its platform.

First off, formalities. Our lead investor is Alliance Ventures, a joint investment arm of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi. Christian Noske from Alliance will be joining our board. Christian, you’ve been following Transit since our company was an itty-bitty startup. We’re thrilled to (literally) have you on board. Joining Alliance are the folks at InMotion Ventures, along with some of our past investors: Accel and Real Ventures.

Second off, woah. $17.5M is a lot of money. It will let us double-down on all the projects we’ve been working so hard on: adding deeper integrations to make car-free transport more discoverable, expanding those integrations to more and more services, pushing for more cooperation between modes, and continuing to be the trusted rider platform for our transit agency partners. Maybe we’ll write more posts on Medium, too. Maybe we have a big announcement coming next week. Maybe it will blow your mind. Maybe…