{"id":5586,"date":"2016-07-13T18:02:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T12:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2016-07-13T18:02:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T12:32:06","slug":"yoshi-doesnt-let-go-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=5586","title":{"rendered":"Yoshi doesn\u2019t Let You Go to the Gas Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Good News for the San Francisco Citizens!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Gas comes as it is needed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, no more wasting time at the gas station!\u00a0 San-Francisco \u2013based startup, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startyoshi.com\/\">Yoshi Inc.<\/a> officially launched its gas delivery service in the Bay Area. Moreover, it offers small services such as pumping the car tires, replacing windshield and wipers as well as washing cars. Yoshi has partnered with Firestone to allow customers to buy new tires and book a tire change through the app.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshi\u2019s mobile, on-demand car services will reach you as soon as you book the service via its dedicated app. In US, there are many such gas-delivering services like Filld, WeFuel, Purple, Booster Fuels and GasNinjas. Nick Alexander is the CEO and Co-founder of Yoshi. Other founders are David Gobaud, Bryan Frist and Dan Hunter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSet it and forget it\u201d approach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This \u201cset it and forget it\u201d approach allows Yoshi to optimize their delivery routes. Engineering its own gas delivery trucks with a proprietary system, called the Fuel Vault, Yoshi is able to access any car\u2019s tank, even if the gas flap is locked. With respect to safety and legality of fuel delivery, Yoshi is abiding to relevant local regulators and rules, and especially fire departments, in each market where it begins fuel delivery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Yoshi\u2019s Funding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is reported that Yoshi has raised a seed funding of $120,000 for exploring new markets and upgrading its vehicles to keep in par with today\u2019s technology. The funds will be used in delivering a rapid charge to electric vehicles, or hydrogen or biodiesel. Currently, it is participating in Y Combinator in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>San-Francisco \u2013based startup, Yoshi Inc. officially launched its gas delivery service in the Bay Area. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover, it offers small services such as pumping the car tires, replacing windshield and wipers as well as washing cars.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is reported that Yoshi has raised a seed funding of $120,000 for exploring new markets and upgrading its vehicles to keep in par with today\u2019s technology.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Subscribe with us to get your dose of interesting news, research &amp; opinions in the startup segment. Fill the form below:<em><br \/>\n<\/em>[email-subscribers namefield=&#8221;YES&#8221; desc=&#8221;&#8221; group=&#8221;Public&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good News for the San Francisco Citizens! Gas comes as it is needed Now, no more wasting time at the gas station!\u00a0 San-Francisco \u2013based startup, Yoshi Inc. officially launched its gas delivery service in the Bay Area. Moreover, it offers small services such as pumping the car tires, replacing windshield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,21],"tags":[1545,70,875,1544],"class_list":["post-5586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-start-up","tag-on-demand-fuel-services-in-san-francisco","tag-startup","tag-startup-buzz","tag-yoshi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Yoshi.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}