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Su Sanni

Tech Founder | Social Entrepreneur
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Brooklyn, New York
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linkedin.com/in/sulaimansanni
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su@dollaride.com
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917-923-8199

Su Sanni is the founder & CEO of Dollaride, a mobility company that provides clean transportation solutions to small businesses in underserved communities. In past ventures, he's helped raise and administer over $50M in philanthropic funding to organizations using WeDidIt, an online platform for nonprofit fundraising. WeDidIt was acquired by the Allegiance Group in 2019. Now focused on improving urban transit with Dollaride, Su aims to bring clean transportation to cities all around the US. Press: NYT story on Dollaride (2019): https://nyti.ms/2yey8Dn Press: Afrotech story on electrifying dollar vans (2022): http://bit.ly/3HsSwAe

Work Experience

Dollaride

Cofounder & CEO
Feb 2017 - Current

Dollaride is a mobility platform for communities underserved by public transit.

Dollaride provides a fully integrated transportation technology platform for "dollar vans", New York City's hidden transit network. NYC's network includes 120K daily passengers and 500+ licensed drivers.

We are building modern mobility infrastructure for the informal transit economy; a $350B+ segment of the trillion-dollar transportation industry. The company’s products include digital payments, virtual operations, and data services that help local businesses fill public transit gaps.

  • built core founding team
  • developed GTM strategy leading to the first $1M in revenue
  • raised $2M in pre-seed startup funding (from VC and angel investors)
  • raised over $12M in grant funding from gov’t and corporate funders

Allegiance Group

President of Technology Solutions
Jun 2019 - Mar 2021

Lead the Technology Solutions Division on several projects, including post-acquisition integration, and the development of new SaaS products at Allegiance.

Worked directly with C-Suite, as well as Senior Product, Client Services, and Engineering leaders to:

  • develop a new Product Roadmap and Client Service strategy reflecting 2-year vision/turn-around of Allegiance Group
  • build new mobile and SaaS products for NPOs (i.e. CRM, Fundraising App, Public Radio Broadcast Traffic System, etc)
  • reduced customer service tickets and requests by implementing a new AI-based chatbot, and new processes to manage 700+ recurring NPO clients in public media

WeDidIt

Co-founder & CEO
Jul 2011 - Jun 2019

WeDidIt provides an online fundraising management platform that helps fiscal sponsors magnify their impact across the country. Our goal is to help fiscal sponsors support more projects and to help projects secure the funding needed to pursue their missions.

As CEO, my responsibilities generally included: (1) managing cash & cashflow (2) building the best team possible (3) clarifying the vision every step of the way

Accomplishments:

  • raised $1.6M in VC funding and generated over $2M ARR
  • raised and disbursed over $50M for 2000+ nonprofit clients
  • clients included Boy Scouts of America, Amnesty International, Natural History Museum, and Social Good Fund
  • led WeDidIt to acquisition by the Allegiance Group in 2019

MillerCoors

National Judge // Miller Lite Tap The Future Startup Pitch Competition
Jul 2013 - Aug 2016

Miller Lite is championing entrepreneurship, helping business owners 21 and older take their businesses to the next level with Miller Lite Tap the Future®, a business competition that provides entrepreneurs an opportunity to compete for a prize pool of more than $300,000.

I contributed as a judge alongside Ben Lamson, my cofounder at WeDidIt, and Daymond John of Shark Tank, founder of FUBU. We traveled to 6 markets across the country every summer, listening to startup pitches. We awarded a $20,000 funding grant to a startup in each market, as well as an entry into the finals for a chance to win an additional $200,000 grant prize award.

  • judged 100+ startup pitches around the US (8 cities)
  • worked with Miller Lite and PR team to do press and media

Meltwater Group

Account Manager
Feb 2011 - Jul 2011

Meltwater's Client Relations department works closely with customers through portfolio management. Worked in a team-oriented environment close to the market with budget responsibilities. As an account manager, there is a focus on sales and the understanding of a B2B sales process. Account managers are responsible for the results of a company, and must possess a thorough understanding and knowledge of the sales process.

Worked with clients like UNICEF, Boys and Girls Club of America, Dell Computers, and US Tennis Association.

  • responsible for portfolio of ~150 clients valued at $750K in ARR
  • handled contract renewals and up-sells
  • negotiated long term contracts with client company directors, executives and senior personnel

Meltwater Group

Sales Consultant
Jul 2010 - Jan 2011

Founded in Norway in 2001, Meltwater Group is a SaaS (software-as-a-service) provider with over 17,000 clients, 700 employees, and 50 offices globally. Meltwater Group currently delivers business solutions based on search engine technology, social media monitoring and cloud computing under a SaaS subscription model.

  • repsonsible for 300+ client pipeline
  • $20K/month sales quota
May 2009 - Jun 2011

ALLSMiLES Media Group is a one-stop-shop media production company for aspiring music artists, models and entertainers seeking increased internet exposure. Through strategic web marketing and a full-service production studio, ALLSMiLES is the ultimate resource for creators who want to magnify their web presence.

Cofounded by 3 Boston College graduates, the trio produced music and content for over for artists and musicians from their studio in Harlem.

  • acts included Nicki Minaj, A$AP Mob/Rocky, Charlemagne the God, Lil Duval and Serious Jones
  • served 70+ local artists and musicians within the span of only 2 years.

Brown Brothers Harriman

Treasury Analyst
Jul 2008 - May 2010

Brown Brothers Harriman is the oldest and largest custodial investment bank in America.

As a treasury analyst, I was responsible for analyzing the bank's daily foreign exchange trades and initiating large profitable overnight deposits into other global custodian banks.

  • maintained average daily investment volume of $1.5B

Education

Harvard Business School

Executive Education, Creating Shared Value - Strategy 2017 - 2017
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017

Boston College

Bachelor of Arts Psychology
Sep 2003 - May 2007

Boston College

Masters of Science Business Management
May 2007 - Jul 2008

Projects

Nov 2022 - Nov 2025

Selected winner of the New York Clean Transportation Prize in the Clean Neighborhoods category. $10M award and NYC government contract to provide a clean transportation service to disadvantaged communities in Brooklyn and Queens.

Sep 2020 - Aug 2021

Elemental Excelerator helps startups change the world, one community at a time. Each year, we find 12-15 companies that best fit our mission and fund each company up to $1 million to improve systems that impact people’s lives: energy, water, agriculture, and transportation.

Urban Future Lab

Participant/tenant
Mar 2018 - Current

Urban Future Lab is the center of cleantech innovation in New York. We are leading the way to a more sustainable world by connecting people, capital, and purpose to advance market-ready solutions to address climate change.

UFL is part of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and is located in Downtown Brooklyn.

43 North

$500K Award Winner (2016)
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

Awarded the $500K investment prize in 43North's national business pitch competition in Buffalo, NY. Competition winners were provided cash award, mentorship, office space and resources to build their companies in Buffalo. (WeDidIt)

500 Startups

Participating founder
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014

Participated in the world-class startup accelerator in San Francisco/Silicon Valley, as a founder of WeDidIt. Batch 10.

Skills

  • team leadership
  • financial planning & modeling
  • urban transit
  • clean transportation systems design
  • pitching & investor fundraising
  • product development & management
  • hiring & recruiting
  • B2B marketing & sales
  • customer success & client services