Zum Named as Finalist in 2025 Reuters Global Sustainability Awards for Modernizing Student Transportation
Company Shortlisted for Product Innovation Award for Increasing Safety, Efficiency and Grid Resiliency for Communities Nationwide
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 30, 2025 – Zūm, a leader in modern student transportation, today announced that it has been named as a finalist in the Reuters: Global Sustainability Awards 2025.
The awards honor companies that are “pioneering sustainable business models and advancing the transition towards a net-zero future.” Zum was shortlisted as a finalist for the prestigious Product Innovation Award. Other 2025 finalists include DuPont, Samsung, Rodale Institute, Whole Foods Market, and Cisco Systems, Inc.
“Zum has gained incredible momentum and support for its mission to increase the safety, efficiency and equity of student transportation while improving grid resilience for communities nationwide,” said Ritu Narayan, Founder and CEO at Zum. “It is an honor to receive this global recognition for Zum’s innovation and dedication to modernizing the industry for all families, drivers and schools."
Winners of the Reuters: Global Sustainability Awards 2025 will be announced Oct. 22 at a ceremony in London. Learn more and see the list of finalists here.
Zum unifies parents, students, school administrators and drivers on a single personalized technology platform, enabling never-before achieved levels of visibility and data-backed accountability. Through the Zum app, parents can track their child’s ride to and from school in real time, see a profile of their child's bus driver and be notified of their child's pickup or dropoff status. Zum also allows administrators to optimize routes and provides staff with real-time data and performance reports.
In 2024, Zum launched the nation's first fully electrified school bus fleet in Oakland, California. The 74-bus Oakland fleet is also equipped with groundbreaking vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, enabling the buses to return energy to the local grid at scale and improve grid resilience during times of peak demand.
Zum is a national leader in modern student transportation, serving more than 4,000 schools across 14 states nationwide, including districts in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland; Boston; Seattle; Spokane; Nashville; Omaha; Kansas City, Mo.; and Howard County, Md.
To learn more about how Zum is working with thousands of schools to deliver safe, reliable and modern student transportation, please visit Zum's website.
About Zūm
Zum is a modern transportation solution transforming school transportation, the largest mass transit system in the U.S. Today, the company provides turnkey modern transportation solutions to school districts in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Utah, and Virginia, and is expanding rapidly nationwide. Recognized globally for its innovative transportation and energy as a service platform, Zum has been featured among Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, CNBC Disruptor 50, CNBC Changemakers, World Economic Forum and Financial Times’ Fastest Growing Companies. Learn more about Zum at www.ridezum.com.
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