Selected for AltaLab Fall 2026 — AltaIR Capital's founder program

Every driver knows where to park.
Every city breathes easier.

ChenAI is the parking intelligence layer: it knows your car, sees every spot in the city — street, garage or mall — and holds the one that fits you. Free for drivers. Starting in Tel Aviv.

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Tel Aviv-Yafo · BudapestFree for drivers, foreverPrivacy by design
30+ min

average street-parking search in central Tel Aviv

the problem
1 in 3

searches actually ends in a parking spot

the odds today
~30%

of traffic in congested districts is cruising for parking

congestion · fuel · CO₂
₪282M

in parking fines collected by Tel Aviv in 2023 alone

the cost of guessing

The problem

Parking is the last unsolved layer of urban navigation.

Every neighbouring problem got solved. Routing, payment, garage booking abroad. Finding the spot — the part that wastes the thirty minutes — is still open. That gap is the company.

solved

Routing

Waze — born in Israel, sold to Google for ~$1.1B.

solved

Payment

Pango (2M+ users) and Cellopark own pay-by-phone.

solved abroad

Garage booking

SpotHero, JustPark, Arrive — off-street only, not in Israel.

open

Finding the spot

No one fuses live street sensing, covered lots and car-fit matching in one free consumer app. Anywhere.

17 hours and $345 a year — what the average driver wastes searching (INRIX). Israel has 4.2 million vehicles growing 3% a year against fixed curb space.

The product

One app. The AI finds the spot, fits your car, holds it.

Five moments, one drive. The app shows only spots your car actually fits, only where parking is legal for you at that hour — and holds the one you choose for exactly as long as it takes you to arrive.

01

Type your plate once

ChenAI resolves your exact make, model, trim, year and dimensions from Israel's open vehicle registry. No measurements, ever. From then on the app shows only spots your car actually fits.

02

Know before you go

Live availability at your destination — only legal parking for you, at that hour. Residents-only zones, disabled bays and loading zones are blacked out automatically.

03

Always a plan B

Area full? Instantly ranked alternatives: “three minutes' walk away — 94% confidence, fits your car.”

04

Claim it

True reservations at partner garages and lots, held for a window set by your live ETA. Street spots use exclusive in-app claims that vanish from every other user's map.

05

Park, pay, done

Guidance to the exact spot; payment stays with Pango and Cellopark — ChenAI creates their transactions. And the AI learns from every park.

How it works

One AI. Every source of parking truth.

Cameras, sensors, garage feeds, aerial maps and the drivers themselves — fused into one live, confidence-scored map of the whole parking reality of a city. Then prediction fills every street the sensors don't watch.

ChenAI smart cameras

Per-spot truth in under a minute. One camera covers 30–100 spots; all AI runs on the device.

Sensors at crucial locations

Second-by-second certainty at disabled bays, EV chargers, loading zones and flagship streets.

Underground & covered lots

Live feeds from malls, supermarkets and garages — where no satellite or street camera can see. Tel Aviv's municipal feed exists today.

Satellite & aerial mapping

Every spot in the city, its exact size and its rules — plus history that trains prediction.

Fusion & prediction AI

output: one live map

  • A live, confidence-scored availability map of every spot in the city.
  • Prediction fills every street the sensors don't cover — and learns from every ChenAI user who parks or leaves.
  • Restricted parking blacked out automatically: residents-only, disabled bays, loading zones, time-window rules.
  • Coverage and accuracy compound with every user — the Waze flywheel, applied to parking.

Layers become infrastructure.

Apps compete on features. A layer that knows every car, every spot and every hour of the city is what navigation apps, fleets and — eventually — automakers' dashboards will license. Every competitor sells one slice: garage booking, a neighbourhood subscription, municipal analytics, coarse prediction. ChenAI is the layer beneath all the slices.

The vision models start from mature open-source detection, fine-tuned on our own Tel Aviv street footage. The prediction engine is built in-house — its value is entirely the proprietary dataset: pilot metrics, user signals, garage feeds. That cannot be bought, and therefore cannot be copied.

The differentiator

Type your plate once. ChenAI knows your car forever.

No product on the market matches spots to your car automatically. Not Google, not Waze, not any parking app. Watch what happens after one plate number.

01 · youonce

Your plate

Typed by you, once, at signup.

IL
→
02 · registryfree · open

Government registry

Israel's open vehicle API: plate → exact make, model, trim, year. 4.1M vehicles.

make · Škodamodel · Octavia Combiyear · 2022✓ registry match
→
03 · dimensionsspec data

Your dimensions

Length, width, height joined from commercial vehicle-spec databases.

→
04 · the map10–25 cm aerial

Perfect-fit spots

Matched against ChenAI's measured map of every spot's geometry.

5.0 mfits
4.2 mtoo short
5.4 mfits

A promise, not a guess.

“Fits your car” only works if the map is measured. ChenAI builds a city-wide spot-geometry map from 10–25 cm aerial imagery, refined by its own cameras — a data asset competitors can't shortcut.

Reservations, where holding is legal.

Public street spots cannot legally be hard-reserved anywhere in the world — so ChenAI holds spots at partnered garages and lots, and gives street spots exclusive in-app claims instead. Engineered around the law, not against it.

Privacy by design

Only the AI ever sees the street.

The sensing network is built so it physically cannot identify anyone. Your car is known only because you told your own app your plate.

No human ever watches

Frames are processed on the device and discarded instantly. Nothing is recorded; nothing can be replayed.

No plates. No faces.

The sensing network physically cannot identify anyone. It counts occupancy — it never reads a plate.

Only metadata leaves the device

The camera transmits one anonymous fact: “spot 14 is free.” That is the entire data stream.

Beyond compliance — a moat

Designed past Israel's Privacy Protection Law Amendment 13 (2025) and the PPA camera guidelines, with a privacy officer from the first deployment and a third-party audit before citywide launch.

Municipal cameras: we never ask for raw video. Where a city wants its cameras used, ChenAI's edge software runs under the city's own authority, and only derived occupancy data reaches us. Partners never inherit legal risk from ChenAI.

Partners

Built with the partners who go first.

Every paying party receives new, measurable value: filled spots, delivered shoppers, data that never existed.

Cities

first: Tel Aviv-Yafo

  • A data layer no Israeli city has: live, planning-grade curb occupancy from privacy-certified devices — the city holds the authority.
  • Less cruising, cleaner air: measurable congestion, fuel and CO₂ reductions the city publishes and counts toward climate goals.
  • Compliance by design: the app shows only legal parking — enforcement relief before enforcement is needed.
  • Municipal lots surfaced free to every driver from day one, starting with the live Ahuzot HaHof feed.

Parking operators

garages · lots · counting

  • Demand delivered in real time — including off-peak hours that currently earn nothing.
  • Reservations arrive pre-committed, held for an ETA-calculated window that minimises no-shows.
  • No counting system? ChenAI installs edge-AI counting at our cost as part of the partnership.
  • Pricing and demand analytics: which hours, entrances and spot types are underpriced.

Malls & retail

supermarkets · chains · centres

  • “Shoppers with a guaranteed spot”: your covered garage — invisible to satellites — becomes a reason to choose you.
  • Attributed footfall: see exactly how many visits ChenAI delivered.
  • Offers at the moment of decision: “reserve here, parking validated.”
  • The rails already exist: automatic-entry integrations prove it — ChenAI adds discovery and reservation.

Payments stay with Pango and Cellopark — ChenAI creates their transactions, it does not compete with them. Navigation platforms and automakers' dashboards are the long view: the live spot layer is exactly what they lack.

We're looking for partners who want to be first.

One district, one lot, one garage. Published before/after search-time results the city can own — and first place in line for everyone who says yes now.

01

One city district

A CityZone / municipal pilot: ~20 cameras and sensors in a flagship district, with published before/after search-time results.

02

One garage operator

A single lot running live feeds and ETA-held reservations — filling hours that earn nothing today.

03

One retail chain

A mall or supermarket garage that greets ChenAI users with a guaranteed spot — and measures every visit we deliver.

What partners risk: one district, one lot, one garage. What partners gain: first place in line.

Start the conversation →

Why now

A $10B market compounding ~23% a year — and the buyers keep paying up.

$10.2B → $53B

Global smart-parking market, 2025 → 2033. On-street solutions — ChenAI's home turf — are the fastest-growing segment.

19–23%

compound annual growth to 2033

$72.7B

wasted per year searching for parking in the US alone (INRIX)

Strategic buyers, recent prices

  • $600MSpotHero → Uber 2026
  • $1.5BSP Plus → Metropolis 2024
  • $175MGett → Pango 2024
  • —Parkopedia → EasyPark/Arrive 2025; BMW, Daimler and Porsche have all bought or backed parking-data ventures

Tel Aviv is the perfect beachhead — then the template travels.

Israel's worst parking pain, its most digital municipality, a living-lab program for street pilots, and national grants for exactly this stage. Success here is a playbook for Jerusalem, Haifa — and every dense city in Europe and Asia.

Business model

Free for drivers. Forever. That's the strategy.

Adoption uncapped by price, the network effect uncapped by adoption. The other side of the marketplace pays — in this order.

from pilot

Facility partnerships

SaaS + per-booking fees from operators whose empty capacity we fill.

from launch

Retail footfall

Malls and chains pay for delivered, attributed visits and clearly-labelled placement.

growth

Contextual offers

“Coffee two minutes from your spot” — tasteful, clearly labelled, while the base grows.

growth

Municipal data services

Anonymised curb analytics, planning dashboards, policy simulation.

scale

API & in-car licensing

The live layer, licensed to navigation apps, fleets — and automakers' dashboards.

People shouldn't pay to stop wasting their lives circling the block. They should get used to ChenAI, love it — and never navigate without it.

Roadmap

Eighteen months from map to market — then the country.

Each step is earned with published numbers: the district, the city, the country — then the template travels through the EU door the team already holds keys to.

0–4 months

Foundation

Company, brand, Tel Aviv spot map from aerial imagery, municipal-lot and garage feeds live, plate-to-fit engine, app MVP.

we are here · 2026
4–10 months

Pilot

CityZone living lab: ~20 edge cameras and sensors in one flagship district, first garage partner with ETA-held reservations, 1,000-driver beta.

10–18 months

Tel Aviv launch

Free citywide launch, prediction engine trained on pilot data, Pango/Cellopark handoff, 3–5 facility partners, city data dashboard.

18–36 months

Israel scale

Gush Dan, Jerusalem, Haifa; retail chains portfolio-wide; 3+ municipal partnerships; Series A.

36+ months

Horizon

International cities through the Budapest bridgehead, in-car licensing with automakers, strategic options proven at $175M–$1.5B.

Team

Tel Aviv-Yafo × Budapest. One team, two cities.

A founding team with finance, legal, engineering and EU-funding capability in-house — and an engineering partner that works at risk because it believes in the product.

AP

Aharon Pace Schneider

Founder & CEO

Tel Aviv-Yafo

Finance, payroll and compliance professional (BA, Bar-Ilan). The company runs on clean books from the first shekel — the founder's own profession, a genuine rarity at this stage.

EP

Eldad Pace Schneider

Co-founder

Tel Aviv-Yafo

Builds the company alongside Aharon: structure, partnerships and the rule that every arrangement lives in daylight — written, disclosed, at arm's length.

SJ

Szilard Jakab

Fractional CTO

Budapest

Technology executive: a decade at EPAM Systems, CIO of Prohuman, GM & Head of Technology at ARTEMIS (ALTEO Group), co-founder of MPS Verity and ClearPass AI, co-founder & CPO of Digital One. Expert in EU funding instruments.

ALTA
LAB
Accelerator

AltaLab Fall 2026 — by AltaIR Capital

Selected for the Fall 2026 cohort of AltaIR Capital's founder program for AI startups, led by Igor Ryabenkiy — investor behind Deel, Miro and PandaDoc.

D1
Engineering & AI architecture partner

Digital One Technology Consulting

AI-native consultancy (Dublin / Budapest) with an official Anthropic partnership and an in-house EU AI-governance practice. Works on a deferred basis until revenues — a commitment that itself signals conviction.

Questions

Straight answers.

Is ChenAI really free for drivers?
Yes — permanently. People shouldn't pay to stop wasting their lives circling the block. The business is funded by the other side of the marketplace: operators who fill empty capacity, retailers who gain shoppers with a guaranteed spot, cities that gain a live curb-data layer, and — at scale — navigation and in-car licensing.
Can you actually reserve a street spot?
No — and neither can anyone else, anywhere in the world: public street spots cannot legally be hard-reserved. ChenAI holds spots for real at partnered garages and lots (for a window set by your live ETA), and gives street spots an exclusive in-app claim that removes them from every other user's map. The plan was engineered around that fact, not against it.
Do your cameras record me or my plate?
No. Frames are processed on the device and discarded instantly; nothing is recorded and nothing can be replayed. The only thing that ever leaves a device is an anonymous fact like “spot 14 is free”. The network physically cannot identify anyone — your car is known only because you told your own app your plate.
How do you know my car fits?
You type your plate once. Israel's open vehicle registry returns your exact make, model, trim and year; commercial spec databases add length, width and height; and ChenAI matches those against its measured map of every spot's geometry — built from 10–25 cm aerial imagery and refined by its own cameras. No product on the market does this.
Where and when?
Tel Aviv-Yafo first: a flagship-district pilot with about twenty edge cameras and sensors, a first garage partner and a 1,000-driver beta, then a free citywide launch. After that Gush Dan, Jerusalem and Haifa — and, through the Budapest engineering base, dense cities in Europe. Join the waitlist below to be first.
How do I pay for parking?
Exactly as you do today. Payment stays with Pango and Cellopark — ChenAI creates their transactions rather than competing with them, so there is no second app and no new account.
Who are you looking for right now?
Partners who want to be first: one city district for a pilot, one garage or lot operator, one mall or retail chain — plus drivers for the Tel Aviv beta and investors who back mobility and smart-city infrastructure. Write to us below.

Contact

Be first.

Cities, operators, retailers, drivers, investors — tell us who you are and we'll come back to you personally. The daily ritual of circling the block belongs in the museum of solved problems.

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