Faizan Bhatty co-founded Halo Cars with Kenan Saleh while studying at the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. As a way to create new ad space on rideshare vehicles and a way for Uber and Lyft drivers to earn more money. He created smart digital screens that sit atop cars enabling the display of hyper-targeted ads. Startup-Competition Awards funded prototypes and a pilot and $500,000 from Angel investors followed. The company sold to Lyft within a year of its inception.
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