Miami runson water.Now you can too.
On-demand private boat transit for the worst-traffic water city in America.
In peak season, Miami stops.
Dec–April is F1, Art Basel, Music Week, Ultra, World Cup, Heat playoffs, Spring Break — with 10× rideshare surge and 30-minute waits to leave the block.
We're building Miami's water data layer.
Every trip maps the most efficient waterways, the hottest pickup spots, and the partners riders actually want.
The solution is already parked at the dock.
Florida leads the US with 1.2M registered boats. The average private boat is used 54 days a year.
Tap a dock. Arrive by water.
Same UX as ride-share. On water. Fewer bridges.
Rider app
Waterfront pickup + drop-off to every restaurant, venue, and dock in the bay. Tap, board, go.
Captain app
USCG-licensed captains accept nearby trips. Live earnings, same-day payout, route navigation.
Owner dashboard
Fleet owners list vessels, set rate floors, assign captains. Nava handles all demand and dispatch.
A $20B waterfront, already built by boat.
580K waterfront residents. 27M annual visitors. Every corridor connects by water.
Uber costs the same. Nava is 3× faster.
South Beach → Edgewater on an event weekend: 45–50 min and $110 by road, ~18 min and $110 by water.
South Beach → Edgewater
7 miBrickell → South Beach
9 miCoconut Grove → Key Biscayne
4 miOwners keep 85%. Always.
15% added to the base fare, 15% taken from the owner's cut. Simple, fair, and built so supply stays loyal.
15% is added on top of the base fare so riders pay a small premium for a premium product. Rider-side fee funds dispatch, insurance pool, and marina coordination.
15% of the base fare is Nava’s cut from the owner’s payout — leaving the owner with 85% on every completed trip. No hidden fees, no shifting commissions, no race-to-the-bottom.
Owners keep 85% on every trip — the highest payout in the marketplace segment. Loyal supply is the moat; the 15% + 15% structure builds it.
$41M annual marketplace at 1,000 rides a day.
$30 Nava revenue per trip · ~$10.8M annual run rate. Before any international expansion.
Lock in the waterfront, partner by partner.
Every marina, captain, venue, and condo we sign is supply density no later entrant can replicate.
Marinas
Dedicated Nava slips and boarding lanes at Dinner Key, Bayside, Sea Isle, Miami Yacht Club, Haulover, Crandon, Pelican Harbor, Epic, and more.
Venues & operators
Direct partnerships with Kiki on the River, Casa Neos, Seaspice, Rusty Pelican, Monty's, Palm Tree Club, and the Kaseya Center — dock access baked into the guest experience.
Captains & vessels
USCG-licensed captain network, exclusive fleet operators, and owner-supplied vessels onboarded in waves so Nava is the path of least resistance to extra income.
Other cities already move 70M by water.
Istanbul, NYC, Seattle, Bangkok, Sydney. Miami has denser waterfront and worse traffic than all of them.
The playbook scales to 23 waterfront cities.
Tier 1: South Florida. Tier 2: US water metros. Tier 3: global ferry cities.
Tier 1 · South FL
5 cities inside 200 mi of Miami HQ. Existing water taxi base in Ft Lauderdale; 300 mi of canals.
Tier 2 · US water cities
8 metros with public ferry demand we layer on with on-demand supply. NYC Ferry shows willingness.
Tier 3 · International
10 international markets with ferry culture + wealth concentration. Dubai, Sydney, London first.
Founding team with a working product.
Four apps in development. Pilot corridor modeled. Marina partners identified. USCG captain network in qualification.
Software
Rider + captain + owner + marina apps. Real-time dispatch engine. Same-day payout rails. In beta with founding captains.
Operations
Miami-Dade marina partnerships in late-stage. Pilot corridor mapped. Insurance framework with brokered fleet policy.
Capital
Raising pre-seed to fund pilot fleet, insurance pool, and the captain onboarding layer. Use-of-funds in data room.
The earliest capital owns the network.
We're building the water-transit layer for the only American water city without one. Data room available on request.