Your ride between cities, matched to you
A shared ride between Ottawa, Toronto and Montréal, matched on how you travel.
Join the waitlistGetting between these cities is worse than it should be
Rail, intercity coach, driving alone, informal rideshare boards. Each solves part of the trip; each leaves something out.
| Rail | Intercity coach | Driving alone | Informal rideshare boards | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Yield-managed. The same seat is cheap booked early and expensive booked late, so there is no single price to quote. | Usually the cheapest of the four. | Fuel, tolls, parking and wear on the car, all borne by one person. | Whatever two strangers agree between themselves, settled between themselves. |
| Journey | Station to station on a fixed schedule. Ottawa–Montréal about 2 hours, Ottawa–Toronto about 4 hours 30, Toronto–Montréal about 5 hours. | The slowest of the four, terminal to terminal, with more stops along the way. | Door to door, leaving when you decide to leave. | Door to door, whenever somebody happens to be going your way. |
| Falls short | You travel on the timetable's terms, and you still have to reach the station at one end and get away from it at the other. | Coverage has gaps. Greyhound ended service in Central Canada in May 2021, after withdrawing from Western Canada in 2018. | The empty seats beside you carry nobody and pay for nothing. | No verification, no payment protection, no recourse. The listing is where the platform's involvement ends. |
Voyar is built for the gap that leaves: door to door like driving, cost-shared like the coach, with the verified profiles and in-app payment the boards do not have.
Four steps, and the match happens before you commit
- 02
Get matched
We compare what you each want from the drive, and offer the trip only when enough of it lines up.
- 03
Book and pay in one place
Booking, payment and messages stay on Voyar. No cash, no off-platform arrangement.
- 04
Travel, then review
Meet at a transit node, not a random address. Afterwards you both leave a review.
Three cities, one corridor
Three routes along the highways a Voyar car actually drives: the 401, the 417 and Autoroute 40.
Ottawa – Montréal
- Distance
- 199 km
- Typical drive
- 2 h 00
Ottawa – Toronto
- Distance
- 450 km
- Typical drive
- 4 h 30
Toronto – Montréal
- Distance
- 548 km
- Typical drive
- 5 h 30
Distances are driving distances over OpenStreetMap data. Drive times are uncongested best-case, not a promise.
Rider and driver apps launch in the Ottawa–Montréal corridor first. The other two follow.
Mechanisms, not reassurances
You choose who you travel with
You're matched automatically, but the final choice is yours. Review a member's profile (name, photo, reviews from other members) before you book.
We monitor activity
Automated checks on driver activity. Zero tolerance for harassment, abuse or stalking, and strict policies on speeding and reckless driving.
Payments stay in the app
Rides are booked and paid through a secure payment gateway, so there's no cash and no off-platform arrangement.
You're covered by member protection
Keep communication, booking and payment on Voyar and you're protected by our member protection system. Identity and data are held securely.
Who is building this
You should know who is behind a company you haven't used yet. Four people, named, with the work they did before this.
Maryam Kaboudhoun
Founder & CEO
Fifteen years building and scaling a Tehran manufacturer across procurement, sales and business development: the operational range a two-sided marketplace needs before it has scale to hide behind.
Elmira Moradi
Marketing
Commercial and international business development, and co-founder of a Tehran distribution company. Builds demand in markets where the category is new.
Babak Jamshidi
Operations
A decade in steel-industry operations, latterly as senior operations manager: planning, quality systems, and the unglamorous work of making a process repeatable.
Ehsan Salandari
Onboarding & Support
Strategic sourcing, then supplier onboarding and relationship management: designing the process by which someone new to a system is verified, brought in, and supported.
Where we actually are
Being openly pre-launch with a credible plan is stronger than implying you've shipped.
- Now
Pre-launch
- Neither the rider app nor the driver app is live.
- The waitlist is open to riders and drivers.
- The first corridor is Ottawa, Toronto and Montréal.
- Phase I
Launch on the corridor
- Rider and driver apps built and released.
- Posting, matching, booking and payment handled end to end in the app.
- First rides between Ottawa, Toronto and Montréal.
- Phase II
Reasons to come back
- Early-bird and referral offers for the first riders and drivers.
- Monthly passes and a frequent-rider programme.
- Expansion to major cities in British Columbia.
- Phase III
Beyond the corridor
- Alberta, and further cities in British Columbia.
- More of Ontario and Québec.
- Inter-city delivery of goods alongside people.
Sequence, not dates. Nothing here carries a quarter. An order we can stand behind is worth more than a date we cannot yet commit to, and we will not invent one.
Be first on the corridor
Join the waitlist and we'll write when Voyar opens in your city. Two paths, because riders and drivers need different things.
I want a seat
Take a seat in a car already making the drive, next to someone you'd choose to sit beside.
Join as a riderI'm already driving
Post the empty seats on a trip you're already making, and set what they're worth.
Join as a driver