New Startup Zirx Provides Concierge Services For Drivers

Cameron Aubernon
by Cameron Aubernon

This Saturday will be one of the most brutal shopping days of the year, as everyone will be trying to find that last-minute Christmas gift for their loved ones. The last thing anyone needs is to try to figure out where to park, wasting precious shopping minutes while circling the lot in their mythical brown diesel manual RWD wagon.

For those in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle, there is a solution.

San Francisco-based startup Zirx provides shoppers — and anyone else who needs it — with an array of automotive concierge services, from charging your Tesla Model S or Nissan Leaf for $10 and $15 parking so you can get on with it, to $4/gallon refueling and $30 full-detail car washing service for your Dodge Charger Hellcat or Ford F-150 Platinum Edition. Overnight parking in monitored garages and oil changes are available, as well, and all prices include tips, so you can put that tipping calculator away.

Said services are initiated via an app on your iPhone or Android unit of choice, with a Zirx agent popping by within five to seven minutes. The agents work seven days a week in the downtown cores of the aforementioned cities, with hours of operation between 7 a.m. and midnight on most days, depending on the city. Your car is covered by a $2 million insurance policy split evenly between your car and its agent, with coverage in effect from the start of your requested service, to the time your car is returned.

Though Zirx is in just three cities, the concierge startup is looking at expanding to other locations. As for Windows and BlackBerry users, the app will come to their phones in the near-future.

Cameron Aubernon
Cameron Aubernon

Seattle-based writer, blogger, and photographer for many a publication. Born in Louisville. Raised in Kansas. Where I lay my head is home.

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  • APaGttH APaGttH on Dec 20, 2014

    SPAM filter ate my reply. In congested Seattle, this makes sense - I agree with clives! above

  • Gasser Gasser on Dec 20, 2014

    I live in L.A. If, and only if, you get the car back, its a great idea. As usual, the devil is in the details, and as noted above, the time involved to get said vehicle returned to you is critical. Otherwise its faster and easier to UBER it.

  • HerrKaLeun HerrKaLeun on Dec 20, 2014

    "$30 full-detail car washing service' I assume this is just washing the car and not a full detail (like one you do when you want to sell your car for top $)? And who needs parking for shopping. Last I checked the malls had plenty and the internet doesn't require parking.

  • Swester Swester on Dec 21, 2014

    Let me guess, $850 million valuation for another inane idea that caters to virtually no one? Nope, no startup bubble going on whatsoever...

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