TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Zoomo, the Australian startup with a mission to electrify delivery fleets through e-bike subscriptions, announced a $12 million interim capital raise on Monday. Now, the startup hopes to expand its service outward toward continental Europe and other states across the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The European e-scooter market is currently the main battleground for companies playing in the micromobility space, taking advantage as they are of Europe’s relatively compact cities and the desire of populations to move to more sustainable transportation. In 2021, players like Tier, Voi and Dott continued to raise VC backing. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How to Unlock Profits in Micromobility. How to Land Early-Stage Funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

One bright light amidst the gloom: Startups that generate enough revenue to drive steady growth will find many investors willing to take their calls. One bright light amidst the gloom: Startups that generate enough revenue to drive steady growth will find many investors willing to take their calls. That’s real money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How to Unlock Profits in Micromobility. How to Land Early-Stage Funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Micromobbin’ The North American Bikeshare and Scooter Association released its 2021 shared micromobility state of the industry report — and it has some interesting findings. Trips on e-scooters accounted for 49% of total trips taken on shared micromobility. 63% of riders said they used micromobility to connect to public transit.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Meet Vianova , a French startup that is building a data platform for shared mobility companies as well as local governments. million (€6 million) Series A funding round led by Baloise VC with XAnge as well as existing investors RATP Capital Innovation and Ponooc also participating. It has raised a $6.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Postmates X, the robotics division of the on-demand delivery startup that Uber acquired last year for $2.65 Serve Robotics, a name taken from the autonomous sidewalk delivery bot that was developed and piloted by Postmates X, has raised seed funding in a round led by venture capital firm Neo.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup that acquired Uber’s self-driving unit in December, is going public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners Y. Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora in final talks to merge with Reid Hoffman’s newest SPAC. . Venture capital at scale.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How to Unlock Profits in Micromobility. How to Land Early-Stage Funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Early-stage startups tend to claim that their go-to-market strategy is fully operational. Finding GTM fit is a milestone for any startup that includes everything from expanding the engineering team to launching your first media buy. These simple metrics will tell you if your startup is ready to scale. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

Bolt Mobility, the Miami-based micromobility startup co-founded by Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, appears to have vanished without a trace from several of its U.S. The company acquired in January 2021 the assets of Last Mile Holdings , which owned micromobility companies Gotcha and OjO Electric.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Bird, the shared electric scooter startup that operates in more than 200 cities across three continents, said Wednesday it is going public by merging with special purpose acquisition company Switchback II with an implied valuation of $2.3 It’s a rarity amongst scooter startups, which face notoriously high overhead.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Amsterdam-based startup VanMoof has raised a $128 million Series C funding round. Some existing investors also put some more money on the table, such as Norwest Venture Partners, Felix Capital, Balderton Capital and TriplePoint Capital. Overall, if you add it all up, the startup has raised $182 million in total.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

When Ford micromobility subsidiary Spin first launched a fleet of electric scooters in my hometown of Pittsburgh last summer, my immediate instinct was very old-man-yells-at-cloud. Founders of micromobility startups made plenty of good arguments for why fleets of electric scooters and bikes make sense.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

and will be listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the new ticker symbol, “HLBZ.” ” The transaction includes $30 million PIPE anchored by institutional investors and approximately $80 million in net proceeds will be fed into Helbiz’s micromobility and advertising businesses, which have 2.7 million users.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Bolt had appeared to be on an upward trajectory last year after acquiring the assets of Last Mile Holdings, which opened up 48 new markets to the micromobility operator. We’re still working that one out, but Alex Wilhelm and Annie Saunders have been pondering the effect that asset depreciation can have on startups like Bolt.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Bolt Mobility , the Miami-based micromobility startup co-founded by Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, is expanding to 48 new markets after acquiring the assets of Last Mile Holdings. ” The acquisition was funded in part by Fuel Venture Capital, an existing Bolt investor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Zoomo, the Australian startup that builds e-bikes and offers micromobility subscriptions to gig workers and couriers, wants to be the next disruptive electric vehicle company. The startup has just announced a $60 million Series B fundraise, money it aims to use to transform the way companies look at last-mile delivery.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Startups and VC Greycroft, the self-styled “seed-to-growth” venture capital firm, today announced the closing of over $1 billion in capital commitments across new funds, Kyle reports. s TympaHealth sounds out $23 million to expand its hearing diagnostics startup, Ingrid reports. Jagmeet has more. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

A number of startups such as Coord and curbflow have popped up in recent years, all aiming to solve this supply and demand problem. One entrant, the three-year-old startup Automotus , is beginning to rack up deployments in zones within cities like Santa Monica, Pittsburgh, Bellevue, Washington and Turin, Italy.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 28, 2022

The fresh capital will fuel Neuron’s unique international expansion strategy, which is laser-focused on winning highly prized competitive tenders, according to the announcement. This vertically integrated approach – which differs from most other shared micromobility companies – allows Neuron to innovate quicker and more efficiently.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Aria writes that it’s not a given, “but the high capital demands of aviation could mean more startups are still looking for a huge injection of cash via the public markets.” Crystal ball says… More e-bikes will hit the shared micromobility space. More SPAC deals. The f&%!, you might be thinking.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Startups are the embodiment of frenetic action. Companies like electric scooter providers Lime and Bird have raised tons of capital to change how the urban population gets around, but that growth has come at the cost of a bottom line still in the red. That has been truer for the mobility landscape than most other industries.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

This week, we published a four-part series about how Klaviyo co-founders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen bootstrapped their startup into an e-commerce marketing automation platform now valued at $4.15 Part 4: Drama and quirk aren’t necessary for startup success. Micromobility’s next big business is software, not vehicles.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In this instance, African web3 startup Nestcoin said it had to lay off employees as a result of not having that access. Oops : Bird, a micromobility company, told the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had included unpaid customer rides in its revenue, thus having overstated that particular number for two years. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Success breeds IPO : Shared vehicle company Lime reported its first profitable year, with Rebecca writing that “Lime has figured out how to make shared micromobility a sustainable business.” “Capital is more expensive now than it’s been in years,” he writes in TC+. So what happens when you are good at what you do?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Shared micromobility operator Veo has raised $16 million in new funding as the company ramps up its expansion plans in the United States. Veo, which was founded in 2017, has sought venture funding a bit later in the game than other micromobility companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

You want to make the most of your time at this one-day virtual intensive featuring interactive presentations with the mobility industry’s top movers, shakers and startup dream makers, amirite? Mobility mavens, June 9 will be here before you know it, and that means it’s time to get your strategy ducks in a row for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Startups and VC. Today, Haje has been running around at Micromobility America. They insist on using the MMA acronym, so he’s expecting a fist to the face any moment, but so far the only risk of injury has been from neck-breaking micromobility in the form of electric rollerblades. Ivan has more. million Series A in July.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Now, surging demand for delivery — and the pressure it places on curb space — is helping the transportation data startup attract new capital and expand to more cities. Populus plans to use that capital to expand to more cities, growth that the company believes will be driven by demand for street and curb management.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In the midst of a major second wave of coronavirus infections across Europe, an Estonian startup that’s building an on-demand network to move food and people around in cars, on scooters and ( most recently ) on bikes across developed and emerging markets in EMEA is announcing a major round of funding. France, South Africa and Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

This two-day deep dive — dedicated to mobility tech, early-stage startups and the investors who fund them — is a prime networking opportunity you don’t want to miss. Looking for a co-founder to help you build your mobility-centric startup? TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 goes big, live and in-person on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

The startup will use the funds to hire more than 50 engineers, data scientists, business development, insurance and compliance specialists, as well as scale into new industry verticals and across into Europe. million pre-Series A funding round. DigiSure is still new, so there’s room to grow, says Shim. valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

The new round boosts the one-year-old startup’s total financing to $12 million. The startup, which makes premium electric bicycles for commutes and off-road adventures for less than $2,000, didn’t come from nowhere. Zhang’s co-founders at Lime are also vouching for the young startup. Off the back of its $7.4

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. ( The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

New York-based Luxor Capital, which led the company’s €37 million Series B in September 2021 , is also leading this round. Real estate investment firm Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström (like Volta, based in Stockholm), supply chain services giant Agility, and B-FLEXION (formerly Waypoint Capital) also participated.

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