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| 10.09.2024 | Atomico's Bold Leap: A $1.24 Billion Investment in Europe's Future | In a world where innovation is the lifeblood of progress, Atomico has just made a monumental move. The London-based venture capital firm announced its largest-ever fundraise, totaling $1.24 billion. This ambitious step is not just a number;... |
| 10.09.2024 | +++ Atomico +++ SET Ventures +++ Innovationsagenda +++ SumUp +++ Wandelbots +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Dienstag, 10. September) #STARTUPLAND: LEAN, CONNECT, GROW
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| 09.09.2024 | Atomico completes largest ever fundraise of $1.24 billion | Today, Atomico announced two new funds totalling $1.24 billion to support Europe’s most game-changing founders. This represents a more than 50 percent increase from its previous $820 million fund, Atomico V.
Atomico was founded by Skype’s N... |
| 08.08.2024 | В прокате электросамокатов растет напряжение | - |
| 31.07.2024 | CONCERTIV WELCOMES NEW CEO AND SENIOR LEADERS TO MEET GROWING DEMAND | NEW YORK , July 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Concertiv, the leading provider of procurement for professional services firms, is thrilled to mark a significant milestone by appointing Shane Torchiana as its Chief Executive Officer and welcoming ... |
| 10.07.2024 | На электросамокатах по двое не собираться | - |
| 07.07.2024 | С начала года в Челябинской области произошло 55 ДТП с участием самокатчиков | - |
| 04.07.2024 | New DC Gov’t Relations Firm Launches to Champion Frontier Tech Companies | WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 4, 2024–
Today marks the official launch of Washington Office, a new DC-based strategy firm that aims to redefine government relations by focusing on frontier tech that powers the national interest. Specifica... |
| 28.05.2024 | Accidents Decrease Among Users of Shared Electric Scooters | Accidents Decrease Among Users of Shared Electric Scooters
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New European statistics show that the number of injuries per million trips with electric scooters decreased by 44 percent in 2023 com... |
| 07.05.2024 | Bloom is reinventing how e-bikes are made in the US | The pandemic ushered in an e-bike boom. But like so many other pandemic trends, that boom didn’t last.
The last year has seen e-bike startups VanMoof and Cake file for bankruptcy amid a backdrop of micromobility doom and gloom. Tier and Dot... |
| 03.05.2024 | Центр управления парковками выявил около 50 нарушений использования самокатов | - |
| 02.05.2024 | The BirdBike eBike Is Just $700 with Free Shipping The eBike from the originators of the electric scooter trend is hundreds of dollars off for a limited time. | - |
| 02.05.2024 | Петербург открыл сезон слежки за самокатчиками | - |
| 19.04.2024 | Электросамокаты объезжают закон | - |
| 15.04.2024 | Самокаты у вело | - |
| 15.04.2024 | «В 90% авариях с участием самокатчиков виновны самокатчики» | - |
| 05.04.2024 | Самокатам закрыли путь в метро | - |
| 03.04.2024 | Что нужно знать о поездках на электросамокатах в 2024 году | - |
| 06.03.2024 | Electric Scooters Market to reach $39.8 Bn by 2032, Says Global Market Insights Inc. | - |
| 01.02.2024 | MessageBird rebrands as Bird, and slashes prices by 90% on SMS to take on Twilio | No, don’t think Bird Scooters. Think Bird, formerly MessageBird. For the Amsterdam-based unicorn is now re-branding as such after reportedly acquiring the Bird.com domain name a couple of years ago, allegedly for many millions.
Founded in 2... |
| 02.01.2024 | Bird, an electric scooter company once valued at $2.5 billion, filed for bankruptcy | Bird, the electric scooter company once valued at $2.5 billion, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing a series of setbacks. Bird confirmed in a press release that it has entered a “financial restructuring process” to bolster its balan... |
| 23.12.2023 | Adobe gives up on Figma, Apple Watch sales halted and hackers access millions of accounts | Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the top tech — and tech-related — stories over the past several days. With the holiday around the corner, this reporter expected a quieter week. But th... |
| 21.12.2023 | Bird, Electric Scooter Rental Firm Found in Many US Cities, Announces Bankruptcy | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 21 December 2023, 06:12 am |
| 20.12.2023 | Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy | Bird has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, capping off a turbulent year for the electric scooter company.
In a press release today, Bird confirmed that it had entered into a “financial restructuring process aimed at strengthening its balance... |
| 20.12.2023 | Bird, once primed to be the Uber of electric scooters and valued at $2.5 billion, just filed for bankruptcy | Transportation Bird, once primed to be the Uber of electric scooters and valued at $2.5 billion, just filed for bankruptcy
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| 19.11.2023 | Cruise’s mea culpa and everything that stood out at the LA Auto Show | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.
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| 27.09.2023 | Can Bird’s Spin acquisition give it the lift it needs? | It’s been over a year since shared micromobility startup Bird warned shareholders that it might get delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. On Monday, that warning became a reality.
The news comes about a week after Bird closed a deal to... |
| 22.09.2023 | Bird Faces NYSE Trading Suspension After Stock Collapse, Will Appeal Delisting Notice | Inno Flores, Tech Times 22 September 2023, 11:09 pm
Bird, an electric scooter and bike rental company, said the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will suspend trading of its stock. Before the pandemic, electric scooter and bike rentals emerged... |
| 20.09.2023 | Bird Acquires Spin | Bird Global (NYSE:BRDS), a Miami, FL-based environmentally friendly electric transportation company, acquired Skinny Labs, Inc, (doing business as Spin), a San Francisco, CA-based shared electric bike and scooter operator, from Tier Mobilit... |
| 13.07.2023 | Bird Secures Renewals for Micromobility Operations in Nearly 30 Markets Across United States | Bird Global, a leader in environmentally friendly electric transportation, announced the successful renewal of its operations in nearly 30 markets across the United States. This development furthers Bird’s commitment to providing sustainabl... |
| 18.05.2023 | Bird stock dips 11% on news of reverse stock split | Shared micromobility company Bird’s share price fell 10.8%, or about two cents, in after-hours trading after the company said it would issue a reverse stock split. The move is Bird’s attempt to get back into compliance with the New York Sto... |
| 11.05.2023 | Bird’s weak stock market performance impacts the entire e-scooter industry | Bird’s first-quarter earnings show a company struggling to maintain ridership and revenue — two legs of the profitability stool for the shared micromobility market. Bird did manage to cut costs — that would be the third leg — but it wasn’t ... |
| 10.04.2023 | Arrival pulls a double SPAC, Tesla keeps slashing prices and New York Auto Show highlights | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.
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| 03.01.2023 | Tongal and NBCUniversal Are Tapping Fans to Create More Content | As a kid, Jeff Blackman loved to see the animated artwork that would air between shows on networks like MTV and Nickelodeon.
Now, as the senior vice president of creative, entertainment cable creative & marketing in NBCUniversal’s Telev... |
| 20.12.2022 | Scooter company Bird is emailing customers to tell them they still owe 62 cents, 93 cents, or 78 cents from rides taken years ago | Scooter company Bird is reaching out to customers to settle past-due amounts of cents.
In November, Bird admitted to inflating its revenue for a period between 2020 and 2022.
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| 19.12.2022 | Scooter company Bird is emailing customers to tell them they still owe 62 cents, 93 cents, or 78 cents from rides taken years ago | Struggling Bird is coming after customers who owe just cents. Bird
Scooter company Bird is reaching out to customers to settle past-due amounts of cents.
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| 05.12.2022 | Tier-owned Spin exits 10 US markets amid low demand, unfavorable city regulations | Micromobility operator Spin is leaving 10 U.S. markets due to a combination of low demand, over-regulation, under-regulation and poor cost structures, according to a company-wide email sent Friday by Philip Reinckens, Spin’s CEO, that was s... |
| 02.12.2022 | Bird’s plan to stay in the shared scooter game | Shared micromobility company Bird has lost nearly all of its value since going public through a special purpose acquisition merger last year, falling from a 52-week high of $9.05 per share to around 23 cents per share this afternoon. In its... |
| 11.11.2022 | CoMotion LA ‘22: The Future of Transportation | dot.LA is proud to announce our partnership with CoMotion for their 6th edition of CoMotion LA, one of the most important events on the future of transportation. CoMotion LA ‘22 will be held November 15-17 at the Japanese American National ... |
| 18.10.2022 | Bird exits Germany, Sweden, Norway and “several dozen” US, EMEA markets | Shared micromobility company Bird is exiting several markets across the world as it struggles to build an economically viable business, according to a regulatory filing.
Bird said it will “fully exit Germany, Sweden and Norway, as well as w... |
| 17.10.2022 | Driverless in Phoenix and GM takes its EV offensive beyond vehicles | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. This is a shorter version of The Station newslette... |
| 11.10.2022 | How To Apply to Take Part in LA's 'Universal Basic Mobility' Pilot | L.A. Metro is launching the largest experiment in the U.S. to provide 2,000 residents with a seamless transportation payment platform spanning public and private systems.
The agency is opening up applications for its mobility wallet as part... |
| 10.10.2022 | Why Rivian’s Massive Recall Is Par for the Course | On Friday evening, Rivian Automotive announced a recall on nearly every single vehicle it has produced so far.
According to documentation filed with the Nation Transportation and Highway Safety Administration, “The fastener connecting the f... |
| 21.09.2022 | Bird board backs new scooter boss | Micromobility company Bird is boosting its president, Shane Torchiana, to CEO status in a “long-planned” shakeup that sees founding chief executive Travis VanderZanden further stripped of power.
Bird’s board also announced two other appoint... |
| 29.08.2022 | Is there no bottom to the SPAC mess? | For a brief moment earlier in the ongoing pandemic, it appeared that there was a solution for the backlog of richly priced startups that needed to provide their backers with liquidity: SPACs.
SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies,... |
| 27.04.2022 | Lime Is Bringing Its New, More Eco-Friendly Scooters to LA | The first Lime electric scooters hit the streets of Los Angeles in June 2018, some nine months after rival e-scooter startup Bird first took flight in Santa Monica. In the years since, Lime has battled Bird and a wave of other micromobility... |
| 25.04.2022 | The Station: Lyft’s bikeshare play, Tesla’s Q1 warning and big bucks for Musk’s tunnel startup | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 21.04.2022 | The future of mobility on display during CoMotion, with Miami as focal point | Facebook
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| 04.04.2022 | The Station: Running a startup in war-torn Ukraine, Tier goes on a shopping spree and Tesla breaks a new EV delivery record | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 24.03.2022 | Bird tests motorized wheelchair attachment in NYC | Shared micromobility company Bird is launching a limited pilot to test a battery-powered attachment for wheelchairs in an effort to increase accessible mobility for persons with disabilities.
The new “adaptive program” will be a part of the... |
| 15.03.2022 | Bird’s Q4 revenues beat expectations, but investors don’t love its conservative 2022 growth forecast | Shared micromobility company Bird disclosed its 2021 fourth quarter and full year earnings on Tuesday after the bell.
The report was the company’s second public earnings release after finalizing its SPAC deal in November. Since its combinat... |
| 15.03.2022 | High Gas Prices Could Boost E-Scooter and E-Bike Ridership, Bird CEO Says | Sign up for dot.LA’s daily newsletter for the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
Electric scooter startup Bird more than doubled its revenues in 2021 as pandemic restrictions eased and riders retur... |
| 15.03.2022 | High Gas Prices Could Boost E-Scooter and E-Bike Ridership, Bird CEO Says | Electric scooter startup Bird more than doubled its revenues in 2021 as pandemic restrictions eased and riders returned to its shared micromobility network, while CEO Travis VanderZanden talked up the possibility of high gas prices forcing ... |
| 04.02.2022 | Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's a bird.com domain name sale! MessageBird outbids micromobility company Bird | With more than $1 billion raised, Dutch cloud communications scale-up MessageBird can certainly afford to buy a domain name here and there.
But outbidding publicly-listed e-scooter and e-bike juggernaut Bird for the bird.com domain name? Th... |
| 24.01.2022 | The Station: How ADAS is failing drivers, Luminar’s lidar and data deal, GM expands its hydrogen fuel cell plans | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 05.01.2022 | Amid COVID Concerns, Here’s What LA Tech Firms Have Planned for CES 2022 | With COVID-19 cases surging to all-time highs, tech giants like Google and Microsoft are among those who have decided they won’t be physically present at CES 2022, the massive annual consumer electronics trade show being held this week in L... |
| 08.12.2021 | Shared micromobility company Bird launches two retail scooters, available at Target | Bird, the shared micromobility company that recently went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, has launched two new kick scooters for sale. The Bird Flex, a foldable personal e-scooter costing $599, and the Birdie G... |
| 15.11.2021 | The Station: The biggest deal of 2021 and executive shuffling in transportation land | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 02.11.2021 | Bird Scoots Past Major Hurdle Towards Its Public Market Debut | Micromobility company Bird's closely-watched public market debut crossed its last major hurdle on Tuesday.
The Santa Monica-based firm, which plops rentable scooters on sidewalks across hundreds of cities in Europe, the U.S. and the Middle ... |
| 01.11.2021 | The Station: Amazon reveals Rivian stake, the Tesla FSD saga continues and Aurora snaps up a CIG startup | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 21.10.2021 | Switchback II : Bird Announces Planned Public Company Board Of Directors | LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Bird Rides, Inc. ("Bird" or the "Company"), a leader in environmentally-friendly electric transportation, today announced the planned composition of its Board of Directors. This... |
| 14.10.2021 | Switchback II : Bird Announces Upsizing of Vehicle Financing Credit Facility with Apollo to $150 Million | LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Bird Rides, Inc. ("Bird" or the "Company"), a leader in environmentally friendly electric transportation, today announced that it has secured commitments from Apollo Investment ... |
| 27.09.2021 | The Station: Tesla rolls out its FSD beta button, delivery deals heat up, micromobility evolves | Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.
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| 13.09.2021 | The Station: Apple car shakeup, how Sept. 11 changed travel and a pledge from airlines | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 01.09.2021 | Bird Construction Inc. Expands Committed Syndicated Credit Facility to $235 Million and Extends Maturity into 2024 | Bird Construction Inc. announced that it has extended its Syndicated Credit Facility (the "Credit Facility") by an additional year and expanded the committed Credit Facility to $235 million. Bank of Montreal ("BMO") is a... |
| 20.08.2021 | Bird shows improving scooter economics, long march to profitability | Newly reported financial data from Bird, an American scooter sharing service, shows a company with an improving economic model and a multiyear path to profitability. However, that path is fraught unless a number of scenarios all work out in... |
| 19.08.2021 | Bird Burns $43.7 million in Q2 as Revenue Rebounds 477% From Pandemic Plunge | Scooter startup Bird is still losing money hand over fist, though the losses are slowing slightly and revenue is picking up as pandemic restrictions ease.
With plans to go public via a SPAC, the Santa Monica company released its second-quar... |
| 17.08.2021 | You Can Now Find Nearby Bird Scooters on Google Maps | People navigating via Google Maps can now easily see Bird scooters available along their routes. Google also added San Francisco-based Spin to their app this week.
The move is the latest in Santa Monica-based Bird's partnerships with mobili... |
| 08.08.2021 | The Station: An ADAS business bidding war, the gig worker fight heats up and Biden’s executive order | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 04.07.2021 | Bird: Scooter Rental for Persons with Disabilities to Launch Pilot Program in New York City | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 04 July 2021, 10:07 pm
Bird is a startup company that would launch its Scooter Rental program for Persons with Disabilities (PWD) in New York City, offering a service that helps in mobility and going around the ci... |
| 28.06.2021 | Bird Construction Inc. : Announces Mechanical And Electrical Maintenance Services Contract Award Valued At Approximately $75M | MISSISSAUGA, ON, June 28, 2021 /CNW/ - Bird Construction Inc. ("Bird") announced today that it has been awarded a three-year contract with a two-year extension option for mechanical and electrical maintenance services for the Nort... |
| 28.06.2021 | Bird Construction Inc. Announces Mechanical and Electrical Maintenance Services Contract Award Valued at Approximately $75 Million | Bird Construction Inc. announced that it has been awarded a three-year contract with a two-year extension option for mechanical and electrical maintenance services for the North West Redwater Partnership. The total value of the multi-year c... |
| 23.06.2021 | Bird launches shared e-bikes and opens its app to local shared operators | Bird has announced the launch of shared e-bikes to its fleet of e-scooters, which it says can be found in over 250 cities around the world. The shared micromobility provider is also launching a so-called ‘Smart Bikeshare’ platform that allo... |
| 24.05.2021 | The Station: London scooter winners and Ford’s most important EV | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 18.05.2021 | Hometown Rift? Bird Says It’s ‘Disappointed’ To Be Kicked Out of Santa Monica but Hints at Appeal | Four years ago, Bird Rides Inc. boldly began parking its first-generation e-scooters on the sidewalks of Santa Monica even though it lacked the proper permits.
What started as a novelty has now become a $800-billion worldwide business, with... |
| 18.05.2021 | Sequoia-backed e-scooter unicorn Bird just announced a SPAC. Here's 6 key takeaways from its investor deck | Bird chief executive Travis VanderZanden is taking the company public. Bird This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
California-based e-scooter firm Bird is the latest startup to g... |
| 18.05.2021 | Dott, Lime, and TIER get the green light on London’s e-scooter trials | For a city that likes to position itself as a world leader, London has been dragging its feet in the e-scooter sector. The controversy involves an electric scooter being classified as a Personal Light Electric Vehicles (PLEVs), and in so mu... |
| 12.05.2021 | Bird’s SPAC filing shows scooter-nomics just don’t fly | Scooter unicorn Bird is going public, per an agreement to merge with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. After rumors and reports circulated for months about an imminent deal, it has finally arrived.
First, a quick overview of t... |
| 12.05.2021 | Bird makes SPAC Official as it Reveals Spate of Injuries | Bird Rides Inc. made official Wednesday what dot.LA first reported Sunday night: The Santa Monica unicorn that started the e-scooter craze in 2017 will go public via SPAC at a $2.3 billion valuation.
The company also provided more details a... |
| 09.05.2021 | Exclusive: Bird Plans to Go Public via SPAC at $2.3 Billion Valuation | Bird Rides, the Santa-Monica e-scooter company that was once a startup darling but saw ridership plunge during the pandemic, is planning to go public through a so-called blank-check company, dot.LA has learned.
Bird is preparing to merge wi... |
| 06.05.2021 | BIRD CONSTRUCTION INC.
Bird Construction Inc. : Announces Civil Infrastructure Project Awards Valued at Approximately $135 Million | LISTING: TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE
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MISSISSAUGA, ON, May 5, 2021 /CNW/ - Bird Construction Inc. ("Bird") announced today that it has been awarded two contracts for civil works on two separate sites: an existing project sit... |
| 19.03.2021 | Office Hours: 4 Ways To Be an Intentional Mentor | Mentoring done right is an enriching part of your career. As a two-sided relationship, you have both an opportunity to seek out mentors who provide knowledge and counsel and to be one yourself, and each of these exchanges has its benefits. ... |
| 16.03.2021 | Scooter Renter Gears Up For Irish Launch | American scooter rental company Bird says it will launch an Irish operation once legislation permits, and is investing €126m into its European business.
Irishman Brendan O’Driscoll, currently global head of product at the company, will take... |
| 15.03.2021 | Bird to spend $150 million on European expansion plan | Shared micromobility startup Bird said it is investing $150 million into a European expansion plan that will including launching in more than 50 cities this year, a move that it says will double its footprint in the region.
This growth plan... |
| 03.03.2021 | URB-E’s collapsible containers haul in $5m Series A funding from UBS, AgFunder | URB-E, a US on-demand delivery platform built around proprietary vehicles, has raised $5 million in a Series A round led by Swiss financial services giant UBS.
AgFunder was among the other investors to take part in the raise. [Disclosure: A... |
| 05.02.2021 | In the post-COVID world, a new era for data privacy and micromobility emerges
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Send us a News Tip... | The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has transformed daily life for much of the planet has also altered the role of technology in wide-ranging areas.
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| 03.12.2020 | LA Tech Updates: Fidelity Reportedly Seeks to Unload Bird Shares at a Loss; Warner Bros Streaming 2021 Releases; Plug-In South LA's Accelerator for 2021 | Here are the latest updates on news affecting Los Angeles' startup and tech communities. Sign up for our newsletter and follow dot.LA on Twitter for more.
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| 01.12.2020 | It’s #GivingTuesday 2020 and these local tech orgs want your support | We all may have just gone over our budgets with Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday deals, but it’s time to pay it forward.
It’s #GivingTuesday, the charitable response to the stuff-focused shoppings days that have gone v... |
| 16.11.2020 | 5 key innovations taking e-scooters to a half-billion rides in 2021 | Travis VanderZanden Contributor
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Four years ago, shared e-scooters didn’t exist. Today, they’re on track to surpass half a billion rides globally by 2021, far outpacing ear... |
| 19.10.2020 | Bird Seeks to Unload Santa Monica HQ as Fund Marks Down Shares | After completing a costly renovation less than a year ago, the once high-flying e-scooter unicorn Bird Rides has put its airy and sleek Santa Monica offices up for sublease, dot.LA has learned. Prior to the pandemic, Bird was looking at tri... |
| 02.10.2020 | Weekly Wrap #22: Stripe's Pipe, Billion Dollar Shoes and Marketplace Listings | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 02.09.2020 | Tel Avivians clock over 5 million rides in 2 years with Bird e-scooters | Riders in Tel Aviv who use Bird e-scooters have completed nearly 5.5 million trips over the past two years, the shared electric scooter transportation company announced late last month.
According to Bird, one-third of these e-scooter rides ... |
| 04.06.2020 | California scooter sharing startup Bird is scrapping over 8 thousands of its electric scooters in the Middle East | Late last year, we wrote a story about how electric scooters are going to transform the $7 trillion global mobility market. Electric scooter is a new mode of transportation and it’s rapidly changing how people navigate the urban space. The ... |
| 28.05.2020 | How Bird Could Benefit From a Post-COVID World | Santa Monica-based Bird could benefit from a post COVID-19 world where fewer people are using public transportation, especially in urban areas in Europe and Asia where car ownership is more expensive, according to an optimistic new research... |
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| 25.02.2020 | Bird Tests New Payment System to Make Purchases at L.A. and Santa Monica Retailers | Bird Rides Inc., whose ubiquitous rental scooters are a staple of Los Angeles street corners, is getting into the electronic pay business.
The Santa Monica-based company said Tuesday it will unveil Bird Pay, allowing customers to purchase i... |
| 25.02.2020 | Bird is testing Bird Pay, which lets users purchase items from local businesses using its main app | Another on-demand transport app is making a move into payments to expand the existing relationship with its customers (and subsequent margins that it makes from serving them). Bird today announced the launch of Bird Pay, a service that will... |
| 28.01.2020 | E-scooter unicorn Bird gobbles up its German competitor Circ, grabs €68M | Bird, the leader in micro-mobility, has recently announced the acquisition of Berlin-based Circ, resulting in Bird adding more than 300 employees to its European operations.
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| 28.01.2020 |
Bird Acquires Circ, Raises $75M More
| Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter company Bird has raised $75M more, and acquired a Berlin-based Circ, which operates its own scooter business in Europe. According to Bird, the additional funding was an extension to its Series D funding ... |
| 27.01.2020 | Bird Raises $75M in Series D; Acquires Circ | Bird, a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of micromobility solutions, acquired Circ, a Berlin based European micromobility leader.
The company also announced a $75m extension to its Series D funding round, bringing the size of the round to $3... |
