Spin (Ford Motor Company)

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Last activity: 10.06.2026

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Ride The Moment. Electric scooter-share, giving people the Freedom to Move.

We provide high-quality scooters, a reliable and easy to use app, top-notch customer service, and affordable prices. Simply download, scan to unlock, and ride.

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Overview

Location

United States, California, San Francisco

Employees

1001-5000

Total raised

$8M

Founded date

2017

Funding Rounds 1

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Oct 10, 2025	How an e-scooter dream shaped a micromobility entrepreneur	Over the past five years, several major micromobility operators have exited European markets or specific cities due to regulatory changes, financial pressures, or strategic pivots. Bird pulled out of Germany, Sweden, and Norway in October 2...
May 5, 2025	Электросамокатчиков выводят из тени
Aug 11, 2024	AeroShield: Material Science MIT Spin Out Company Raises $5 Million	AeroShield Materials, an MIT spinout developing advanced technology for energy efficiency applications in the built environment, announced the opening of its new manufacturing facility in Waltham, Massachusetts, and the closing of $5 millio...
Apr 6, 2020	The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19	Hi, and welcome back to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and packages travel from Point A to Point B. I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. If this is your first time, ...
Sep 25, 2019	JUMP, Lime, Scoot and Spin receive permits to operate scooters in SF	Electric scooter providers JUMP, Lime, Scoot and Spin have just been granted permits to operate their respective services in San Francisco beginning October 15, 2019 *. This is part of the city’s longer-term permitting program for electric ...
Dec 12, 2018	In a Spin: Scooter startup acquired for $140 million just two years after launch	Spin scooters. Source: Supplied. San Francisco scooter startup Spin has been acquired, reportedly for $US100 million ($138.8 million), less than two years after it first hit the streets. In a Medium post, Spin’s founders confirmed the start...
Oct 31, 2018	Xiaomi doesn’t want Lyft using its electric scooters	Xiaomi, the electric scooter manufacturer that a handful of the shared electric scooter services in the U.S. (like ones from Lyft, Spin and Bird) rely on, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lyft. In the letter, obtained by TechCrunch, Xi...
May 11, 2018	Update: Bird buys more scooters	Note: This story has been updated to indicate that the deal is worth tens of millions not hundreds of millions and includes comment from other manufacturers. It seems like all is fair in love and scooter wars. In the battle royal to become ...
Mar 9, 2018	Bird is raising $100 million to become the Uber of electric scooters	“It feels like investing in Uber when it first launched.” That’s what one investor said of the hot new Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup, Bird — an electric scooter company that’s now in the process of raising as much as $100 million on a ...
Feb 13, 2018	This former Uber (and Lyft) exec just raised $15 million for his controversial e-scooter startup: Bird	Travis VanderZanden. If you’ve been following the fast-changing transportation industry, it’s a name that may sound familiar. Until September 2016, VanderZanden was VP of growth at Uber and before that, COO of its fierce rival Lyft, which h...
Feb 8, 2018	Bike-sharing startup Spin is getting into scooter-sharing	Because there are not enough ways to get around major cities and campuses, Spin is working to launch stationless electric scooter-sharing. These aren’t the electric scooters you see in San Francisco, operated by Scoot Networks. These are es...
Jan 8, 2018	Spin unveils its stationless electric bike	Spin is adding an electric bike to its fleet of station-less bicycles for bike sharing. The Spin bike can travel up to 50 miles with a full charge and has batteries that the company says can be easily swapped by Spin’s operations teams. The...
Nov 10, 2017	Bike-share platform Spin poaches Seattle transit regulator and launches in a dozen new cities	Spin, one of several dockless bike-sharing companies now vying for dominance in a number of U.S. cities, has a new weapon to wield against its competitors: Kyle Rowe, the architect of Seattle’s permissive and apparently successful bike-shar...
Sep 8, 2017	Grishin Robotics global bikesharing to “make smart cities a reality”	Grishin Robotics, an international venture fund with Russian roots, is investing massively in bikesharing platforms. Over the past four months the fund has completed no less than three deals in this segment: In May, it led an $8 million Ser...
Jul 25, 2017	Spin brings its pick-up-anywhere bike sharing to South San Francisco	Spin, the bike-sharing service that lets you pick up and drop off a bike anywhere in a city, is coming to South San Francisco. The company’s dockless bike-sharing service made its debut in Seattle last week, and is now spinning its way down...
Jul 7, 2017	Seattle Week in Review: MSFT Sales Reorg, UW, Phytelligence, & More	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Lots to catch up on this holiday-shortened week in Seattle tech. We’re reviewing a Microsoft sales reorganization and staff reduction; a battery-free cellphone from the Univer...
May 26, 2017	Term Sheet — Friday, May 26	OPEN MIC Good morning. Term Sheet will be off Monday for Memorial Day. Which means it’s the Friday before a long weekend. Which means it’s time for some feedback. Strap in! Paid Content You can't secure what you can't see From ExtraHop DS w...
May 25, 2017	Spin Secures $8M in Series A Funding	Spin, a San Francisco, CA-based stationless bikeshare system, raised $8m in Series A funding. The round was led by Grishin Robotics with participation from Exponent and CRCM, along with Quora co-founder Charlie Cheever and Dropbox investor ...
May 25, 2017	Spin raises $8 million as bike-sharing battle heats up in the US	Bike sharing has taken a turn in the U.S., following trends in China. The new mode is “dockless,” where companies distribute bikes around a city or campus to be rented per trip instead of dispensing them from one station. The bikes are trac...
Mar 15, 2017	LimeBike raises $12 million to roll out bike sharing without kiosks in the US	A startup called LimeBike has raised $12 million in venture funding to make Chinese-style bike sharing mainstream in the U.S. Andreessen Horowitz led the round, joined by IDG Ventures, DCM Ventures and other investors who declined to be nam...
Jan 26, 2017	Spin — сервис по аренде велосипедов, который работает без автоматических станций проката Статьи редакции	Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — сервис по аренде велосипедов Spin, который работает без станций проката. Spin — американский сервис по аренде велосипедов. Его основное отличие перед городскими европейскими проектами состоит в том, что Spin ...
Jan 25, 2017	Spin wants to bring dock-less bike sharing to the US	Bikeshare programs in the US have mostly consisted of kiosks, or stations, where users can unlock a bike, take it off the rack, use it and return it once their errand or joy ride is done. Some only allow subscribers others charge by the hou...

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FAQ about Spin (Ford Motor Company)

When was Spin (Ford Motor Company) founded?

Spin (Ford Motor Company) was founded in 2017.

How much funding has Spin (Ford Motor Company) raised?

Spin (Ford Motor Company) has raised $8M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Spin (Ford Motor Company)?

Parsers VC has collected 23 articles mentioning Spin (Ford Motor Company), among them “How an e-scooter dream shaped a micromobility entrepreneur” (Oct 10, 2025) and “Электросамокатчиков выводят из тени” (May 5, 2025).

Is Spin (Ford Motor Company) still active?

Yes, Spin (Ford Motor Company) is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 10, 2026.