“Can a post-bankruptcy micromobility operator survive as a focused city-by-city scooter and bikeshare service after the consolidation of the shared-mobility market?”
Founded 2017 as the original dockless e-scooter sharing pioneer in Santa Monica, growing explosively to a $2.75B valuation by 2019 on the back of urban micromobility hype. Aggressive acquisitions (Scoot 2019, Circ 2020) failed to deliver unit economics; post-SPAC IPO the company filed Chapter 11 in 2023 and was acquired out of bankruptcy. The operating entity today is Blue Jay Transit, Inc., running Bird-branded scooter and bikeshare fleets in partner cities — a consumer micromobility operator, not the embedded-finance platform that the bird.com (with a dot-com) communications API uses.
Bird processes payments through PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Bird was founded by Travis VanderZanden and is founded in 2017, headquartered in Santa Monica, California, United States.
Bird has raised $623M+ (pre-bankruptcy) in total (latest round: Series D extension, 2020; valuation: $2.75B (Series D, 2019)).
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