Bird Stock
Dockless electric scooters
About Bird Stock
Bird operates as a dockless electric scooter company developing a vehicle sharing platform. The company works closely with cities to make transportation more environmentally friendly by reducing car usage, traffic, and congestion. The scooters are available in 100+ cities in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Bird offers three vehicles: Bird Two, Bird One and Bird Cruiser.
The company was founded in 2017 by a former Uber and Lyft executive, Travis VanderZanden. Bird is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, United States.
Investors
Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec
CRV
DoorDash, Bird, Twitter, ClassPass, Simplivity, Oportun, Cybereason, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Patreon, Light
GoldCrest Capital
Sequoia Capital
Airbnb, DoorDash, Instacart, Moderna Therapeutics, Nubank, Rappi, Bird, Dropbox, Jawbone, Stripe
Simon Ventures
Sound Ventures
Bird, Fundbox, SentinelOne, wefox Group, Matterport, Calm, Atrium LTS, Cedar, PubNub, Elysium Health
Upfront Ventures
Bird, TrueCar, ZestFinance, thredUP, Apeel Sciences, Factual, FabFitFun, Luxe, Invoca, DataSift
Funding History
| April 2017 | $0 |
|---|---|
| June 2017 | $4.0M |
| October 2017 | $14.5M |
| March 2018 | $100M |
| June 2018 | $191M |
| December 2018 | $318M |
| August 2019 | $568M |
| August 2019 | $9.6M |
| January 2020 | $121M |
| January 2020 | $12.0M |
Management
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Travis VanderZanden
Press
TechCrunch - Feb, 17 2020
TechCrunch - Jan, 11 2020
Business Insider - Jan, 9 2020
TechCrunch - Oct, 22 2019
New York Times - Oct, 10 2019
TechCrunch - Sep, 25 2019
Forbes - Sep, 19 2019
crainscleveland - Aug, 26 2019
TechCrunch - Aug, 1 2019
TechCrunch - Jul, 22 2019
TechCrunch - Jul, 12 2019
theinformation - May, 8 2019
theverge - Apr, 30 2019
TechCrunch - Mar, 7 2019
TechCrunch - Feb, 3 2019
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