Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Bird Launches National Expansion, Adds San Francisco, San Jose, DC

Santa Monica-based Bird, which offers up rentals of electric scooters for the "last mile" of your commute, has expanded to San Francisco, San Jose, and Washington, DC. The startup--which just raised a massive $100M for expansion of its services this month, also said it is working with cities to share in revenues made from riders on those vehicles. Bird previously only offered up its services in Santa Monica, San Diego, and some other parts of Los Angeles. Bird is venture backed by Valor Equity Partners, Index Ventures, Craft Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, Tusk Ventures and Upfront Ventures. The company's CEO is Travis VanderZanden. Bird recently hired on well known LA angel investor Paige Craig as its Head of U.S. City Operations.