Rotterdam-based reserving platform umob, which mixes native and worldwide mobility suppliers in a single single app, introduced immediately they raised €3.5 million in a brand new funding spherical to speed up the expansion of sustainable mobility in Europe.
This newest €3.5 million funding spherical follows a earlier spherical of €6 million on the finish of 2023. Shortly after, umob acquired the Finnish firm MaaS World, which was thought of the world’s first MaaS, and its app ‘Whim’, the primary industrial Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform. MaaS World had beforehand raised €70 million from, amongst others, BP Ventures, Toyota, and Mitsubishi.
Bibi Jorissen, CEO and Co-founder of umob, says: “Now we have spent the previous few years constructing a stable and scalable platform that really makes touring with totally different mobility suppliers simpler for each shoppers and enterprise customers. The newly raised capital allows us to completely deal with development: by constructing upon our sturdy worldwide relationships, we purpose to additional broaden our companies all through the continent, stimulating the expansion of sustainable and accessible mobility.”
Based in 2021 by Bibi Jorissen and Raymon Pouwels, umob is a MaaS platform that mixes mobility suppliers by way of full integration into one app. Their mission is to fight visitors jams, congestion, emissions and an abundance of parked vehicles by offering an uncomplicated various to proudly owning a automobile.
Jorissen (CEO) brings prior expertise within the mobility sector from firms resembling Normal Motors and Greenwheels. Pouwels (CCO) has raised over €100 million in funds for a number of startups and was the previous CEO and co-founder of GO Sharing, one of many largest suppliers of shared scooters and bikes within the Netherlands.
It presents entry to public transport, taxis and shared transport, together with shared scooters, (electrical) bicycles and vehicles, by way of a single account. umob’s ambition is to develop right into a European MaaS platform and change into the hyperlink between governments and suppliers to beat the mobility challenges in cities.
umob believes that the demand for MaaS options is rising, pushed by rising challenges to handle restricted area in city environments. Cities are pursuing sustainability objectives and searching for to create extra inclusive and versatile mobility choices. umob goals to supply a solution to those city mobility challenges.
Its worldwide reserving platform reportedly absolutely integrates all transport, permitting journey to be deliberate and paid for by way of one single app, even when a journey includes a number of modes of transportation.
With the brand new funding, the corporate goals to proceed increasing its service in main cities each domestically and internationally, having already set foot in eleven international locations all through Europe.
Raymon Pouwels, CCO and Co-founder of umob, provides: “What began as a imaginative and prescient has shortly grown to change into a strong technical answer developed absolutely in-house, positioning umob as a strategic accomplice for municipalities and mobility suppliers. With the assist of our buyers, we are actually getting ready for the following chapter: absolutely integrating European journey companies in a single single platform.”
Since launching the platform in February 2024, umob has reportedly skilled sturdy development in its home market, in addition to early growth in key European markets together with Germany, France and Spain. The platform presents entry to greater than 500,000 shared mobility automobiles supplied by firms resembling Lime, Chicken and Cooltra, full public transport networks in a number of Western-European international locations, and all main European taxi suppliers.
