umob co-founder, Raymon Pouwels | Picture credit score: umob
Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has a brand new Mobility-as-a-Service platform, umob, that brings collectively all mobility suppliers in a single app.
The corporate was based by Raymon Pouwels, former founder and CEO of GO Sharing, along with Bibi Jorissen.
Customers of the umob app simply want one account and fee technique to finish their journey utilizing varied technique of transportation.
“Collectively we will supply the density wanted to extend shared mobility,” says Raymon Pouwels.
Pouwels, along with his experience as founder and CEO of GO Sharing, believes that umob represents the subsequent vital improvement within the accessibility of mobility for everyone.
“To compete with possession, we nonetheless have to take a significant leap ahead by way of comfort. Now that GO Sharing is in good palms, I proceed my mission with umob,” provides Pouwels.
Transient about umob
Each metropolis’s basis is its means to maneuver round. This is the reason umob was based, to assist folks transfer sustainably, successfully, and simply from A to B.
“As know-how continues to evolve, so do our choices of transportation, and that’s the place umob is available in. Reality is, mobility is the lifeblood of our cities and important for our every day lives. That can keep,” says the corporate.
By creating a single platform that connects all present types of transport, umob desires to encourage folks and cities to utterly decide to sustainable journey.
“It’s our mission to supply our customers with one single app to experience all of them, for ourselves and for our planet – as our slogan states.”
It hopes that governments, localities, and transportation suppliers can collaborate to enhance the shopper expertise and assure essentially the most environment friendly and sustainable methods are in place.
umob goals to scale up internationally
The umob platform places the consumer first and seeks to combine varied modes of transportation, together with taxis, shared scooters, and bicycles.
As per a press release from umob, 10 different suppliers have agreed to combine this yr and the platform at present has connections to the preliminary providers.
Consequently, along with taxis and public transit, there will likely be greater than 200,000 shared cars accessible. Though the Netherlands are initially the primary emphasis, umob hopes to quickly broaden globally.
Pouwels says, “It’s easy for shoppers: you wish to have a way of transport at your disposal inside a 3-minute stroll. To realize this, a supplier of shared scooters should supply greater than 5,000 autos in a metropolis like Amsterdam.”
“At present, solely 350 are allowed per supplier. However all mobility suppliers collectively, together with taxis and public transport, do present the specified density of provide,” says Pouwels.
GO Sharing was acquired by Turkey’s BinBin
Based in 2019 by Raymon Pouwels, Doeke Boersma and Donny van den Oever, Go Sharing goals to make transportation accessible and sustainable whereas lowering its visible impression on the city surroundings.
The corporate expanded into many international locations, together with Italy and Turkey, and raised a complete of €60M in growth capital. After leaving unproductive cities to take care of its monetary stability, GO Sharing was purchased by Turkish shared transport firm BinBin at first of this yr.
Pouwels provides, “I’ve seen the shared mobility market develop strongly, however we’re nonetheless within the early phases of an unlimited change in conduct relating to the possession and use of mobility.”
“To be able to compete with property, we have to take a significant leap ahead by way of comfort. Now that GO Sharing is in good palms, I proceed my mission with umob.”
