Rotterdam-based booking platform UmobWhich combines local and international mobility suppliers in a single app, today they announced that they have collected $ 3.5 million in a new funding round to accelerate the growth of sustainable mobility in Europe.
This latest € 3.5 million dollar funding round has followed the previous round of Million Million in the end of 2023. Soon, the UMOB Finnish company achieved Mass Global, which was considered the first MAAS in the world, and its app ‘Whim’, the first commercial mobility-a-Servis (MAAS) platform. Mash Global had earlier collected 70 million from BP Ventures, Toyota and Mitsubishi among others.
BB JoresenUmobe’s CEO and co-founder said: “We have spent the past few years to create a solid and skeletal platform that makes travel with various mobility suppliers make it easier for both customers and business users. The newly raised capital enables us to fully focus on our growth: by building our strong international relations, we aim to expand our services further across the continent, stimulate the growth of sustainable and accessible mobilityThe “
Established by BB Jorisen and Remon Pauls in 2021, UMOB is an MAS platform that combines mobility suppliers through complete integration in an application. Their mission is to fight the many parked cars by providing a complex alternative option for traffic jams, traffic, emissions and ownership of a vehicle.
Jorisen (CEO) brings previous experience in the mobility of companies like General Motors and Greenwells. Poweles (CCO) has raised more than $ 1 million funds for several startups, and was the former CEO and co-founder of Go Shaking, one of the largest suppliers of the Netherlands, shared by the Netherlands.
It provides access to public transport, taxi and shared transport, including scooters, (electrical) bicycles and cars shared by a single account. UMOB’s ambition is to become a European MAAS platform and become a connection between government and suppliers to overcome the challenges of mobility in cities.
The UMOB believes that the demand for MAS solution is increasingly, the challenge is to increase the limited space in the city environment. Cities are following sustainable targets and are more inclusive and are trying to create options for flexible mobility. The goal of UMOB is to provide an answer to the challenges of this urban dynamics.
Its international booking platform has completely integrated all transport, which allows travel to plan and pay through a single app, even when a journey involves multiple transport methods.
With the new fund, the company’s goal is to continue to expand its services in the main and internationally major cities, already eleven countries throughout Europe.
Royman PaulCo-founder of CCO and UMOB, added: “What started as a vision has become a strong technical solution to the home fully developed, with the municipality and mobility to the UMB as strategic partners. With the help of our investors, we are now preparing for the next chapter: to completely integrate European travel services on a single platform.“
Since the launch of the platform in February 2021, the UMOB has achieved strong growth in its domestic market, as well as the experience of preliminary expansion in main European markets including Germany, France and Spain. The platform provides access to more than 500,000 dynamic vehicles provided by companies such as lime, bird and kooltra, full public transport networks and all large European taxi suppliers in multiple Western-European countries.
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