Tech Company Financing Transactions

Bird Funding Round

On 3/12/2018, Bird received $100 million in Series B funding from Index Ventures, Valor Equity Partners and Craft Ventures.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
3/12/2018
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$100,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

Index Ventures (Lead Investor) (Damir Becirovic)

Valor Equity Partners (Lead Investor) (Antonio Gracias)

Craft Ventures (David Sacks)

Goldcrest Investment

Tusk Ventures

Upfront Ventures

Proceeds Purpose
This investment will be used to bring Bird's first-in-the-world fleet of environmentally-friendly, shared electric scooters to 50 U.S. markets by the end of 2018 and expand its team.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Transportation
Mailing Address
406 Bdwy. 369
Santa Monica, CA 90401
USA
Email Address
Overview
Bird is a dockless electric scooter company.
Profile
Bird LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Bird Company Twitter Account
Company News
Bird News
Facebook
Bird on Facebook
YouTube
Bird on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Travis VanderZanden
  Travis VanderZanden LinkedIn Profile  Travis VanderZanden Twitter Account  Travis VanderZanden News  Travis VanderZanden on Facebook


 

 

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