Skip (company)

Skip
Formerly
 Waybots, Inc.
Private
Industry Scooter sharing
Founded Winter 2017
Founders Mike Wadhera
Sanjay Dastoor
Headquarters San Francisco, California
Areas served
 Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C.
Website skipscooters.com

Skip is a San Francisco-based company which provides a scooter-sharing system in three American cities. The company was founded by Mike Wadhera and Sanjay Dastoor during Y Combinator's winter 2018 class.[1] Skip differentiates itself from competitors by making sturdier scooters with larger batteries, offering instructional classes, and working with cities before rolling out.[2]

History

Waybots was founded in winter 2017 by the creators of Boosted Board, as higher-end competitor to other scooter-sharing systems.

In May 2018, Skip raised a $6M seed round of funding.[3] In June 2018, the company raised an additional $25M in its Series A round.[4]

Areas served

In February 2018, then Waybots launched in its first city, Washington, D.C., as part of a pilot program.[5]

Then, in summer 2018, Skip launched in Portland, Oregon, as part of the city's shared scooter pilot program.[6]

At the end of August 2018, the city of San Francisco gave Skip and Scoot permission to operate dockless scooters in the city.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "YC Companies". Y Combinator. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  2. ↑ Constine, Josh (17 May 2018). "Boosted Boards founders launch heavy-duty scooter renter Skip". TechCrunch. Oath Inc. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Skip Scooters". Crunchbase. Oath Inc. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  4. ↑ Efrati, Amir; Weinberg, Cory; Zhang, Yunan (12 June 2018). "Scooter Mania Continues as 'Skip' Nabs $25 Million, 'Bird' Goes to China". The Information. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  5. ↑ Goldchain, Michelle (28 February 2018). "Waybots's scooter-sharing service arrives in D.C." Curbed DC. Vox Media. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  6. ↑ Herron, Elise (8 August 2018). "E-Scooter Company Skip Proposes a Portland Program to Give Homeless People a Hot Meal to Ride Scooters to Charging Center". Willamette Week. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  7. ↑ Versano, Carlo; Corba, Jacqueline; Webb, Bridgette (31 August 2018). "Skip CEO: We Do Scooters Without 'Controversy and Complaints'". Cheddar. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
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