The Berlin Mobility Startup door2door announces two more prominent investors. With Karl-Thomas Neumann, the former Opel CEO joins the Berlin-based company. In addition, former hubris investor Ariel Lüdi is investing. He was a director there after the sale of Hybris to SAP. Both follow Ex-CompuNet Co-Founder and Hybris investor Dr. Günter Lamperstorfer and the ex-Head of Science of UBER Kevin Novak. No question about it – an impressive quality of consultants who will support the Berlin Mobility Startup with their expertise, industry experience and not least financial means.
Solutions for urban mobility
The Berlin-based technology company door2door develops future-oriented solutions for urban mobility. door2door offers cities and public transport companies a technology platform for independently operating their own shuttle service on demand in public transport. In addition, the startup is currently developing a platform for autonomous public transport fleets.
Only in February, the company, together with Europe’s largest mobility club, the ADAC e.V., launched the ride sharing service ‘allygator shuttle’ on the streets of Berlin. Via the door2door mobility platform, the new chauffeur service now serves the entire Berlin S-Bahn ring every Friday and Saturday from 5 pm to 1 am. Users can have a total of 25 electric vehicles from different manufacturers drive to their personal desired destination in the action area. ‘allygator shuttle’ bundles several passengers who have a similar route. This works with an intelligent algorithm and brings passengers safely and comfortably to their destination. In this way, vehicles are optimally utilised, traffic and emissions are reduced – and the city is made more liveable.
The whole thing can be booked via app, but you still have to be invited. In the three-month pilot phase, ‘allygator shuttle’ in Berlin is available to all users free of charge. Otherwise, the startup earns money through a license fee for the technology they offer. Ridesharing offers are particularly interesting due to the possibility of seamless integration into existing public transport networks in the cities. Here, the city of Berlin wants to play a pioneering role for modern mobility and actively promotes services in the German capital.
door2door has 100 employees from over 30 countries in Berlin and Porto Alegre, Brazil. Current partners include ZF, Arriva UK and Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft.
“door2door will drastically change the way we move around the world in cities. I look forward to working with an exceptional team to bring new mobility solutions to the road sustainably. The technologies to solve current challenges from congestion to air pollution are already available. In almost all other areas of mobility, new technologies are causing a real upheaval – it’s time for public transport to shift up a gear,” explains Karl-Thomas Neumann in the press release.
door2door is one of the youngest members of the World Economic Forum and was named European Entrepreneurial Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan.
“We are currently experiencing the greatest structural change in the mobility industry since the end of the 19th century.”
In the context of my visit report from Lisbon, I had already listed a Lisbon study carried out by the OECD. It shows that a Rideshare shuttle system such as the one offered by door2door, which is demand-driven and integrated into the existing public transport infrastructure, can drastically reduce the number of private cars on the roads and significantly reduce both traffic and exhaust emissions. With only three on-demand shuttle buses, in which passengers who have a similar route share the journeys and are embedded in the existing public transport system, 100 private cars can be replaced.
You can read more about our report from Lisbon here.
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