{"id":42289,"date":"2018-06-27T13:37:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newserver.fyb.de\/mobility-db-invests-in-us-start-ups-ridecell-and-gokid\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T13:37:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T11:37:25","slug":"mobility-db-invests-in-us-start-ups-ridecell-and-gokid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyb.de\/en\/mobility-db-invests-in-us-start-ups-ridecell-and-gokid\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobility: DB invests in US start-ups Ridecell and&nbsp;GoKid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank\u00adfurt a. m. \u2014 <strong>DB Digi\u00adtal Ventures, through which Deut\u00adsche Bahn<\/strong> promo\u00adtes new digi\u00adtal busi\u00adness models, is inves\u00adt\u00ading in two young U.S. compa\u00adnies. With <strong>Ride\u00adcell<\/strong> and <strong>GoKid<\/strong>, DB is focu\u00adsing on inno\u00adva\u00adtive tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies and two offe\u00adrings that meaningfully comple\u00adment the core rail busi\u00adness and could play a decisive role in the mobi\u00adlity market in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeut\u00adsche Bahn was the startup of the first indus\u00adtrial revo\u00adlu\u00adtion. Today, we are brin\u00adging start\u00adups on board to expand our tech\u00adno\u00adlogy exper\u00adtise and deve\u00adlop connec\u00adted, custo\u00admi\u00adzed offe\u00adrings for our custo\u00admers in the Mobi\u00adlity 4.0 era,\u201d said <strong>Prof. Sabina Jeschke,<\/strong> DB Board Member for Digi\u00adta\u00adliza\u00adtion and Technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GoKid brings child\u00adren safely to school<\/strong><br>\nNew York-based startup GoKid makes life easier for parents. The company opera\u00adtes a carpoo\u00adling plat\u00adform that gets child\u00adren to school, sports, or other recrea\u00adtio\u00adnal acti\u00advi\u00adties with each other safely and on time. GoKid has alre\u00adady orga\u00adni\u00adzed more than 100,000 trips, prima\u00adrily in the USA. Parents save time and money and protect the envi\u00adron\u00adment because trips are shared and bund\u00adled. \u201cWe want to support DB\u2019s commit\u00adment to new forms of mobi\u00adlity with our carpools for school\u00adchild\u00adren\u201d explains Dr. Stefa\u00adnie Lemcke, CEO&nbsp;GoKid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ride\u00adcell is the worl\u00add\u2019s leading provi\u00adder of carsha\u00adring and ridesha\u00adring plat\u00adforms, as well as for control\u00adling auto\u00adno\u00admous fleets<\/strong><br>\nFoun\u00added in 2009 and based in San Fran\u00adcisco, Ride\u00adcell has deve\u00adlo\u00adped smart soft\u00adware for car sharing, carpoo\u00adling and auto\u00adno\u00admous fleet manage\u00adment opera\u00adti\u00adons. Over 20 million rides have alre\u00adady been arran\u00adged via the Ride\u00adcell plat\u00adform. \u201cWith our end-to-end inte\u00adgra\u00adtion, mobi\u00adlity compa\u00adnies and cities can quickly launch and expand their own car and ridesha\u00adring services in the market and increase their utiliza\u00adtion\u201d says Aarjav Trivedi, CEO Ride\u00adcell. With Ride\u00adcell, DB sees the poten\u00adtial to offer all forms of use for vehicle fleets united on one plat\u00adform \u2014 car sharing, ridesha\u00adring and on-demand services, inclu\u00adding auto\u00adno\u00admous vehic\u00adles. This would allow trips to be even more targe\u00adted to meet custo\u00admer&nbsp;needs.<\/p>\n<p>DB Digi\u00adtal Ventures will provide around \u20ac100 million in venture capi\u00adtal by 2019 to work with start\u00adups to promote inno\u00adva\u00adtions and disrup\u00adtive busi\u00adness models in mobi\u00adlity and logi\u00adstics that will bene\u00adfit DB custo\u00admers in the long&nbsp;term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank\u00adfurt a. m. \u2014 DB Digi\u00adtal Ventures, through which Deut\u00adsche Bahn promo\u00adtes new digi\u00adtal busi\u00adness models, is inves\u00adt\u00ading in two young U.S. compa\u00adnies. 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