Tres meses despu\u00e9s del inicio de su proyecto piloto en Berl\u00edn, el servicio de suscripci\u00f3n de bicicletas el\u00e9ctricas Dance ha completado con \u00e9xito una ronda de financiaci\u00f3n de 15 millones de euros. La empresa de los fundadores de SoundCloud Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss y Alexander Ljung planea ahora lanzar el servicio en otras ciudades europeas. Tambi\u00e9n podr\u00eda producirse una expansi\u00f3n a Estados Unidos.<\/p>\n
El \u00fanico inversor en la ronda de financiaci\u00f3n es Holtzbrinck Ventures, seg\u00fan declar\u00f3 el cofundador Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss en una entrevista. El anuncio de la empresa suena algo diferente: Holtzbrinck Ventures ha liderado la ronda de financiaci\u00f3n de serie A. Esta redacci\u00f3n dejar\u00eda espacio para m\u00e1s inversores, pero seg\u00fan Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss, no es el caso.<\/p>\n
Dance empez\u00f3 a funcionar en Berl\u00edn en julio, pero como proyecto piloto que era, al principio estaba limitado: En aquel momento, la suscripci\u00f3n de una e-bike s\u00f3lo era posible mediante invitaci\u00f3n. La idea que subyace al servicio es bastante sencilla: Suscribirse a una e-bike en l\u00ednea y recibirla directamente en la puerta de su casa en el plazo de un d\u00eda, sin tener que comprarla ni mantenerla. En Berl\u00edn, la suscripci\u00f3n cuesta 59 euros al mes, pero el precio final tras la operaci\u00f3n de prueba a\u00fan no se ha fijado.<\/p>\n
\"Nos hemos visto inundados de respuestas positivas de todo el mundo desde que anunciamos nuestro programa piloto s\u00f3lo por invitaci\u00f3n, y ha quedado meridianamente claro cu\u00e1nto deseo, demanda y entusiasmo hay por un servicio como DANCE en todo el mundo\", afirm\u00f3 Quidenus-Wahlforss.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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The special e-bikes are also an important part of the service. Even the most modern e-bikes today are still “based on designs, technologies and philosophies that are decades old”. To exploit the potential of networked communities, however, one needs sensors, data and algorithms. The pilot in Berlin still runs on conventional e-bikes, but from early 2021 Dance wants to use its own model to control costs and durability. However, it remains to be seen how much the final model, which may be produced by a Taiwanese manufacturer, will differ from the design Dance published on its website<\/a> this summer. There you can see a rather futuristic-looking e-bike with three-spoke rims and a low-maintenance belt instead of the chain.<\/p>\n “Unfortunately, the majority of e-bikes on the market today have some combination of poor design, high upfront costs and cumbersome maintenance,” says Rainer Maerkle, General Partner at HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. “We analyzed the overall mobility market, evaluated all The Berlin company has not indicated which cities they plan to expand to.<\/p>\n Dance is not alone in the market for e-bike subscriptions: one of the market leaders is Swapfiets, but the Dutch company also offer conventional bicycles on subscription. With the ADAC subscription for e-bikes and the provider E-Bike-Abo, the two-wheelers must be rented for at least three months.<\/p>\n venturebeat.com<\/a>, dance.co<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmeans of transport, and crunched the numbers on all types of business models for a few years before we found what we were looking for. DANCE is by the far the most viable future of biking, bridging the gap between e-bike ownership and more joyful accessibility to go places”.<\/p>\n