Bird, the once high-flying electric scooter startup, has filed for bankruptcy. The Miami-based company announced its Chapter 11 filing two years after going public, one year after warning bankruptcy could be on the horizon and three months after being delisted from the New York Stock...
Electric transportation startup Bird has added shared eBikes to its fleet of vehicles along with the launch of Bird Bike, a shared smart vehicle, the company announced in a Wednesday (June 23) press release. The Silicon Valley company already operates electric scooters in more than...
The weekly SPAC/IPO Tracker shows that through the middle of the month, year-to-date banking related listings stood at 25, trailed by a baker’s dozen of payment firms coming to market. And drilling down into the most recent activity, we see that there have been a...
Silicon Valley vehicle-sharing startup Bird is planning to go public with the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Switchback II Corporation. Travis VanderZanden, founder and CEO of Bird, said in a press release that the company was launched in 2017 with an eye on the environment and a...
April 22, 2024
Payments platform Airwallex has launched a partnership with global communications platform Bird, formerly known as MessageBird. The collaboration, announced Monday (April 22), is designed to power Bird’s international payments operations across the company’s customers’ preferred channels, including WhatsApp, Email, SMS, Voice, WeChat, Messenger and Instagram. “The global nature of Bird’s business — with multiple currencies flowing in and out […]
December 20, 2023
Bird, the once high-flying electric scooter startup, has filed for bankruptcy. The Miami-based company announced its Chapter 11 filing two years after going public, one year after warning bankruptcy could...
June 23, 2021
Electric transportation startup Bird has added shared eBikes to its fleet of vehicles along with the launch of Bird Bike, a shared smart vehicle, the company announced in a Wednesday...
May 12, 2021
Silicon Valley vehicle-sharing startup Bird is planning to go public with the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Switchback II Corporation. Travis VanderZanden, founder and CEO of Bird, said in a press...
