CycleHop

CycleHop LLC is a bicycle sharing platform and mobility company that operates bike share systems in fifteen cities in North America, including Mobi in Vancouver, British Columbia.

CycleHop LLC
Typeprivate
FoundedNovember 1, 2011 (2011-11-01) in Miami Beach, Florida
FounderJosh Squire[1]
Headquarters
Miami Beach, Florida
,
United States
Websitecyclehop.com

History

The company's founder traces its history back to 1997[2] and the company's first patent for an "unattended automated bicycle rental station."[3]

In April 2014, the company bought Capital Bixi company in Canada and in October re-launched the service under VeloGo brand in Ottawa.[4] In 2016, it launched bike-sharing service Mobi in Vancouver, sponsored by Shaw Communications.[5] However, in June 2019, the company announced that was pulling out from Ottawa.[6]

As of January 2015, the firm operated bike-sharing systems in seven cities.[7]

In March 2018, the firm launched HOPR (pronounced like “hopper”), a mobile app that allows to search for public transport, car share and bike share options.[8] As of 2018, it was running bike-sharing systems in 15 cities in the USA and Canada.[8]

The company had planned to move its headquarters from Miami Beach to Santa Monica in 2015,[9] but remained headquartered in Florida as of 2019.[10]

References
  1. Howell, Mike (February 24, 2016). "Bike share CEO promises not to undercut". Vancouver Courier. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  2. "CycleHop I About".
  3. "Unattended automated bicycle rental station".
  4. "New Ottawa-Gatineau bike share service VeloGo launches". CBC.ca. October 10, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  5. Alter, Lloyd (April 24, 2018). "Vancouver's Mobi bike share system is just weird". TreeHugger. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  6. "VeloGO a no go in Ottawa-Gatineau this summer". CBC.ca. June 22, 2019. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  7. Austen, Ian (January 9, 2015). "The Uphill Push to Save a Bike-Share Pioneer". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  8. Bevilacqua, Matt (March 12, 2018). "HOPR Is an All-in-One App for Bike Share, Ride Share, and Public Transit". Bicycling. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  9. Simpson, David Mark (January 29, 2015). "CycleHop moving HQ to Santa Monica, eyes L.A. bikeshare". Santa Monica Daily Press. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  10. Lynch, Ryan (April 29, 2019). "Hopr launches in Orlando as successor to Juice Bike Share". Orlando Business Journal. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
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