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ZenRide
Zenride is a long-term bike rental and fleet management service for companies.
The Zenride service allows each employee to go to a store or an e-commerce website, choose the bike of his choice and have it rented by his company. Employees also benefit from an anti-theft device, a helmet and additional services such as theft and breakage insurance, annual maintenance, towing assistance and e-learning training.
Useful links:
- Who to contact: Antoine Repussard, CEO, ar@zenride.co
- Discover the for your company: website
A few key figures
A word
from the founders
The Paris Dauphine Incubator enabled us to move from the idea to the product.
The structure opened the doors to an active and willing network of former graduates ready to help start-ups with a Dauphine DNA.
Finally, the incubator played a major role in bringing us our first investor and others who followed. The team around Eric Kalfon and Cécile Bulle is top notch and allows entrepreneurs to have access to the necessary resources for the complicated task of launching.
Antoine & Thomas, Co-founders of Zenride
A little bit
of history
The two founders of Zenride met in 2012 during an academic exchange in Rio de Janeiro as part of their studies in Finance at the University of Paris-Dauphine.
The congestion, pollution and noise generated by Rio’s road traffic often affected the two snow sports enthusiasts when they went to the city’s beaches.The same question often came up in their discussions: how to get around more efficiently in increasingly congested cities?
The solution should be simple, fun and inexpensive for the user. At the time, nothing seemed to meet the criteria of the two budding entrepreneurs… The desire to work together on mobility remained unfulfilled until the autumn of 2017 and the emergence of the electric bicycle market.
The two founders then set themselves the mission of transforming commuting, perceived as a constraint by employees, into a moment of pleasure with the electric bike: Zenride was born.
Indeed, 75% of home-to-work journeys are less than 5km long.
Although the electric bike is booming, it is still the fastest means of transport in the city, but it is not used enough in our journeys (1%). The main reason for this is the high purchase price.
Zenride gives all employees, regardless of their income, the opportunity to enjoy this means of transport and all its advantages. Indeed, we have chosen the B2B channel to allow the employer and the employee to share the rent and thus be competitive with the costs of public transport.
So, you can ask yourself questions about your future mobility!
Would you like to benefit from our service within your company? Then contact us, we will be delighted to work with you and get as many people as possible on bikes!