Startups coming out of the micromobility scene in the European first step phase

Micromobility at an early stage has moved in recent years. The cowboy buffoonery of online scooter companies causing chaos as part of a ladder offer have disappeared with large venture capital checks which are now taking place towards AI startups.

Stricter capital combined with an existential need to create sustainable commercial models has produced a new generation of micromobility startups.

This week, I attended European micromobility in BrusselsWhere I visited the so-called “start-up arena” of the conference to get an idea of ​​what the micromobility ecosystem at the start of Europe brought to the table. Many companies I have spoken try to fill the gaps in this industry – whether through fleet, parking or load management software. Some, however, only build the vehicles they wanted to drive.

All represent the next phase of the constantly evolving micromobility industry.

Convoy

E-Cargo bikes are often marketed as facilitating the life of parents, but most are heavy, bulky and expensive. In the United Kingdom ConvoyWho was founded in 2023, try to overcome these obstacles with a clip -for -clip -for -car conversion kit for bikes and electric bikes that can transport up to two small children.

The team behind Convoy has a diversified experience that goes from Femtech and E-Bikes to the former CEO of Dyson.

“We are working together for 10 years to build the first portable hands-free puller,” Tatiana Escobar-Peake, in chief of Convoy, told Techcrunch. “For the past decade, we have been obsessed with the reasons why life for new parents must be so miserable?”

Convoy’s attachment easily attaches to the rear wheel of an existing bicycle, easily stores and weighs only 26 pounds. It offers a 250 watt engine which transforms pedal bikes into electric bikes, as well as the rear steering preserves the bicycle balance circle.

Convoy launches pre-orders for the trailer of € 2,200 ($ 2,500) next week. The startup collected modest funding and obtained sufficient request from European distributors this year to start developing in Japan and the United States next year.

Aza’s rage

Founded one and a half years ago by brother and sister Duo Caroline and Johannes Goeckel, Germany, based in Germany Aza’s rage Building load and solar energy parking stations for electric bikes. Azora Load does not try to meet the needs of shared micromobility operators directly as well as serving ordinary people who have an electric bicycle which can be loaded and parked safely in public.

“There are no solutions like this,” Caroline Goeckel told Techcrunch. “In London, for example, I can’t park my bicycle somewhere and know that it will just make me fly.”

The flagship product of Azora, Azora Arc, is a covered charging station which can adapt to a single car park. It offers five integrated solar panels, four charging stations that can accommodate up to eight bikes and can be adapted to advertising. It is designed to be a plug-and-play solution, suitable for various places such as parking garages and city streets.

Azora wants to sell these stations at a retail price of € 28,000 ($ 32,000) – or € 15,999 ($ ​​18,400) for the Azora flow which has no coverage – in cities, apartment complexes, shopping centers and other companies. They hope to collect € 250,000 through venture capital or friends and family, highlighting the need for expertise in the B2B distribution. A pilot program should start in Heidelberg, Germany, to test the viability of the first prototype.

Fleet

Fleet is a European -based micromobility market that buys, sells and renovates electric bikes and shared scooters. The company, founded at the end of 2024, is aimed at new and established operators, offering aid to the supply chain, software management and batteries.

Fleeter’s customers include sellers who seek to unload equipment and new operators looking for a profitable entry on the market.

“We are the cheap to help someone who wants to start, or even a large operator who wants to develop affordable,” Alexei Stefan, director of Fleeter, in Techcrunch, told Techcrunch.

The company operates remotely with warehouses in Romania and the Netherlands. It sold 6,000 bikes this year and evolves organically thanks to market demand and word of mouth. Fleeter also offers logistics support for moving and delivery of bikes, and was seen discuss with the founders of Bloom based in Detroit – Who wants to face all the difficult and backstage work for electric startups – during the event.

To change

Italian startup To change Bring AI and simulation to fleet planning and fleet management for shared cities and mobility operators – including a lime pilot. The startup offers two main products: URBIVERSE generates synthetic data and simulations for logistics and mobility, while Urban Copilot offers a forecasting of demand in real time, a rebalancing of the fleet and an optimization of operations.

Then there is the AI ​​agent who “is able to access all the tools of the stakeholders”, from the SLACK applications to the CRM, so that users can ask “transversal questions”.

“Thus, you can ask him a bit like, please send a notification on Slack each time the average level of the fleet of the fleet exceeds 40% in this district, you can wonder a report on the status of my fleet in comparison with the disturbance of public transport,” said Alessandro Ciociola, the IA officer of Switch, at Techcrunch.

Founded in 2020, the company has raised nearly a million dollarsincluding the European Institute of Technology.

Zapp

ZappA great application of Bosnia and Herzegovina, offers food delivery, shared micromobility, package delivery, rental of a car and taxi services. ZAPP was launched in 2020 and extended to 10 cities in Bosnia – where Uber still does not have a great presence – and plans to enter Croatia this year.

What is different about ZAPP is that it uses a franchise model, an idea from the CEO Martin Mikolic, the former CEO of Friendly Fire Friendly Friend.

“In the Balkans, there is not much competition (players established like Uber), and the objective of our franchise is smaller cities below a million people because the concept is to empower local populations, because local populations know better what the customer needs in this city,” said Mikolic.

J2r

Jean Madaule was a commercial analyst for the video game industry who wanted to buy an electric motorcycle, but found nothing on the market that met his traceability, reparability and cool design needs.

Self -taught engineer, he began to build motorcycles in his garage until he finds what is now J2r flagship model. J2R, which was founded in 2022, appointed its first Smol electric motorcycle – in the blink of an eye to its small size. Smol has a clear radical design that has a futuristic bike style with a minimalist attraction, which is improved by features such as the exposed suspension.

“It’s a toy, but for the city,” said Madaule. “Basically, for people who are really urban and in street culture. I suppose that is why rarity marketing works for them. They have the impression that it is a drop of something super exclusive.”

The team launched a presale campaign in September with a price of € 9,450 ($ 10,800). They plan to deliver 15 units numbered by the end of the year and 100 units in January 2026. Smol is assembled in France with parts mainly from the EU.

Mobility trace

As a former founder of the German bike sharing operation Velocity Mobility, Tobias Meurer includes the pain points of the shared micromobility activity. In April 2023, he returned with a new startup, Mobility tracewhich provides business intelligence services for bicycle and self -sharing operators.

Trace Mobility offers a software service based on a subscription which follows key measurements such as user records, reservations, use of vehicles and income. It also incorporates data accessible to the public and offers an AI agent for personalized information and operational suggestions.

The target customer of the company is smaller operators who do not have their own booking platforms but rather rely on white labels solutions, from which Traces draws data to offer their own ideas for customers.

“Profitability is a big problem for everyone in the company and to improve profitability, or to first reach profitability, it is important to know the mechanisms of your cost and income structure and how these are connected,” said mere.