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Bolt

Building the future of transportation

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1001+ employees
  • Marketplace
  • Transport
  • Mobility
Veerenni, Tallinn, Harju County

Company mission

Bolt believes in a future with less car ownership and flexible urban mobility. By bringing reliable on-demand transport to the masses, they’re helping cities evolve towards decreased traffic congestion and pollution

Top investors

Few candidates hear
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37% female employees

26% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Bolt is another company in the competitive ride-sharing market that's trying to take market share away from Uber in London and Europe more broadly. They operate in 100 cities and have over 25 million customers

Their strategy is to focus on markets where Uber used to have a monopoly and then they come in with a better offering for drivers

Bolt has the ability to grow aggressively for now as they're well financed. They face a similar to challenge to Uber in that no company in this space has established a profitable business model that isn't propped up by investors with deep pockets. Creating a sustainable model that's better for drivers than Uber is the way Bolt can win

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Benefits

  • Work from home opportunities

Company values

  • Fearless - We solve complex challenges on a daily basis. It requires a team of fast-movers to push things forward and get the job done. We value passion over experience, mistakes over not trying
  • Smart - We hire the smartest people - those who know that they don’t know everything. We make data-driven decisions and apply our learnings fast. It's about the impact, not the effort
  • Responsible - With scale comes responsibility. We value the trust given to us by millions of people and do our best to make urban transportation reliable and available for everyone

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Jan 2022

$660m

SERIES F

Aug 2021

$630.6m

LATE VC

Total funding: $1.8bn

This company has top investors

Leadership

Markus left his Computer Science degree to start Bolt (then Taxify) aged 19

People progressing

Joined as a Customer Support Specialist in Estonia. Moved to London after 3 years

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