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Frans Biegstraaten is a senior executive and experienced start-up and scale-up entrepreneur with exposure across multiple industries, both in software and hardware. He has extensive experience in building and managing (multi-country) commercial teams.

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Enjoy my interview with Axel Dekker from Packaly (www.packaly.com). We discussed sustainability in the last mile, innovation in city distribution, Packaly's recent funding and Axel's personal lifestyle.

Packaly is the fastest last mile delivery platform that combines businesses and their customers with a on-demand delivery service. They create the opportunity for every single company in our cities of operations to deliver a package in 60 minutes or the same evening. Packaly works together with supermarkets, book stores, sports retailers, local fashion outlets and much more to enable them to ship as an innovative transportation player.

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Karthik Mahadevan was born in India and he is passionate about designing tools that empower people. Currently building Envision, a tool for the visually impaired to live more independently.

Envision uses artificial intelligence to read all kinds of text from any surface, recognise faces, describe scenes, find objects, scan barcodes, detect colours and so much more. It is the best all-in-one tool in the pocket of a blind or low vision user for all of their visual recognition tasks. 

🌍Over the past year, Envision has organically grown to thousands of paying subscribers around the world. 

🏆Envision is also the winner of Google Play Award 2019 and was nominated for AppleVis Hall of Fame 2019. 

🕶 Envision is now bringing its software to smartglasses. This provides visually impaired users with an even more unobtrusive and hands-free way to get things done.

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Interview with Reinder Lubbers about his life. He is a former Olympic rower, investment banker, venture capitalist and entrepreneur, now having started his own new-style venture capital firm "No Such Ventures", DIFFERENTIATING itself from most other investors.

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Joe Lewin, Founder & CEO at Zwings (www.zwings.co.uk), has proved that passion, persistence and determination is all that's needed to forge a way in an up and coming industry - mobility!

Since founding ZWINGS in 2019, Joe found himself spending all of his personal savings on making his dream come true and building one of the most successfull shared mobility companies in the United Kingdom.

In this episode of TNRI, Joe shares his story, passion, advice, and list of his favourite books.

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BAQME (www.baqme.nl) is an electric box bike sharing technology platform offering a sustainable urban mobility alternative for short distance car rides in the Netherlands.

After working for years in the investment banking (big names), and having a child, he decided to create a startup together with his childhood friend - Sven Velthuis. With the support of Berenice van Gessel, they were able to bring their shared service to the market in an amazingly short period of time.

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Ten years ago, the three-wheeler Carver One was a hit. To be able to hang safely in the bend, it had an innovative tilting mechanism, designed by inventors Chris van den Brink and Harry Kroonen. The TV show Top Gear was very enthusiastic and orders were in the thousands. Until Toyota took over engine supplier Daihatsu and temporarily stopped the supply of engines to third parties. The company went bankrupt and Anton Rosier, the current CEO, stepped in for a restart.

The new Carver had to be designed completely electrically, as a luxury scooter for inner-city use with a range of 80-100 km and a maximum of 45 km / h. And the closed body should provide comfort and social and road safety.

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If you spend your entire life contributing to the empires of other people, can you truly be called an entrepreneur? 

Knowing the answer to this, and drawn to solve a problem that Mehedi had detected in his local Bangladesh communities, he left Alibaba in 2018 started his own start-up, known as ‘Jobike’. Jobike seeks to solve the challenge of short-distance transportation in Bangladesh. The country is plagued with high levels of carbon emissions that have everyone concerned, but no one seem to be sure how to do reduce vehicles on the roads. Rather than think of how to reduce cars on the road, at Jobike, they’re providing an alternative means of transportation that is eco-friendly, cheap, accessible to all, and a healthy option.

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Damian Young could be about to change the world. His start-up firm ZEUS Scooters enables consumers to use an app to hire an electric scooter for travelling around town. The former SME banking adviser’s innovative three-wheel design, swappable batteries and a host of other innovations have already got to operate in dozens of European cities. And with the world needing to settle to a post-coronavirus new normal, ZEUS could be in just the right place at just the right time. So, if you want a safe, comfortable, individual, environmentally-friendly journey, hop on.

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Jaideep Dhanoa is an experienced tech operator, having contributed to multiple innovative businesses across a range of emerging and developed markets in the US, Asia and the Middle East. 

Currently, Jaideep is the Co-founder and CEO of the FENIX, the leading micromobility operator in the Middle East region. Before FENIX, Jaideep was the Co-Founder and CEO, MENAT of Circ, the first licensed micromobility operator in the Middle East, a market he led through the company’s exit via acquisition in January of 2020. With Circ, Jaideep created the micromobility category in the Middle East as the first to market in 5 GCC cities and 3 countries, completing over half a million rides and becoming the #1 travel app in UAE, Bahrain and Qatar.

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Today's guest is Philip Ellis. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Beryl (www.beryl.cc). Beryl is a shared mobility service, from UK, that combines bikes, e-bikes, e-scooters in one app.   

Philip started at Beryl as the COO together with Emily Brooke. Back in the day, they innovated the bike lightning technology which saved thousands of lives. For the viewers from UK, next time you ride Boris bikes, there is a piece of Beryl there as well.

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Today's guest is Sean Flood. He was the Founder and CEO of Gotcha (www.ridegotcha.com).  Gotcha is a Shared mobility service that combines electric bikes, scooters, trikes and ride share in one app. They are located in the United States over 45 locations.  

Sean started Gotcha when he was at the rock bottom when the real estate market collapsed in 2009, but then he found his wife after couple of days since he started Gotcha and after another two days they moved in, and started this “family” business offering the service to the unis, which then grew into this big player in the shared mobilty industry.

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Yoann Loetscher is a managing partner at Enuu (www.enuu.ch), a mobility service based on shared light electric vehicles. He talks about the early days of the company, as well as the journey he had to make to get where he is now. 

He co-founded Enuu with his old friend - Luca Placi, with whom he also managed the Bern Formula Student. In this organisation they developed and built three electric racecars and raised almost 800k USD in sponsoring.

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Guest of this episode is the Co-Founder of Dott - one of the leaders in e-scooter mobility in the world. Maxim Romain shares his story, motivation, and list of the favourite books.

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Tony is a serial entrepreneur with brands like GuraRide, SafiRide, SafiRun, and SUL founded by him. He is extremely committed to the sustainability of e-mobility in Africa. He also promotes great values in everything he does!

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As founder and CEO of Robert Bosch Mobility Services and Coup Mobility Services, Mat was responsible for providing the visionary leadership for a technology company offering multiple Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) offerings like eScooter sharing, ridesharing, autonomous mobility, and intermodal mobility - as a tech-evangelist, Mat would love to bring autonomous air taxi asap to the mobility world.  

He has a track record of identifying growth opportunities in the mobility industry over the past 16 years. Mat achieved proven results in AI, digitalization, corporate venture building and he has a deep understanding of end-user demand, ambidextrous strategies and being an intra- and entrepreneur.

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Lawrence Leuschner, CEO of TIER Mobility, shares his view on life, hobbies and advises. Starting entrepreneurship at the age of 9, he always thought of reducing waste and make the planet a better place. Before founding TIER Mobility, Lawrence traveled 40,000 km in a van around the world, and realized that he has a big mission in this world. 

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Today's guest is Amy van Son - an extremely energetic entrepreneur, networker, and adviser. She is also the organizer of such projects as TEDxArnhem and Helmen Vol Verhalen. Name of her advisory company - Seneca Advies - represents her Stoic view on life.

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Mohammad Hadi, the co-founder and CEO of Roamer, the startup behind EzBike, said that rolling out electric bikes using a shared economy model is one of the best ways you can promote electric vehicles in Pakistan. “What we are doing is trying to introduce an environment-friendly mode of transportation at scale,” he said.  

Hadi has extensive experience in banking industry all over the world, but he decided to return to his home country - Pakistan, and work on a startup with his childhood friend - Ali Moeen Malik.

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Martijn Obers created Swapfiets - bikes for subscription (www.swapfiets.nl), during his study at TU Delft. Together with his boyz (Richard Burger and Dirk de Bruijn) they grinded day-n-night with lots of coffee to reach their dream. 

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Fredrik Hjelm co-founded Voi Technology in 2018 with a vision of improving the way people move around congested urban centers by offering fleets of electric scooters as a cleaner, affordable and exhilarating alternative to cars.

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