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Small Dutch Start-Up that Bought MaaS Global Assets Says It Can Avoid ‘Pitfalls’ That Defeated Whim App

by Dan BalabanPosted on April 24, 2024 (April 25, 2024)Posted in MaaSTagged MaaS Global
umob app
The small Dutch start-up that bought pioneering mobility-as-a-service start-up MaaS Global from a bankruptcy administrator told Mobility Payments it has learned from the “pitfalls encountered” by the Whim app provider.…
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MaaS Global Discloses Licensing Deal for Its Technology; Will It be Enough to Save Company?

by Dan BalabanPosted on November 4, 2022 (March 16, 2024)Posted in MaaSTagged MaaS Global
MaaS Global founder and CEO Sampo Hietanen disclosed this week that the mobility-as-a-service start-up has a licensing deal with major Italian insurance company Unipol to introduce MaaS, though could offer…
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Market Opportunity or Last Gasp? Pioneering MaaS Start-Up ‘Pivots’ to Stay in Business

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 13, 2022 (November 4, 2022)Posted in MaaSTagged MaaS Global
Taxi-MaaS Global
Pioneering mobility-as-a-service start-up MaaS Global plans to drop its B2C business model and will instead try to license its Whim platform and expertise to non-transport companies that want to launch…
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MaaS Global Lays Off More Employees; Faces Uncertain Future

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 7, 2022 (October 14, 2022)Posted in MaaSTagged MaaS Global
The CEO and founder of financially strapped Finnish start-up MaaS Global, creator of the pioneering mobility-as-a-service app Whim, said the company is “reorganizing. That includes laying off more employees, after…
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Pioneering MaaS Start-Up Seeks Buyer, New Investors as Cash Crunch Worsens

by Dan BalabanPosted on September 2, 2022 (September 5, 2022)Posted in MaaSTagged MaaS Global
Whim app in Austria
MaaS Global, a pioneering mobility-as-a-service platform provider, is looking for a buyer, as it faces the prospect of running out of cash, Mobility Payments has learned. [...]Read More
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Insight: Whim Chief Seeks Scale with Acquisition; Says It’s Too Soon to Cast Doubt on MaaS

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 28, 2022 (April 24, 2024)Posted in MaaSTagged MaaS Global
Salvador Metro-Brazil
Sampo Hietanen, CEO of Finland-based MaaS Global, said his company’s acquisition of the Brazilian trip-planning and tracking app Quicko would help turn the app into a full-fledged mobility-as-a-service platform, while…
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MaaS Global Gets Much-Needed Funding, as It Continues to Navigate Difficult Mobility-as-a-Service Market

by Dan BalabanPosted on August 26, 2021 (September 2, 2021)Posted in MaaSTagged MaaS Global, Whim
The CEO of MaaS Global, developer of the pioneering mobility-as-a-service app Whim, said the company’s latest capital infusion of €11 million (US$12.9 million), will help the start-up expand into a…
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Cubic’s MaaS Point Man: Control of MaaS Apps by VC-Funded Start-Ups Coming to an End; Whim App Chief: Not So Fast

by Dan BalabanPosted on August 4, 2021 (May 14, 2025)Posted in MaaSTagged Cubic, Editor's Choice, MaaS Global
Andy Taylor, senior director, global strategy for Cubic Transportation Systems contended that the MaaS market is at a crossroads and could fail if it doesn’t change course, including putting cities…
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MaaS Global CEO: Transit Agencies Should Not Control MaaS Platforms

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 26, 2021 (October 25, 2024)Posted in MaaSTagged Cubic, MaaS Global, Sampo Hietanen
MaaS Global
Sampo Hietanen, founder and CEO of Finland-based MaaS Global agrees with most other industry experts that public transit should form the “core” of the mobility services on offer in any…
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Cubic: Recent MaaS Company Failures among Signs Pointing to Need for ‘MaaS 2.0’

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 12, 2021 (July 26, 2021)Posted in MaaSTagged Cubic, Kyyti, MaaS Global
There is little disputing the fact that mobility as a service has not yet lived up to its hype. And the industry’s largest automated fare collection system provider, Cubic Transportation…
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  • Tip Sheet: Could Cubic Lose Another Big Contract in Vancouver?
  • Cubic Corp. Hires Transportation Industry Veteran to Turn Around Its Troubled Fare-System Vendor
  • Updated: Modaxo Completes Acquisition of Conduent Transit Unit; Renames Fare Business ‘Novvan’
  • Cubic and Moovel Intend to Protest Recommendation in Miami for $42 Million Contract Award to Masabi
  • U.S. Federal Rules Surface Again as Issue for Transit Agencies Outside California Buying Open-Loop Technology through Cal-ITP

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