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Shared due east - iceboat startup Beam Mobility has placed century of superfluous “ phantom ” scooters on city streets in Australia and New Zealand to avoid ante up vehicle enrolment fee to local authorities , according to a two - part account fromThe Australian .
Cities place caps on the number of vehicle operators can deploy to head off saturating street and sidewalk with scooters that could peril pedestrians .
The Australian ’s scoop include leak Slack messages and other papers detailing how Beam provided sour data point to independent monitoring app Ride Report to understate the number of scooters in cities such as Brisbane , Canberra , Adelaide , Auckland and Wellington .
One text file , which includes Beam co - founder Deb Gangopadhyay ’s name , report Beam ’s plan to deploy an additional 1,000 ice yacht into the “ good surface area ” of those cities , with the end of father an additional $ 150,000 profit .
Beam last raised$135 millionfrom eminent - profile investors , include Affirma Capital and Peak XV Partners ( formerly Sequoia India and SEA ) .
