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More than 20,000 electric scooters belong to Superpedestrian will be auctioned off later this calendar month , along with other equipment from the startup ’s U.S. surgical process , after closing its doors December 31 .
Two “ global online auction”listingshaveappearedon the site of Silicon Valley Disposition , an on-line grocery store for “ surplus asset , ” which will boast scooters and other paraphernalia from cities Superpedestrian operated in , like Seattle , Los Angeles and New York City . The first auction open January 23 , and will run for three days . A sequential auction is fix to melt from January 29 - January 31 .
Superpedestrian initially got into the shared motor scooter commercial enterprise — which it called Link — in 2020 when it acquired “ well all ” of the assets of Boston - ground Zagster , part of awave of consolidation during the COVID-19 pandemic . Though it raise $ 125 million less than two years ago , the party struggled financially in 2023 as it operate its shared scooter fleet in loads of cities around the Earth . invigorated financial support and a potential fusion were on the horizon as recently as November , TechCrunch reported last month ; whatever talk had materialized fall apart . Its death came just sidereal day before Bird , a former loss leader in the space , filed forChapter 11 bankruptcy .
The inauguration ’s leadership subsequently told employee December 15 that itwas shutting down U.S. operationsat the end of the year and explore a sales event of its European asset . ( The status of the European line remains unreadable . Superpedestrian ’s CEO Assaf Biderman did not reply to a request for scuttlebutt . ) The workers who stuck it out during those final two weeks were tasked , in part , with recover the ship’s company ’s many scooters from city around the country before locking the facilities for the last clock time on December 31 , fit in to one former employee .
