Shuddle shutting down, The boxy fundraising ambiance has claimed addition victim -- Shuddle, the Bay Area auto account for kids, which appear that it will shut down Friday.
"As we all accept apparent in today’s headlines, it is an acutely arduous ambiance for adopting new capital,” Doug Aley, Shuddle’s arch executive, said Thursday. "We formed harder with our absolute investors to acquisition new banking assets that would advice us abide to grow. But we could not accession the allotment appropriate to abide operations."
Shuddle was one of several California companies that apprenticed with vetted caregivers to carriage amateur -- a affectionate of Uber for kids. Parents could book and pay for rides advanced of time.
The company, which launched in abatement 2014, operated alone in the Bay Area and had 32 employees. Its endure allotment annular was $9.6 million, aloft in May 2014.
A backer for the aggregation beneath to say how abounding drivers formed for Shuddle, but said it had provided some 65,000 rides beyond the Bay Area. Like Uber, Lyft and Shuddle’s Los Angeles analogue HopSkipDrive, drivers for the account were absolute contractors.
The shuttering of Shuddle follows the cease of SpoonRocket, an on-demand meal supply aggregation that went apprehension in March, citation acute antagonism and an “ever abbreviating allotment environment.”
On-demand busline account Sidecar aswell accomplished operations in December, affairs its assets to Accepted Motors. Its arch executive, Sunil Paul, said at the time that the aggregation was clumsy to attempt with Uber, which had aloft decidedly added capital.
Meanwhile, HopSkipDrive aloft $10.2 actor in January and assassin the above accepted administrator of Uber L.A., Eyal Gutentag, to be its operations chief.
"As we all accept apparent in today’s headlines, it is an acutely arduous ambiance for adopting new capital,” Doug Aley, Shuddle’s arch executive, said Thursday. "We formed harder with our absolute investors to acquisition new banking assets that would advice us abide to grow. But we could not accession the allotment appropriate to abide operations."
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Shuddle was one of several California companies that apprenticed with vetted caregivers to carriage amateur -- a affectionate of Uber for kids. Parents could book and pay for rides advanced of time.
The company, which launched in abatement 2014, operated alone in the Bay Area and had 32 employees. Its endure allotment annular was $9.6 million, aloft in May 2014.
A backer for the aggregation beneath to say how abounding drivers formed for Shuddle, but said it had provided some 65,000 rides beyond the Bay Area. Like Uber, Lyft and Shuddle’s Los Angeles analogue HopSkipDrive, drivers for the account were absolute contractors.
The shuttering of Shuddle follows the cease of SpoonRocket, an on-demand meal supply aggregation that went apprehension in March, citation acute antagonism and an “ever abbreviating allotment environment.”
On-demand busline account Sidecar aswell accomplished operations in December, affairs its assets to Accepted Motors. Its arch executive, Sunil Paul, said at the time that the aggregation was clumsy to attempt with Uber, which had aloft decidedly added capital.
Meanwhile, HopSkipDrive aloft $10.2 actor in January and assassin the above accepted administrator of Uber L.A., Eyal Gutentag, to be its operations chief.
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