How it started
History
Superpedestrian's first product, The Copenhagen Wheel, was developed at MIT's Senseable City Lab in 2009 in partnership with the city of Copenhagen, and unveiled at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference. In December 2012, Assaf Biderman, a co-inventor of the Wheel and associate director of the MIT Senseable City Lab, founded Superpedestrian to commercialize the Wheel. After several years of engineering, testing, and validation, the Copenhagen Wheel officially launched in April 2017.
In December 2018, the Boston Business Journal reported the company would shift its focus to start building electric scooters and supplying the scooter sharing fleet operators such as Bird and Lime. In 2020, the company instead began operating shared scooter fleets itself in the US, before expanding to Italy and Spain. In 2021, the company opened sharing services in Austria, Sweden and Portugal.
From Wikipedia’s article on Superpedestrian, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3