Bird gobbles up another rival scooter startup, this time in Europe
January 27, 2020, 8:00 pm
it’s the latest sign of consolidation among e-scooter companies Circ isn’t Bird’s first acquisition. The Santa Monica-based company bought West Coast rival Scoot for a reported $25 million in early 2019. The acquisition allowed Bird to get back into the lucrative San Francisco market, after initially getting shut out of the city in 2018.
