{"id":2883,"date":"2023-02-07T10:13:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1250940-4486196.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2023-03-14T10:17:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T14:17:42","slug":"cdvca-is-pleased-to-announce-our-investment-in-skootel-a-puerto-rico-based-start-up-micromobility-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/cdvca-is-pleased-to-announce-our-investment-in-skootel-a-puerto-rico-based-start-up-micromobility-company\/","title":{"rendered":"CDVCA is pleased to announce our investment in Skootel, a Puerto Rico-based start-up micromobility company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CDVCA is pleased to announce our investment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skootel.com\/\">Skootel<\/a> went <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20230207005092\/en\/The-Community-Development-Venture-Capital-Alliance-Invests-in-Skootel-Driving-Micromobility-with-Cutting-Edge-Data-Analytics-in-Puerto-Rico\">live on Business Wire<\/a> today. Skootel is a Puerto Rico-based start-up company that enables users to rent scooters and bikes by the minute through an app.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This CDVCA investment will help Skootel&nbsp;expand its operations to 10 new markets and further develop&nbsp;its innovative logistics and data software.&nbsp;Skootel\u2019s&nbsp;founders, Juan Carlos Parra and Aldo Briano&nbsp;returned&nbsp;to Puerto Rico from a decade&nbsp;in the Silicon Valley and launched Skootel&nbsp;in 2019. The company has&nbsp;grown to&nbsp;2,600 scooters, 120 bikes, 5 markets, 1.5M+ rides, more than 200K users and&nbsp;more than 50 employees. Users have clocked more than 1.6M miles, saving 500+ tons of CO2 emissions and reducing the environmental footprint.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CDVCA is proud to&nbsp;embark on this journey&nbsp;with Skootel&nbsp;and share the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20230207005092\/en\/The-Community-Development-Venture-Capital-Alliance-Invests-in-Skootel-Driving-Micromobility-with-Cutting-Edge-Data-Analytics-in-Puerto-Rico\">CDVCA investment press release<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDVCA is pleased to announce our investment in Skootel went live on Business Wire today. Skootel is a Puerto Rico-based start-up company that enables users to rent scooters and bikes by the minute through an app.&nbsp; This CDVCA investment will help Skootel&nbsp;expand its operations to 10 new markets and further develop&nbsp;its innovative logistics and data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[96,4,97],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2916,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}