He Built The Largest Micromobility Company In South America With Over 2 Million Rides Per Month
Tomás Martins is on a mission to change how we get around our cities. His startup has already raised tens of millions of dollars and has acquired companies larger than itself as it expands to modernize micro-mobility in new major cities. During our session on the Dealmakers Podcast Tomás Martins shared his journey through launching and scaling a startup. He talked about the truth about building a company, surviving and believing through the tough moments, the future and challenges of micro-mobility, and Brazil’s growing startup ecosystem.
Tomás Martins is on a mission to change how we get around our cities. His startup has already raised tens of millions of dollars and has acquired companies larger than itself as it expands to modernize micromobility in new major cities.
During our session on the DealMakers Podcast, Tomás Martins shared his journey through launching and scaling a startup. He talked about the truth about building a company, surviving and believing through the tough moments, the future and challenges of micromobility, and Brazil’s growing startup ecosystem.
Listen to the full podcast episode and review the transcript here.
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- 1. Travel & Entrepreneurship
- 2. Bike Sharing
- 3. The Truth About Entrepreneurship
Travel & Entrepreneurship
Tomas was born in the buzzing metropolis of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His mother was a biologist. His father is a doctor, and grandfather an entrepreneur.
Then at 16 years old, he had the chance to travel, and as with many hyper-successful entrepreneurs it planted the seeds of what would become a great business, tembici.
Staying in Holland as an exchange student he used a bicycle to get around every day. He was blown away by being able to use a bike to get back and forth to school, or even hop on the metro and go explore another city.
On returning to Brazil, he wondered why they weren’t using bikes there.
Continuing to nurture his love of travel and learnings from his time in Holland, Martins decided to go on to study International Relations.
On graduating he began to work on projects around sustainability, and how best practices from around the world could be brought to South America.
Bike Sharing
Tomas continued to question the status quo. Like, why is it necessary to take two different trains just to travel five miles? Why do we have to haul around several tons of metal to commute? Are cars that necessary or good?
This is when he met his cofounder. Mauricio had been working on a project around bike-sharing in Europe. They teamed up with two others and launched tembici.
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