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Wikimove
Techstars '22Mulfingen, DE · Founded 2022 · 3 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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wikimove provides a platform for urban mobility management that enables cities to coordinate and optimize multiple transportation options. The solution serves municipalities and city planners seeking affordable, interoperable mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) infrastructure built on open standards.
Also known as wikimove · Wikimove
Founders & leadership
Wikimove was founded in 2022 by Daniel Wolpert.
Investors · 1
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026wikimove is a German smart-mobility company that offers a Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform for cities and transportation associations. Its stated positioning is an open ecosystem of data-driven tools for orchestrating new and existing mobility services, improving public transportation and supporting street design, presented as an integrated system through which travellers can plan, book and pay for multiple transport modes in a single digital platform.
The company frames its offering around an ESG framework embedded in the MaaS product, which it says allows cities to define locally adapted policies and assess the outcomes of actions taken. The product is organised into three areas: environmental (analysis of CO2 emissions and mobility patterns, traffic-flow optimisation, lifecycle assessment of vehicles and energy types, smart routing and behaviour incentives); social (connectivity in remote areas, vehicle and infrastructure safety, reduced waiting and commuting times, and access for underserved and limited-mobility groups); and governance (compatibility with existing mobility apps, use of open-source and open-data principles, data anonymisation and cross-border interoperability). Each area is accompanied by candidate KPIs such as CO2 saved, modal shift from private cars to shared and public mobility, incident-rate reduction and integration of features into external platforms.
On a Techstars company listing the business is described as developing a digital tool that provides a visual reference of mobility status and transportation services, with a stated aim of fostering collaboration, communication and coordination between stakeholders and users of MaaS.
Founding story
Co-founder Daniel Wolpert trained as an electronics technician, studied architecture and urban planning alongside renewable energy engineering, worked as a consultant, and then joined Mercedes-Benz in the strategy department for alternative drives while completing a master's degree in technology management. He became part of the founding team of Mercedes-Benz Energy and moved to Silicon Valley to help start Mercedes-Benz Energy USA. Observing how Los Angeles and San Francisco were handling new mobility led him to the idea of organising MaaS to increase its adoption, which became Wikimove. He recruited co-founder Michael, a former colleague and roommate in Silicon Valley who was finishing a master's degree in software engineering in Germany.
Business model
wikimove sells a MaaS platform to cities, municipalities and transportation associations, with the website inviting prospective customers to book a product demonstration. The company's co-founder has described city municipalities as the startup's first customer segment, and states the company secured a customer before having a product.
Traction
The co-founder states the company found a customer at the outset, before having a product. The Techstars listing records a headcount of 1-10 employees and pre-seed stage.
Latest developments
The company completed the Techstars Paris accelerator program, described in an August 2022 Techstars interview with co-founder Daniel Wolpert.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
An early-stage entrant in the European MaaS market, categorised by Techstars under ground passenger transportation, information technology, logistics, software and transportation, at pre-seed stage with fewer than ten employees.
The company positions itself as the first to combine ESG criteria with Mobility as a Service, embedding an ESG framework with measurable KPIs into its platform and emphasising open-source, open-data and compatibility with existing mobility applications.
Technology
A data-driven MaaS platform combining trip planning, booking and payment across transport modes with analytics on CO2 emissions and mobility patterns, lifecycle assessment of vehicles and energy types, and smart routing. The company states it applies open-source and open-data principles for interoperability with existing mobility apps and cross-border data sharing, and uses data anonymisation techniques for user data.
Go-to-market
Direct sales to public-sector customers, with demo requests via the company website; participation in the Techstars Paris accelerator provided mentoring and network access.
Cities, municipalities, city planners and transportation associations; end users are travellers using public, shared and private transport modes, including residents of remote areas and people with limited mobility.
Geography
Germany; the Techstars listing gives Bamberg, Bavaria as the company's location, and the company participated in the Techstars accelerator in Paris.
History
The company was founded in 2022 and took part in the Techstars Paris accelerator, a three-month program during which it went through an additional customer-discovery phase after re-examining its focus on city municipalities as first customers. As of the Techstars company listing it was classified at pre-seed stage with 1-10 employees.
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
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Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsTechstars published an interview with co-founder Daniel Wolpert following Wikimove's participation in the three-month Techstars Paris Accelerator.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 5
primary sources listed
- Wikimovewikimove.me · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Wikimove do?
- German startup building an ESG-oriented Mobility-as-a-Service platform for cities and transport associations.
- Who founded Wikimove?
- Wikimove was founded by Daniel Wolpert in 2022.
- Who are Wikimove's investors?
- Wikimove's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Wikimove headquartered?
- Wikimove is headquartered in Mulfingen, DE.