Remote Repositioning for Light Electric Vehicles & Robots
Location: United States, California, Mountain View
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2019
Investors 5
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Mentions in press and media 8
| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.10.2021 | Tortoise expands robotic delivery to convenience stores across the US | Our portfolio company Tortoise is expanding its remote-controlled delivery robots to convenience store chains across the US through a new two-year strategic partnership with King Retail Solutions (KRS), an Idaho-based retail brand strategy ... |
| 03.02.2021 | Ecommerce Platform BloomNation Helped Small Florists Grow. Now It's Going After Liquor Stores and Pizzerias | BloomNation wants to do for liquor stores what it did for flower delivery, but with robots. A platform for local florists to sell arrangements to customers, BloomNation has been booming during the pandemic as video weddings and at-home birt... |
| 17.08.2020 | Smooth teleoperator: The rise of the remote controller | This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series: Automation and jobs in the new normal. When an interviewer pressed Postmates VP Ali Kashani last year on whether the company’s use of teleoperation technology was an “admissi... |
| 07.07.2020 | Teleoperated scooters: Go X and Tortoise test micromobility’s future in Georgia pilot | Micromobility is evolving in a northern suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, where the sight of an electric scooter rolling down the street without a rider is likely causing more than a few double takes. The City of Peachtree Corners has launched an... |
| 07.07.2020 | Teleoperated scooters: Go X and Tortoise test micromobility’s future in Georgia pilot | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Micromobility is evolving in a northern suburb of... |
| 19.02.2020 | Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko is bringing autonomous scooters to TC Sessions: Mobility | TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 is gearing up to be a lit event. The one-day event, taking place May 14 in San Jose, has just added Dmitry Shevelenko, co-founder and president of an automatic repositioning startup for micromobility vehicles. Yes... |
| 13.11.2019 | Micromobility’s next big opportunities | Launching and operating shared bikes and scooters has lost its novelty. Worldwide, numerous companies are operating shared micromobility services — so many that the industry is well into a consolidation phase. In Latin America, Grow Mobilit... |
| 15.10.2019 | Ex-Uber exec launches startup to autonomously reposition electric scooters and bikes | Just how Android is the operating system for a number of mobile phones, Tortoise wants to be the operating system for micromobility vehicles, its co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko, who previously served as Uber’s director of business development... |