An Uber for bicycles? The grand ambitions of Danish startup AirDonkey
by Peter Walker from on (#M3N0)
It aims to bring a network of instantly-available bicycles to cities around the world - if enough people want to rent out their spare bikes for cash.
When you're launching a new business, having big aspirations is usually the done thing. For the distinctively-named AirDonkey the ambitions are bigger than most: to be something of a combination of Uber and Airbnb, but for bicycles.
If that wasn't enough, the Copenhagen-based startup, which is soon to launch a Kickstarter appeal for about a100,000 of funds, hopes to be as much of what co-founder Erdem Ovacik calls "a movement" for more liveable, bike-filled cities as a commercial company.
