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2020-03-03

CityLoop offers car rental companies attractive partnerships

As a travel agency and operator of the ridesharing platform, the business travel startup CityLoop offers affordable seats in luxury saloon cars. CityLoop focuses on medium-haul routes and follows the principle of scheduled transportation services. The circular routes called “Loops” connect hotspots such as airports and large companies and are driven by selected, experienced chauffeur service companies many times a day at fixed times. As part of the scaling of its service, CityLoop is now offering other car rental companies with correspondingly high-quality fleets and well-trained chauffeurs the chance of a qualified partnership.

Jörg Mayer, founder and CEO of CityLoop: "CityLoop relieves the future partners of marketing and sales and provides a state-of-the-art IT platform. Our business model is based on a consistent partnership approach - characterised by fairness and high quality standards. And stands in clear contrast to the aggressive, disruptive business practices of global mobility giants!”

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2020-02-27

CityLoop wins Armin Fendrich as angel investor and advisor

The business travel startup CityLoop was able to gain one of the most experienced new mobility managers as its angel investor and advisor in the scope of its early-stage participation opportunity via convertible bond. Armin Fendrich was most recently European head of Ridecell, a leading global platform for fleet management, car sharing and ridesharing. He brings 15 years of management experience in location-based services, connected cars and new mobility segments with companies such as Nokia, Panasonic and NNG.

"As a frequent business traveller, I was immediately impressed by the CityLoop use case," emphasises the renowned mobility expert. "Bringing my accumulated experience with technology companies from the shared mobility sector into CityLoop is of an additional interest to me", Armin Fendrich comments on his decision to participate in CityLoop as an Angel Investor at an early stage.

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2019-12-17

CityLoop and M-TRIBES form a development partnership

The business-trip start-up CityLoop and the Hamburg-based mobility software specialist M-TRIBES have entered into a development partnership. This paves the way for a customer-friendly design of the ride-sharing provider CityLoop’s booking platform and smartphone apps – with M-TOOLS as an additional key technological component – and will enable further development with exclusive functionalities.

“For companies and their employees on business trips, the focus is on flexibility and reliability during the journey. When you’re looking to establish and rapidly scale up a timetable-based ride-sharing service with a top-end service experience, the technological fleet-management platform and Internet-based booking systems and smartphone apps – the interface to the customer – take on extra significance,” said Jörg Mayer, founder and CEO of CityLoop Travel GmbH.

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2019-05-08

CityLoop customers travel climate neutral

Walldorf, May 8, 2019. CityLoop, the first ride-sharing service on the road for business travelers, actively supports a carbon offset project in collaboration with ClimatePartner, which is certified to VCS and CCBS Gold Level. This commitment not only means that all journeys of the business travel start-up are offset, but also that all CityLoop customers automatically travel climate neutral at no extra cost.

To offset unavoidable fuel emissions, CityLoop decided on the forest protection project April Salumei, Papua New Guinea. The vast area of pristine rainforest plays an important role in storing CO2 as well as being the home of countless species of birds, exotic animals, and plants. Financing from the project also provides support for indigenous peoples, school education, health care, and small businesses.

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2019-04-30

CityLoop is starting trial operations along initial routes

Walldorf, 30 April 2019. Following a well-received launch event at the ITB trade show in Berlin, Germany, entrepreneur Jörg Mayer’s business travel start-up is beginning trial operations of the first ride-sharing service for business travellers on the road as planned. From today, select customers can travel the company’s initial routes, e.g. between the SAP campus in Walldorf and Frankfurt Airport.

The innovative limousine service, focussing on medium-distance journeys, follows the lead of scheduled services and, as a travel agency, books reasonably-priced seats in first class limousines. The circular routes, also known as “loops”, connect hotspots such as airports and major corporations and are serviced by select, experienced chauffeur service companies multiple times during the day, following a fixed schedule.

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2019-03-06

ITB 2019: CityLoop focuses on ride sharing for business travellers

Walldorf/Berlin, Germany, March 6, 2019. CityLoop celebrates its premiere! At ITB, the world’s largest tourism trade show opening today in Berlin, the start-up company run by entrepreneur Jörg Mayer is presenting the first ride-sharing service on the road for business travellers. The innovative limousine service, focussing on medium-distance journeys, follows the lead of scheduled services and, as a travel agency, books reasonably-priced seats in first class vehicles. The circular routes, also known as “loops”, connect hotspots such as airports and major corporations and are serviced by select, experienced chauffeur service companies multiple times during the day, following a fixed schedule. Up to three travellers can be transported safely, comfortably, and conveniently at the same time. Passengers can get on and off at numerous stop zones along the route, such as hotels, cafés, corporations, and car parks. On board the black cars, business travellers can work as they would in their own office or simply enjoy a relaxing break.

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2019-02-28

Late and unreliable modes of transport present the biggest hurdles during a business trip

Walldorf/Berlin, Germany, February 28, 2019. A recent survey of 587 German business travellers, carried out by YouGov Germany on behalf of CityLoop, paints a clear picture: 52 per cent of employees and decision makers travelling on business cite late and unreliable modes of transport as their biggest annoyance, while 34 per cent cite incomplete information in the event of delays as a further inconvenience. The CityLoop business travel study was carried out from 18–23 January 2019; 297 employees without a leadership role and 290 corporate decision makers were asked about their biggest annoyances while travelling and about their key requests for a pleasant and efficient business trip.

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2019-01-22

Innovative sharing concepts will change the business travel market for good

Walldorf/Berlin, Germany, January 22, 2019. To kick off the ITB Business Travel Forum, a joint conference format hosted by the VDR trade association and the ITB trade show, the focus will be on forward-looking sharing and pooling concepts for the business travel sector in particular. At 4 p.m. on 6 March 2019 (ITB, conference hall 7.1a, New York 1 room), Jörg Mayer, founder and CEO of CityLoop Travel GmbH, will give a talk on why innovative sharing concepts will change the business travel market for good and how companies and employees can benefit.

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