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Travis Vanderzanden

Founder of Bird

Miami, Florida

Overview 

Travis VanderZanden is the Founder of Bird, a successful electric scooter company, with a background that includes key roles at Uber and Lyft. His career highlights include leading growth initiatives at major tech companies and founding successful startups like Cherry.com. Currently, Travis VanderZanden serves as Chairman and Founder of Bird, a pioneering company in the transportation industry, following impactful leadership roles at Uber and Lyft.

Work Experience 

  • Chairman & Founder

    2017 - 2023

Bird designs a vehicle sharing platform that provides affordable transportation solutions to communities across the world.

Raised $916,000,000.00 from Travis VanderZanden and Shane Torchiana.

  • VP of Global Driver Growth

    2014 - 2016

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.

Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2013 - 2014

Lyft’s Atlanta driver service center is a high quality, fairly-priced vehicle services.

  • CEO & Co-founder

    2011 - 2013

  • Chief Revenue Officer

    2009 - 2011

Yammer is an enterprise social network that enables employees to collaborate across departments, geographies and business applications.

Raised $142,000,000.00 from Max Levchin, Emergence, Social Capital, Khosla Ventures, DFJ Growth, U.S. Venture Partners, Capricorn Investment Group, Tuesday Capital, Ronnie Lott and Capricorn Partners.

  • Sr. Product Manager

    2002 - 2007

Ultra-Scan Corporation is an identity management solutions provider and a pioneer in development of high accuracy, fingerprint Technology.

Raised $18,000,000.00 from Tom Golisano.

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