CycleHop LLC is a

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platform and mobility company that operates bike share systems in fifteen cities in North America, including Vancouver Bike Share in

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History

The company's founder traces its history back to 1997 and the company's first patent for an "unattended automated bicycle rental station." In April 2014, the company bought Capital Bixi company in

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and in October re-launched the service under VeloGo brand in

Ottawa Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern Ontario, southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the cor ...

. In 2016, it launched bike-sharing service

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Vancouver Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...

, sponsored by

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. However, in June 2019, the company announced that was pulling out from Ottawa. As of January 2015, the firm operated bike-sharing systems in seven cities. In March 2018, the firm launched HOPR (pronounced like “hopper”), a

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that allows to search for public transport, car share and bike share options. As of 2018, it was running bike-sharing systems in 15 cities in the

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and Canada. The company had planned to move its headquarters from Miami Beach to Santa Monica in 2015, but remained headquartered in Florida as of 2019. In 2021, CycleHop launched its flagship ride-share program in Rochester under its contract with Rochester Transit Service. The program received a $240,000 grant to add 8 stations to low income neighborhoods in Monroe County. The stations, at which users could find traditional bicycles, electric bikes, and scooters, were developed through a partnership with Emergnt Design Labs and manufactured in Rochester.

References

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