The Omicron variant and the uncertainties it creates for transport companies do not frighten investors.
In any case, not those who bet on start-ups.
On Tuesday, VTC specialist Bolt, which is active in more than 400 cities in 45 countries, raised 628 million euros.
A sum that makes you dizzy: even the neobank Qonto, which made talk about it in France by collecting 486 million Tuesday, is very far from this figure.
This allows Uber's challenger to post a huge valuation for a company that is not on the stock market: 7.4 billion euros.
Almost three times more than Air France-KLM, listed in Paris.
A surge that is matched only by Bolt's appetite to invest in new markets: for the past two years, the young Estonian shoot has added to its VTC activity the operation of
free-floating
scooters and bicycles , the delivery of meals, fifteen-minute grocery delivery and self-service car rental.
Focus on Africa
And this app, which ...
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