The summer can come, BBVA team Zurich is ready to cycle. We are thrilled to partner with BBVA and provide their team with an e-bike fleet, wishing you loads of fun rides.

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BBVA wrote this great english article about the advantages of a corporate e-bike fleet.

Bienvenidos BBVA Suiza!

Happy to have you on board 

June 15, 2020

​Corporate bike-sharing? More like expertise sharing this time :) 

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Yesterday we had an awesome opportunity to share our vision with Latin America. Thanks to Switzerland Global Enterprise & Empa, Urban Connect AG together with other Swiss start-ups in the urban mobility sector managed to showcase their business initiatives aiming to solve a bigger social problem. 

Urban mobility knowledge exchange with Latin America

June 28, 2019

Female leadership isn’t a buzzword in our office. In fact, it is a day to day reality that guides us to achieve new milestones, deliver and prosper at the workplace.

It warms our hearts that not only Urban Connect AG has a power woman in charge. Many other companies like Ava Women, Travelise, WeAct AG, AgroSustain SA embrace female pilotage on a daily basis, Swiss-wide.

According to the research done by Swisscom & Startupticker.ch each year more and more women in Switzerland opt for transforming their entrepreneurial aspirations into reality. Should it be fintech or education, agrotech or fashion, biotech or entertainment, - you may find motivated women-leaders in each business sector. Check out this interactive map of woman-led companies in Switzerland. Is yours on the list? 

Here are the Swiss woman-led start-ups

June 10, 2019

​Barely a month ago our team was performing the final tests on our brand new LOCKING SOLUTION and today we are proud to showcase you this innovation that excites.

Seamless, digital, simple.

A matter of one click! Just BIKE, YOU and THE VIEW! (…and Urban Connect App on your phone)

We thoroughly analysed feedback from our clients and took into account requests and wishes of our beloved users. Our new framelock solution ensures maximum bike safety, liberates you from dealing with cable locks and saves you time especially if that meeting with the executive board is to start in 3min.

If you are considering to launch a 🚲 initiative at your company, it’s your chance to benefit from our innovative solution. Our team will gladly provide you with e-bikes and take you for a test-ride around the city as well as explain every aspect of our offering. It’s high time to rethink your corporate mobility! Contact us today! 

New lock for bikes

and e-bikes fleet

May 17, 2019

Have you already seen the article about us on Xing? If not, here's a preview :)

The article includes an interview with our beautiful CEO, Judith Häberli, talking about the human transportation challenges in cities, the growing number of single occupancy vehicles and the way we can claim urban space back. She defines 4 steps in achieving urban space composure. What are these 4 steps?

4 steps to claim back our cities

April 15, 2019

​The Summit on Business Transformation - Transformamus 2019 - was a great success and absolute joy to participate in. Plenary lectures as well as breakout sessions on health, mobility, e-commerce, innovation, leadership and culture were full of latest insights delivered by top speakers from business and science. 

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Urban Connect was honoured to talk about the future of urban mobility and its approach to such pressing issue as urban traffic congestion.

Transformamus 2019

March 20, 2019

​We are so excited to announce that we won two more cubes in the categories "UX" and "mobile" together with Liip at the Meilleur du web Award 2018! Big thank you to Liip and the whole Urban Connect team for making this happen. 

Meilleurduweb Award 2018

Nov 22, 2018

​Together with Liip, we won gold in the category Enterprise and Bronze in the category Business Innovation at the Best of Swiss Apps Award 2018!
The Jury says "Urban Connect" is exciting from A to Z. The app is simple and functional, and the innovative business model is well thought out! The value chain relies on locally anchored partners and extends to the customer's employees.

Urban Connect makes mobility with e-bikes more ecological and cost-effective and offers its B2B customers a complete service from evaluation of use to prompt maintenance."

Best of Swiss Enterprise 2018

Nov 09, 2018

In a 3 month period we estimate that the brand new implenia e-bike fleet has done

1983.4 km so far which is the equivalent of having travelled the Gotharpass (57,104 km) 34.5 times, keep riding implenia!

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Would you like to find out more about Implenias sustainability approach?

Welcome Implenia

and what a great job!

June 01, 2020

This Saturday Urban Connect took part in a wonderful initiative organised by UNICEF Schweiz und Liechtenstein.

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‘Cycling for children’ is an annual event happening in Switzerland where multiple companies, families and private parties cycle to raise awareness of the socio-economic challenges underprivileged kids are facing nowadays as well as to raise funds and tackle the issue.

We are excited to have taken part in this action on Greifensee and met likeminded companies and families.

UNICEF cycling for children

June 16, 2019

​Red hot e-bike fleet rollout happening today in Schaan! We are excited to welcome HILTI Group to the family! Have you seen a corporate mobility solution more beautiful than this one ?

Premium quality vehicles, corporate branding, spacious and robust bike panniers to carry your belongings, phone holders for your GPS convenience, smart locking and booking system with our Urban Connect App, 3-sized helmets, around-the-working-week customer support, urgent and regular maintenance and many more perks.

Freedom of mobility, absolute flexibility, better concentration and reduced late appearances as well as improved fitness of employees are some of the benefit HILTI is about to experience. We cannot wait to accompany you on this ride!

HILTI e-bike fleet rollout - we are stoked! 

May 27,2019

​We are absolutely stoked about our yesterday's experience at the GAM Client Conference 2019 in Rüschlikon. Stunning presentations about urban mobility, future development of cities and food left us inspired and even more motivated to push towards sustainable future and impact-driven business solutions.

We couldn't thank GAM Investments and RFS more for letting us present our vision and soak up the expertise of the amazing Steve Westly, indulge in savvy smart city insights delivered by the brilliant Dr. Felix Klanner and Dr. Horst Kloeden, try plant-based Swiss cheese, vegan scrambled eggs as well as enjoy every other equally amazing speech of this event. Here's to the brighter future!

Changing the way we commute to work! 

UC at the GAM Client Conference on emerging innovations for a better world 2019

May 16, 2019

​Der globale Transportsektor befindet sich im Umbruch. Mit über 1,2 Milliarden Autos, die heute auf den Strassen unterwegs sind und fast ein Viertel der weltweiten CO2-Emissionen ausmachen, ist der Sektor mit steigenden sozialen und ökologischen Kosten konfrontiert, was ein grundlegendes Umdenken der städtischen Mobilitätssysteme erfordert...

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Zukunft der urbanen Mobilität:

Städte für Menschen entwickeln

April 03, 2019

​In November we had the chance to take part in the Urban Innovation Hackathon in Zurich. We were honored to share our sustainable mobility solution with other Startups and politicians, exchange ideas and get to know a lot of innovative solutions for modern cities and smart cities. 

Urban Innovation Hackathon 2018

Nov 23, 2018

​Global Warming and how to decelerate or even reverse it, has become one of the central challenges of the 21st century. On the 13th of November 2018, Urban Connect had the chance to present its sustainable mobility solution on stage at the Ecole Internationale de Geneve. Also, we had the honor to experience the incredible speech of Professor Jacques Dubochet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2017, about "Science-Based Solutions to Global Warming". A big thank you to Drawdown for having us at this amazing event!

Swiss Nobel laureate Jacques Dubochet: Reversing global warming by Drawdown Switzerland

Nov 13, 2018

​We are thrilled to be nominated for the "Best of Swiss Apps 2018" Award!Our APP makes it possible to book bikes straightly from the smartphone and to manage bookings intuitively. Big thanks to our partners at Liip.

Best of Swiss Apps 2018

Oct 25, 2018