Electric bikes deliver the goods

When Mina Nada moved to Singapore five years ago, he got around on shared electric bikes. Locals had already taken to them in a big way, and he quickly realised they were faster than an Uber and cheaper than a bus ticket. “They were fun, and good for my health,” he says. Perhaps they could also be used for deliveries? Nada was working for Deliveroo in Sydney, but back then only a few people were using electric bikes commercially because they were expensive. Could he change that?

Putting two and two together and committing plenty of long hours, Nada and a former work colleague at management consultant Bain, Michael Johnson, came up with Zoomo. “We wanted a solution that was better than delivery riders already had,” he explains. “I went to all the bike conferences in Asia and Europe,