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We are thrilled to welcome Tarani Duncan as our new Chief Product Officer (CPO)! Tarani joins Bloom with over a decade of expertise in product and operations management, honed across an impressive array of leading tech and mobility companies, including Mapbox, Motivate LLC (Citi Bike), Uber (Jump), Croft, and Compound Eye. Tarani’s deep experience in hardware, embedded devices, mapping, and cloud services will be instrumental as we continue to innovate and expand our platform. Her leadership will drive the next phase of our development, enhancing automation to better serve the growing community of mobility companies that rely on Bloom. Join us (+ Artie ??) in giving a warm welcome to Tarani as she embarks on this exciting journey with us! ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? #Leadership #ProductManagement #Innovation #MobilityTech #Togetherwebloom Newlab Michigan Central #MichiganMobility #micromobility

After a brief summer break in the announcements, we’re back at it! We are thrilled to announce Weel joining Bloom's platform and scaling its operations into the Newlab @ Michigan Central ecosystem in Detroit. Founded in Seattle in 2018 with a vision to create a more sustainable and connected urban transportation system, Weel has been at the forefront of mobility advancements. Backed by investors like the Amazon Alexa Fund, Weel is preparing for commercialization by leveraging its advanced AI-powered stability systems and smart actuators into new form factors. Here is a great clip of their technology in use: https://lnkd.in/ggrGywvP "Our partnership with Bloom aligns perfectly with Weel's commitment to advancing the domestic mobility sector. We are excited to join a community that shares our passion for advanced electric mobility. This partnership will enhance our capabilities and contribute to the growth of the domestic micromobility industry. By leveraging Bloom’s platform, Weel will improve operational efficiency and expand product development and production." -Justin Corbett Bloom is dedicated to supporting brands of all sizes in scaling their operations. Our growing network is core to building a stronger domestic ecosystem. By joining Bloom, brands are poised to achieve immediate improvements in logistics, assembly, and distribution processes. Justin Kosmides, Co-Founder of Bloom, said, "We are excited to welcome Weel to our platform. Together, we will drive innovation in the domestic urban mobility space and offer more companies access to a network that facilitates continued scale at an efficient cost structure."

Thank you to Adele Peters from Fast Company for helping to tell the story of Bloom and our role in reshoring the American electric mobility industry. Full link to the article below. “We pull contract manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and after-sales support onto a nationwide platform,” says Bloom cofounder Justin Kosmides. “It’s meant so these companies can offload their operations or parts of their supply chain onto a shared network. It gives us the benefits of vertical integration without the heavy capital expenditure necessary to truly spin up your own factory or production lines.” https://lnkd.in/eCnPvZSN

We are excited to welcome Beacon MFG into our growing network of contract manufacturers and service providers. Beacon MFG represents an important step for mobility companies to have access to smaller batch manufacturing options on the network. Beacon MFG will provide 10k square feet of dedicated lean manufacturing space, including advanced machinery such as robotic wheel building, laser tube cutter, robotic welding, and access to all of the latest in manufacturing available at Newlab to partners on our network. It will also offer access to fully equipped assembly stations for small and medium-sized mobility companies to lease on a short-term basis, with access to skilled support technicians for assembly and frame building. We are thrilled to see local investments in building out this type of capacity. The natural ecosystem and concentration of brands aggregating more of the ecosystem. We are excited to see the continuation of Detroit Bikes at Beacon MFG.

Benno Bikes has partnered with Bloom as a development and marketing center for its US operations. Benno Bikes will utilize Bloom’s platform for support, logistics, and future brand development services. Adding Benno Bikes to Newlab at Michigan Central represents the continued growth of Detroit’s mobility ecosystem, leveraging this growing ecosystem to improve Benno Bikes’s operational efficiency, product engineering and prototyping, and sales and marketing capabilities. Benno Bikes will continue to partner with Quality Bicycle Products for its existing US-based distribution and after-sales service. Benno Bikes’s three decades of dedication and passion for innovating in the mobility industry is indisputable. Originally from Berlin, Germany, Benno co-founded the Electra Bicycle Company in San Diego, California, shortly after graduating from design school in 1993. Having successfully scaled and sold the company, his continued desire to innovate and design bicycles led him to create Benno Bikes in 2015. Renowned for their skill in designing bikes that combine fun and practicality, Benno Bikes created a new category called Etility?, which is transportation bikes with the ability to carry extended cargo and the versatility to do more. Bloom provides operations-as-service for the electric mobility industry, providing new standards and capacities for domestic manufacturing, assembly, delivery, and servicing. Bloom has facilitated a network of partner providers across the industry to aggregate shared services and build economies of scale so brands of any size can leverage operational efficiencies and better unit economies. We are honored to be working with such a beloved innovator of electric bikes during this next growth phase for Benno Bikes. Benno Bikes’s drive to future-proof the electric mobility industry is aligned with Bloom’s highest mission. For more information about Bloom’s network and what we’re doing to improve the operational efficiency of the mobility industry, contact us at [email protected] Detroit Regional Partnership City of Detroit Crain's Detroit Business Michigan Economic Development Corporation Bicycle Retailer and Industry News Zag Daily Micromobility Industries Electrek.co Miss GoElectric

LAND Energy, a Cleveland-based electric mobility and battery manufacturer, announces it is joining forces with Bloom, a Detroit-based aggregated and standardized marketplace offering operations-as-a-service for the Light Electric Vehicle (LEV) industry.?? ? The strategic partnership builds upon LAND Energy’s vision: change mobile energy through e-mobility and swappable batteries. With 20 global patents, LAND Energy’s compact and connected CORE battery platform moves two-wheel and four-wheel LEVs as well as boats and RVs and provides a portable power grid. As part of the new collaboration, LAND Energy will be one of Bloom’s preferred electric battery suppliers, which will allow Bloom’s manufacturing partners the ability to integrate LAND Energy’s latest battery technology into their e-motos. In addition, LAND Energy will join Bloom's network of domestic and international partners that are on a mission to ‘future-proof’ the e-mobility industry through collaboration, shared resources, and vertical integration, ensuring transportation is economically resilient and environmentally responsible.? ? “LAND Energy has built an intelligent, portable electric battery platform to power other companies,” LAND Energy Founder and CEO Scott Colosimo says. “This partnership comes at an ideal time as the U.S. and the industry seek swappable, standardized solutions for electric vehicles."? ? Bloom is committed to building a robust ecosystem of U.S.-based suppliers, with the goal of establishing a healthy domestic supply chain leading to efficiency among electric mobility manufactures and greater access to clean tech.? ? “The CORE battery allows companies to get to market faster by leveraging the battery expertise of LAND Energy,” Bloom Co-Founder Justin Kosmides says. “LAND Energy is an excellent addition to the ecosystem we are building, which will allow new brands to grow in a much more efficient way. Economies of scale and shared resources are critical elements that mature markets depend on, and this partnership is a great step in that direction.”? ? With this relationship, LAND Energy and Bloom expect industry partners to experience multiple benefits, including lower production costs and operating in a resilient market.? ? To learn more about Bloom's operations-as-service, contact us at [email protected]

Thank you Sean O'Kane for capturing the birth and rise of Bloom’s platform in such a perfect way for TechCrunch. https://lnkd.in/ehRwUXXw "Founded last year, Bloom [Platform] plans to offer a few core services: contract manufacturing, assembly, shipping and logistics and service. Each of these are tasks that startups would previously have to find individual partners for or take on in house, both of which increase costs and put pressure on the bottom lines. It’s those extra undertakings that can doom a startup....It’s proving popular, too; their customer list is as long as a CVS receipt… Nolte says around 30 companies are set to start working with Bloom in the near-term. Kosmides says there are more than 100 in the pipeline ranging from startups that are just past the prototyping stage to “very mature” players. A lot of this will happen at a production space in Michigan, though the duo plans to work with partners in California, Ohio, South Carolina and New York. The goal is to launch a 200,000-square-foot facility in Detroit with distribution and assembly capabilities. They’ve accomplished this with little outreach and a team of just about 10 people — though they plan to roughly double that headcount as they close their first funding round. If all goes well, Nolte and Kosmides hope to not only help these companies build better businesses but also establish more standards for an industry that is currently very scattered." To learn more about our vision and capability offerings, please contact Chris Nolte, Justin Kosmides, and our team at [email protected]

Bloom's turn-key network allows global?brands, from startups to established players, in the mobility industry to manage sales, marketing, and finance from their current HQ while leveraging our platform to manage their logistics, fulfillment, and after-sales service network. To learn more about Bloom's rapid expansion of its vertically integrated platform and our strategic decision to invest in Detroit’s legacy of mobility as one of our hubs, see Crain's Detroit Business's interview with Bloom co-founder Justin Kosmides: https://lnkd.in/gzsyP6TH

Cardinal Cycling Group (CCG) has been one the leading forces in the growth of the domestic bicycle manufacturing ecosystem, and we are thrilled to welcome them to the Bloom platform in an exciting partnership that expands Bloom’s national network to South Carolina. While Bloom is proud to be headquartered in Detroit, our highest mission is to unlock the full potential of American mobility by connecting every uniquely specialized hub of manufacturing, assembly, distribution, and service nationwide. The partnership between Bloom and Cardinal Cycling Group will facilitate a growing number of micromobility companies relocating manufacturing, logistics, and service to Bloom’s vertically integrated platform. Bloom offers vertical integration via aggregation and industry-leading standardization by providing brands with a network of high-quality, vetted service providers across the marketplace. ? Over the last year, Cardinal Cycling Group acquired a 140,000 square-foot facility and has assembled the investment and infrastructure to initiate the cluster of advanced manufacturing and distribution within Spartanburg County, SC. For more information on Cardinal Cycling Group’s expanding partnership network and acquisitions, see Stephen Frothingham of Bicycle Retailer and Industry News’s recent coverage: https://lnkd.in/eaAipPX4 “Spartanburg County, SC is the perfect environment for this cycling and micromobility cluster to form; With excellent port connectivity to Europe and 2-day delivery times to the eastern half of the United States, combined with a manufacturing heritage, scalable workforce, and one of the nation’s best cycling cultures. A regional approach, like that of the 45+ company-strong Portugal Bicycle Valley, is the model for creating these viable ecosystems,” says Tony Karklins, CEO of Cardinal Cycling Group “As the American mobility industry enters a period of maturity, Bloom’s network will be synergized to ensure that the future of transportation is economically resilient and environmentally responsible. Our turn-key network allows a European-based brand to manage sales, marketing, and finance from their current HQ and let Bloom manage the inbound logistics, assembly, fulfillment, and aftersales service in the Americas.” Chris Nolte, Co-founder of Bloom In its role as a movement leader in reshoring the industry, Bloom is currently in conversation with industry leaders and local governments to further support its expansion plans, and working with partners from across the mobility community to create a more reliable, sustainable, and resilient domestic market. For more information, contact Chris Nolte, Justin Kosmides, and our team at [email protected]

Bloom and fellow Michigan-based Edison Manufacturing and Engineering have entered a groundbreaking partnership to elevate American contract manufacturing and assembly. With a mutual goal of optimizing production for multiple electric mobility brands by facilitating shared common networks, this exciting partnership results in increased efficiencies and competitive unit economies for brands scaling their manufacturing.? Bloom’s platform aggregates brands and OEMs and aligns the existing and growing domestic service providers, including contract manufacturers, resulting in efficiencies in scaled production lines and establishing shared costs of domestic end-to-end capabilities. Bloom and Edison Manufacturing and Engineering’s shared collaborative ethos exemplifies our mission to create a concentrated network effect with industry-leading standardization, resulting in a more competitive per-unit cost basis. Edison Manufacturing and Engineering is a visionary contract manufacturer focused on the assembly of complex mobility and mobility-adjacent products that aren’t well suited for traditional, highly automated assembly. Specializing in annual production volumes ranging from small-batch to tens of thousands, they offer timelines and order minimums that are more flexible and capital-efficient than traditional manufacturing models. All while leveraging decades of automotive production experience to increase standards of quality, performance, and reliability.? “Edison Manufacturing and Engineering is focused on providing a customer- and product-centric manufacturing solution that serves our customers’ needs here in the US. This partnership with Bloom allows us to expand our value offering, providing an exceptional, end-to-end solution for brands throughout the mobility space.”?Brandon Bartneck, Edison Manufacturing and Engineering VP & GM “At Bloom, we want the brands in our network and their customers to have confidence in knowing where these vehicles come from and to feel invested in the places and people that made, delivered, and serviced them. We’re working together with service producers like Edison Manufacturing and Engineering to build American products more efficiently, improving the unit economies by aggregating demand.” Justin Kosmides, Bloom Co-Founder If you’re interested in learning more about joining our rapidly growing vertically integrated network, please reach out to Chris Nolte, Justin Kosmides, or our team at [email protected]?