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BEERIDES

Beerides is a airport car sharing service founded in 2015 in Budapest,Hungary by Bozóki Szilárd, Bősze Botond, Szot Márton.

History
BeeRides Car Sharing was founded in 2015 by Botond Bosze, Szilard Bozoki, and Marton Szot. In 2018 Gergo Kalcsics has joined the management team. The company employs 10 people. BeeRides Car Sharing has welcomed users from 4 continents and from over 50 countries. BeeRides is a German-Hungarian car-sharing service with a focus on airports that helps travelers to park for free at airports and get additional revenue by renting out their cars for those who need a rental car. Car owners who rent out their cars for longer period get guaranteed income besides the free parking. The company operates at Budapest Liszt Ferenc Airport since 2015, as well as Frankfurt Airport, Düsseldorf Aiport and at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport since 2018. The company has received more than 1 million € in venture capital investment. The latest investor is the Innogy Innovation Hub who invested to BeeRides in 2018. Beerides’s service is accessible through the website directly online. This service offers two different choices for customers. First, customers can rent a cart by providing their personal details together with the payment information, then they can collect the rental car at any time. Secondly, customers can also park and monetize their own car. Moreover, there is no administration or staff at the parking lot, with the transaction code customers are able to open the Smart Locker and drop their car key and document.

Conception
Beerides is based on the sharing economy model also known as a collaborative consumption. BeeRides provides free parking at airports and rents out these vehicles to incoming tourists. Besides the free parking, the car owners can get money directly from this rental. The fee depends on the make, model and the production year of the car. For rental customers, BeeRides Car Sharing provides different kind of cars and a large range of price guarantee. With the help of the in-house developed smart locker, users can collect the key and the papers of the car non-stop. The users are expected to complete the contracting and payment process online. Given its automated user flow, it’s not possible to park or rent a car with BeeRides by phone or in person.

International Expansion
Dortmund Airport After two years of operating in Budapest, in June 2017 BeeRides has opened its first location in Germany, at Dortmund Airport. The company has suspended its operation in 2018 as a result of a shift in focus towards larger airports.

Düsseldorf Airport In April 2018 BeeRides has become available at the Düsseldorf Airport which is the third busiest airport in Germany. Similar to the Budapest location, the company runs his service/operation in Germany with local partners.

Berlin-Schönefeld Airport The next location after Düsseldorf has opened soon in August 2018 in Berlin near the Berlin-Schönefeld Airport that has around 13 million passengers annually.

Frankfurt Airport In October 2018 after the successful opening in Düsseldorf and Berlin, BeeRides Car Sharing started its operations at the busiest German airport too, at Frankfurt Airport.

Fleet
The BeeRides fleet is composed of cars owned by private individuals. According to the company among the car owners, there are people who travel for a few weeks, people who work abroad for a longer period of time and leave their car at the airport, as well as people who have bought a car or cars for investment purposes. The company also has professional cars in its fleet.

Awards received
BeeRides Car Sharing has received the following awards:

In July 2016 BeeRides has won the Ford Applink Mobility Challenge competition in Budapest. By the winning, they have become entitled to attend to the 24 hours long international Ford AppLink Developer Challenge competition in September 2016 in Berlin. BeeRides Car Sharing has won the 140 000 € total prize competition with other 7 companies.

In November 2016, at the eDigital Challenge in Paris, the company was a finalist in the Digital Cities category and got a certificate of merit for the participation

BeeRides Car Sharing has achieved successes at the Budapesti Vállalkozásfejlesztési Közalapítvány organized Be Smart startup competitions. The company has won the 5th, 7th and 8th editions of the Be Smart startup competition.