What Qucit does

Qucit SAS is a French B2B SaaS company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Bordeaux that builds logistics optimization software for shared micro-mobility operators. Its core product, Qucit Bike, is a dual-interface platform comprising a manager dashboard for real-time system monitoring, KPI tracking, and field team management, and a mobile application used by field regulators and technicians to execute rebalancing, maintenance, battery swap, and station control tasks. The platform is supported by predictive machine learning models that forecast vehicle rentals and returns up to 24 hours in advance using real-time station occupancy, historical dynamics, and calendar-based contextual features, with deployment spanning mechanical, electric, and cargo bikes across physical, virtual, free-floating, and hybrid station configurations.

The company's commercial offering is delivered through annual SaaS subscriptions priced on a fleet/system-scale basis, sold via direct enterprise sales to operators and municipal authorities, with implementation and support services complementing the core subscription. Distribution is purely direct, supported by content marketing, an active webinar series, conference participation (Velo-City, Autonomy), and the UGAP French public-procurement listing for government buyers. Named enterprise customers include Smovengo (Paris Vélib'), Tembici (Latin America's largest bike-share operator), Shift Transit (Bike Share Toronto), Inurba Mobility (Stockholm, Lima), Clear Channel (Antwerp), Pedal Movement (Long Beach), Decobike (Miami), and government operators including Tartu City Transport, TAM Montpellier, Emel Lisbon, and SAGULPA Las Palmas, with the platform deployed across more than 30 cities in 14 countries on three continents. The company was founded and is led by Raphaël Cherrier, with Gabriele Barbieri as Chief Data Scientist and Hassene Ben Salem as CTO, and has raised approximately $1.98M in disclosed funding (2018 round led by investors including Bpifrance, Pi2invest, Third Sphere, and URBAN-X).

Name

Qucit

Legal name

Qucit SAS

Website

https://qucit.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Qucit is a French B2B SaaS company that builds AI-driven logistics optimization software (Qucit Bike) for shared micro-mobility operators, serving bike-share operators and municipalities across 30+ cities and 14 countries with predictive rebalancing, maintenance, and battery management tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Shared micro-mobility operations software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Bikeshare (Station-Based/Docked) (TLAFAMAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Bikeshare (Dockless) (TLAFAMAF), Station-Based Bike Rentals (Bikeshare) (THADAGAD), Dockless Bike Rentals (THADAGAC)

Keywords

• Shared mobility software
• Bike-share operations
• Micro-mobility logistics
• Fleet rebalancing optimization
• Predictive analytics platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Bègles

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Qucit Bike SaaS Subscription: Qucit operates as a B2B SaaS company providing logistics optimization software to shared micro-mobility operators (bike-share systems). The software consists of a manager dashboard and a mobile application for field teams. Revenue is generated through software subscriptions, with pricing based on fleet size or system scale (number of bikes/stations managed). Implementation, configuration, and support services complement the core subscription.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Qucit develops and sells Qucit Bike, a SaaS logistics optimization platform for shared micro-mobility operators. The product combines a manager-facing dashboard with a mobile app for field technicians, using machine learning to predict demand, automate rebalancing, manage battery swaps, and coordinate maintenance for bike-share fleets. The software supports mechanical, electric, and cargo bikes across physical, virtual, free-floating, and hybrid station configurations.

Product overview

Qucit offers Qucit Bike as its unified core product—a SaaS platform for logistics optimization of shared micro-mobility operations. The platform consists of a Manager Dashboard module for monitoring system performance and field teams in real-time, and a Mobile Application module for field operators to execute optimized tasks. An additional module, Bike Charging, extends the platform to handle electric bike battery swapping and intelligent bike repositioning to charging stations. The software supports all types of bikes (mechanical, electric, cargo) and all parking solutions (physical stations, virtual stations, free-floating, and hybrid systems).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Qucit Bike SaaS logistics optimization platform for shared micro-mobility operators, combining a manager dashboard and a mobile application to automate fleet rebalancing, broken bike collection, battery swaps, and station maintenance. Built for operators of mechanical, electric, and cargo bikes across physical, virtual, free-floating, and hybrid station configurations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 68% improvement in empty station rates; 46% improvement in full station rates; 66% improvement in bike availability; 27% increase in trips; 76% increase in subscribers
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• NowosminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNowos is a Dutch company specializing in lithium-ion battery repair for soft mobility operators. Founded in 2019, Nowos repairs batteries using original components while maintaining UN38.3 certification. Qucit references Nowos in its battery management content as a partner in the shared micro-mobility ecosystem, discussing best practices for battery lifecycle management and battery swapping operations.
• VélogikminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVélogik is a professional fleet maintenance company founded in 2008, specializing in industrial maintenance for bike-share systems. They operate technicenters in cities where bike-share systems are deployed. Qucit references Vélogik in its maintenance operations content as an industry partner providing maintenance services that complement Qucit's operational software.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Optibus: Optibus provides AI-driven optimization software for public transit agencies and operators, including vehicle scheduling, rostering, and on-demand transit. It is comparable to Qucit as a competing AI optimization vendor selling into shared-mobility and public-transportation buyers, although Optibus focuses on fixed-route and on-demand transit rather than bike-share rebalancing.
• PBSC Urban Solutions: PBSC Urban Solutions supplies end-to-end bike-share systems including hardware, stations, and a back-office software suite used by many of the world's largest operators. It overlaps with Qucit on the bike-share operations software layer (BSS) and competes for the same operator budgets, but PBSC also owns the hardware and station layer, making it a broader incumbent.
• Cubic Transportation Systems: Cubic provides large-scale urban mobility software, including fare collection, real-time transit information, and bike-share back-office systems for major cities. It is comparable to Qucit as a competing vendor of bike-share and urban mobility software for city and operator customers, but operates at significantly greater scale across many transit modalities.
• Via Transportation: Via provides shared-ride and on-demand transit software deployed across hundreds of cities, with route optimization and matching algorithms. It is comparable to Qucit in optimizing shared-mobility operations using AI, but focuses on ride-pooling/DRT rather than bike-share field logistics.
• Hacon (Siemens Mobility): Hacon, part of Siemens Mobility, provides planning, scheduling, and mobility-platform software for public transit agencies and mobility operators. It is comparable to Qucit as a transit/mobility software vendor with optimization capabilities, but Hacon addresses a much broader set of planning and ticketing use cases across rail and bus.

Direct peers

• Padam Mobility: Padam Mobility builds SaaS platforms for on-demand and shared mobility services, including paratransit, DRT, and micro-mobility, with optimization engines for demand-responsive routing. It is directly comparable to Qucit as a software-only vendor targeting shared-mobility operators with AI-driven dispatch and routing, though it focuses more on DRT/ride-share than bike-share rebalancing.
• nextbike: nextbike operates bike-share systems across Europe and beyond and develops its own operations and rebalancing software stack for its operator partners. It is comparable to Qucit as an organization building bike-share operations technology, with the difference that nextbike typically bundles software with its own operations offering rather than selling software-only.
• Smoove (Lyft Urban Solutions): Smoove supplies bike-share systems with hardware, stations, and an operations software platform and is now part of Lyft Urban Solutions. It competes with Qucit on the bike-share operations software layer and shares the same operator buyer, with the key distinction that Smoove vertically integrates hardware and software.

Emerging players

• Spare Technology: Spare offers a microtransit and on-demand transit platform used by transit agencies and shared-mobility operators, with optimization and rider-facing tools. It is comparable to Qucit as a SaaS vendor for shared mobility with similar buyer personas (transit agencies, mobility operators), though Spare focuses on paratransit and microtransit rather than bike-share rebalancing.
• Movatic: Movatic provides a white-label bike-share platform with software for operators, including station management, payments, and operations tools. It is directly comparable to Qucit as a software-only vendor targeting bike-share operators, though typically at smaller scale and with a focus on US municipal and university systems.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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