CoopCycle

What CoopCycle does

CoopCycle is a French non-profit federation of worker-owned bike delivery cooperatives, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Paris at 210 rue Saint-Denis. It provides an open-access logistics platform — the CoopCycle Delivery Platform — covering order management, route planning, courier management, invoicing, and a storefront interface for local businesses, distributed under the bespoke Coopyleft reciprocity license that restricts commercial use to cooperatives and non-profit organizations in the social and solidarity economy. The software can be self-installed from GitHub, but commercial operators are steered into the federation.

The federation monetizes through a two-tier subscription: €49 per month during a cooperative's first year, then 2% of platform-mediated delivery revenue thereafter (e.g., €100/month on €5,000 of revenue). On top of the platform, CoopCycle runs the CoopCycle Academy (ERASMUS+ funded), Slack-based peer support, mentorship and training, business-development assistance, and the Maison des Coursiers physical support centers in Paris (since 2021) and Bordeaux (since 2023), with planned expansion to Nantes and Lyon. Member cooperatives include Corbo (Bayonne), Mensakas (Barcelona), Eraman Repartos Koop (Gasteiz), Tricargo (Hamburg), Naofood (Nantes), and No Bad Days (Aarhus), spanning France, Spain, Germany, and Denmark. Customers on the demand side are fragmented SMBs (restaurants, shops) and public institutions contracting for decarbonized urban logistics. CoopCycle has approximately 20 staff, no venture funding, and relies on membership fees, ERASMUS+ grants, and City of Paris support.

Name

CoopCycle

Legal name

CoopCycle

Website

https://coopcycle.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CoopCycle is a French federation of worker-owned bike delivery cooperatives that provides an open-access logistics platform licensed under the Coopyleft reciprocity license, plus training and physical courier support through its Maison des Coursiers network, serving member cooperatives across France, Spain, Germany, and Denmark.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Bike Logistics Software

NAICS

Freight Transportation Arrangement (48851), Local Messengers and Local Delivery (4922)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Arrangement Of Transportation Of Freight & Cargo (4731)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTLAEAGAL

Urban Micro-Mobility & Courier Routing (Bike/Scooter)

Transportation & Logistics/Logistics Technology & Telematics (TMS/WMS, Tracking, ELD/IoT)/Routing, Dispatch & Last-Mile Optimization Software

Keywords

• Bike logistics software
• Cooperative delivery platform
• Last-mile delivery management
• Cyclologististics software
• Cooperative federation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris, Ile-de-France

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Federation Membership Fees: Cooperatives joining the CoopCycle federation pay a structured fee: €49 per month during the first year to support their launch. After the first year, members contribute 2% of their delivery revenue generated through the platform. For example, a cooperative generating €5,000 in monthly revenue contributes €100 per month.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

CoopCycle provides the CoopCycle Delivery Platform, a complete open-access bike logistics platform designed for worker-owned delivery cooperatives. The platform bundles order management, route planning, courier management, invoicing, and a storefront interface for local businesses. Around the software, the federation offers onboarding, mentorship, training, business development, grant-seeking support, and the CoopCycle Academy, with the platform governed by the proprietary Coopyleft reciprocity license.

Product overview

CoopCycle operates as a federation of bike delivery cooperatives offering a layered product portfolio anchored by the CoopCycle Delivery Platform — a complete open-access bike logistics platform licensed under the Coopyleft reciprocity license. The platform provides order management, route planning, courier management, and invoicing tools for social and solidarity economy organizations. Cooperatives and associations can customize the platform using the Customized Application module, and access a native mobile app (in alpha testing). A Store Interface module provides a storefront for local businesses. The CoopCycle Federation surrounds the software with ecosystem services: mentoring and training, CoopCycle Academy (an ERASMUS+ training program), client referral networks, grant-seeking support, and community Slack access. The Coopyleft License (v1) governs the software, reserving commercial use to cooperatives and non-profits. The Couriers' House is a separate physical support initiative providing couriers with rest, healthcare, and administrative services in Paris and Bordeaux.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CoopCycle Delivery Platform An open-access, full-stack bike logistics platform for worker-owned delivery cooperatives, including order management, route planning, courier management, invoicing, and a storefront interface for local businesses. Built around self-management, solidarity, and technological frugality principles.
• CoopCycle Federation Membership A federation service offering onboarding, mentorship, training, technical support, business development assistance, and a ready-to-use hosting environment for member bike delivery cooperatives. Operates with one member one vote governance.
• Coopyleft License (v1) A reciprocity software license that guarantees study, execution, modification, and redistribution rights to all licensees while reserving commercial exercise of these rights exclusively to cooperatives, associations, and organizations meeting social and solidarity economy criteria.
• CoopCycle Academy An ERASMUS+ funded academic training program for young people in bike logistics cooperatives covering commercial activities, governance, strategy, marketing, communication, and human resources. Includes annual assemblies for intergenerational knowledge exchange.
• Mentoring and Training Services Federation-provided support services for cooperatives launching their own projects, including mentorship, training programs covering commercial activities, governance, strategy, marketing, communication, and human resources, and access to shared practices among network members.
• La Maison des Coursiers (The Couriers' House) A physical support and mutual aid center for platform delivery workers, located in Paris (opened 2021) and Bordeaux (opened 2023), with upcoming locations in Nantes and Lyon. Provides rest facilities, administrative support, healthcare access, professional integration assistance, and community organizing space for couriers.

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 1,700 couriers supported since the Maison des Coursiers opened
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Médecins du MondecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Maison des Coursiers partnered with Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) and academic researchers to conduct the 'Santé Course' study, producing an objective assessment of working conditions of platform couriers. This collaboration also established free healthcare consultations at the Maison des Coursiers.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Pedal Me: Pedal Me is a London-based cargo-bike delivery service for parcels, food, and people with a strong social/environmental mission. It is a direct functional peer using bicycles for urban delivery and competing for the same values-aligned customer base as CoopCycle member cooperatives.
• Cycloon: Cycloon is a Dutch bike messenger and cycle-logistics service operating in the Netherlands with a similar mission-driven positioning around sustainable urban delivery. It is comparable as a European bicycle courier services operator competing in adjacent EU cities.
• Cascade: Cascade is a worker-cooperative platform providing back-office tools and services to service cooperatives. CoopCycle references Cascade on its own FAQ as a peer project, and both build open-source cooperative-enterprise software.
• Stuart: Stuart is an urban same-day delivery platform with a strong bicycle-courier component operating across France, Spain, the UK, and other EU cities. It directly overlaps with CoopCycle on urban last-mile bike delivery services, though Stuart is a venture-backed for-profit.

Broad incumbents

• Onfleet: Onfleet is a venture-backed last-mile delivery management SaaS platform used globally by commercial operators. It competes with the CoopCycle platform at the software layer (routing, dispatch, courier management), but targets commercial clients rather than cooperatives.
• Deliveroo: Deliveroo is a major European restaurant and grocery delivery platform operating across the UK, France, and other EU markets. It competes with CoopCycle-aligned cooperative delivery on the restaurant/urban-logistics axis, albeit at vastly larger scale.
• Glovo: Glovo is one of Europe's largest multi-category urban delivery platforms, operating across 20+ countries including Spain and France where CoopCycle member cooperatives also operate. It is a broad incumbent alternative at the delivery-service layer that CoopCycle member cooperatives compete against.

Others

• Mobilizon: Mobilizon is a Framasoft-led decentralized social-events platform. CoopCycle lists it on its site as part of the broader solidarity-software movement — adjacent in philosophy (open-source social economy tooling) but not directly competitive.
• Framasoft: Framasoft is a French non-profit promoting free software and 'degooglized' internet tools. CoopCycle explicitly lists Framasoft on its own site as a peer solidarity-tech project, and both share the open-source/social-economy philosophy without directly competing on delivery.
• Open Food France: Open Food France is a solidarity-economy organization supporting short food supply chains. CoopCycle names it as a peer project on its site; both operate in alternative food/economy ecosystems where CoopCycle member cooperatives source deliveries.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/coopcycle
• GitHubgithub.com/coopcycle
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/coopcycle

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles19 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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