Spiri - Søren Halskov Nissen

The next project, the next thing is one of the most ambitious Danish startups currently. The pattern is that it's a lot of entrepreneurs coming together to build something greater than they could do individually. As I said, it's very ambitious. They've set out to change urban mobility, how we get around in the city. They're combining hardware and software. They're one of the first ones with a totally new car that's built for sharing as opposed to old cars repurposed with a computer in it. The guy is just on a six-month stretch to get all this to come together. So we're very happy to have him tonight here. Please welcome Søren Heltsko Nissen from Spiri. Thanks for the opportunity here. So I'm the founder and CEO of Spiri. I'm the CEO of the driver, which is roughly around five and a half years ago. Uber, MyTaxi, Halo, ClickerTaxi, which is now Driver, launched more or less within the vicinity of six months. That's very close. So none of us really knew about each other. Uber raised a ton of cash, so we've sort of had to pivot and pivot and pivot to actually try and figure out how to earn money. And so in the end, we're sitting with the driver platform. We're sitting with the driver platform, which is this golden nugget of basically Uber in a box that we want taxi companies to use. And they say they want to change, and we suddenly realize that they say it, but they can't. So I'm in a position where I'm trying to peddle software as a service to an industry that's dying within 10 years. That sort of sucks. So that's actually how the idea started coming ahead with Spiri. Like, can we actually use this platform? different. If we take a look at some of the issues we have in the cities right now, how many of you have their own car and drive to work every day? Almost no one. Public transport? So a ton. And then bikes. Ooh, that's nice. So. Although there are a ton of good people here in the crowd. Fact. The fact is that congestion in the cities is on the rise. It's actually not going down, so public transport must be doing something wrong. So, township is this idea that we all have our own car, and that's essentially the reason why everything's clogging up on the roads. The clicker doesn't work. There. It's also the primary reason why we have a ton of CO2 in the air coming from the cars. Do you have something with more battery? There, so, as I said, congestion is on the rise, and on average, there is 1.45 persons in the city. So, it's not like one and two seats. It's like one, one, one, one idiot, and then a family of four, and then one idiot. And they're all looking for it in the back of the person sitting in front of them. So, as you can realize, this is creating a lot of issues in the cities, and at the same time, I'm pretty sure that everyone here has tried to find parking in Copenhagen in rush hour, which is also horrible. It's horrible, more or less, in every city. So you have 30 or sort of, let's say, 95% of the next bus今天 bui vivre Anybody major city with and at the same time, we have, especially in Denmark, where we care about public transp or, biking and everything Cristina and everything. We have this idea also in Copenhagen that we need to protect our public transport, and so my question is if public transport is so great, why don't people use it? Why the majority of all transactions in Copenhagen still happen with cars. It's not bikes, it's not public transport, it's cars. And so to me that says we've been doing it wrong for a long time. Basically, public transport is trying to treat all of us like cattle, shoving us into these lines that never really fits where we're going. And so here enters Speary, which is essentially, basically we're trying to hit public transport prices, so public transport prices and self-driving prices already many years before Google actually puts a self-driving vehicle on the road and it's mass adopted. So here is a small introduction to how it works. We believe that transport around the city should be better than what public transportation and taxis offer. With Speary, just tap a button to carpool in an electric vehicle custom built for urban transport. Drive the Speary for free and share it with passengers who are going in the same direction. Or be a passenger at the price of a bus ticket. Speary is about the people. It's a community that together makes moving around your city incredibly affordable. Get safe. Get early access. Request an invite on Speary.io. So, as the video says, essentially we're going to combine what some of you know as UberPool or ride sharing with on-demand ride hailing. So, the idea is basically you take a bespoke vehicle that's not built for car ownership. It's not built to make your ego great and feel good. It's not shiny. It's not classy. It's not a Tesla Model 3 with 3,500 components and a ton of stuff and bling bling. You don't need essentially like the small triangle covering the bolt on the B pillar like where your seat belt anchor point is. How much value does that actually create in getting people safely and conveniently and cheap from A to B in cities? Absolutely zero. It actually just adds complexity to the production line to you need a procurement assistant. More. You need a supply chain assistant. More. Speary is about simplicity. It's about cutting costs wherever you can. It's about bringing a vehicle from 3,500 components to 700 components. It's about going back to the 4T. You can get it in any color you want as long as it's black. The entire point is we don't develop a vehicle for ownership or for consumers who want to feel good about themselves. We're developing for the future of sharing. Shared self-driving on-demand micro buses. So this is just the first evolution of the vehicle. We're already in process with building our own autonomous driving platform. First vehicle you will be able to order end of 17 as a test. I mean that's our milestone. The entire business model works by imagine Copenhagen. We have these super cheap efficient electric vehicles. We put them on the road. And then you can drive them as much as you want. You can always go down, pick them up, drive from A to B, and if someone else wants to be a passenger, they can ride hail that. And if our ride sharing algorithms deem that the detour the driver and the passenger have to do are acceptable, you have to pick that person up or drop them off. If no one is going your direction, you get free transport anyways. So some of you will say who the hell would do that? Well, my argument would be the 40% in the city that every month actually have a hard time paying their rent. If they can save 100 euros a month on transportation by spending five minutes extra every morning and afternoon on their commute, my bet is they will. So this here, you can see it out there. This is what we call a lap on wheels. It's not going to look like that. It's going to look more like a four wheel traditional. I mean, it's going to be a head turn. But consider it like a microbus. This here was to test our drive train. So we have a massive battery pack and to test a lot of technologies that would normally only go into McLaren cars. Because we do it radically different, we can actually use this technology in a low cost car. So I hope you'll check it out. It's just the first prototype. It's going to look completely different. We will reveal the actual final model in 17. Thank you.