€1.8 million raised: the crowdfunding is successful! 🏁

It's over: with nearly 1,000 investors, €1.8 million has been raised. We actually still can't quite believe it.

When we launched the crowdfunding in March, that large sum with all those zeros still felt so far away. Now, here we stand with 954 people who say: we believe in this, and we want to be part of what you are building.

How it started

We hadn't actually planned to run a crowdfunding campaign right now. In November we discovered a manufacturing fault in our entire batch. We were well ahead of schedule, and then it all came crashing down for a moment. Tommi was born out of that crisis: a cute product, but also an expensive lesson.

So two months ago we sat down together: what now? Crowdfunding felt like the best option straight away. A way to build Ziemi together with the people who helped us through the Tommi situation.

It got intense

To be honest: the past few weeks have been tough. A public investment round with a hard deadline, and everyone watching.

Our partners gave it everything. So did our community. And in the end we made it through. Stronger, more resilient, and more fired up than ever.

What moved us most

Almost everyone who invested said the same thing: "I'm doing this because I believe in you. Because cycling safety needs to be better. And because I think you can make the difference." That gets to you in a way that's hard to put into words.

And now, onwards!

We came through by the skin of our teeth, and with this funding we can develop new products, grow our team and scale up our stock properly.

For now a moment to breathe, a moment to land. But after that we're going full speed ahead again. Because everything so far was only phase 1 of Ziemi: what's coming will be far bigger. 🚲💡