{"id":5950,"date":"2012-10-11T09:57:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T07:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2019-05-03T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:23:25","slug":"zilok-auto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/10\/zilok-auto\/","title":{"rendered":"Zilok Auto snags \u20ac1.5M from Jaina &#038; the new Ecomobilit\u00e9 Ventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ouicar.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5977\" title=\"Zilok Auto Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" \/>ZIlok Auto<\/a> announced yesterday a new round of funding from Marc Simoncini&#8217;s Jaina Capital &amp;\u00a0Ecomobilit\u00e9 Ventures, a Joint Venture fund by SNCF, Total &amp; Orange. Zilok Auto is a peer-to-peer car rental service which hopes to help you monetize the 90% of the time you don&#8217;t use your car in order to subsidize the \u20ac6,000\/year that car-owners pay on average for their car. Originally a subdirector of Zilok.com, founder Marion Carrette separated the site this year, launching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ouicar.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZilokAuto.com<\/a>.<br \/>\nInvestors have been betting a lot on P2P marketplaces, recently: BlaBlaCar has seen success with their P2P ride-sharing marketplace, and so has ZilokAuto <a title=\"Paulin Dementhon on the future of P2P Car Sharing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/09\/27\/voitureli\/\">competitor VoitureLib, who recently raised \u20ac2 Million<\/a>. ZIlok Auto plans to have 10,000 cars available for rent by the end of 2012, &#8220;with the help of SNCF, Total &amp; Orange,&#8221; according to Carrette.<br \/>\nWith this round of funding, Zilok Auto will be able to deploy hardware in each car, allowing users to eventually rent a car without ever having to meet in person to exchange keys. This hardware approach has been pursued by Zilok Auto&#8217;s American competitors, while French competitor VoitureLib has opted to hold off on implementing hardware &#8211; find out more <a title=\"Paulin Dementhon on the future of P2P Car Sharing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/09\/27\/voitureli\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>Welcome\u00a0Ecomobilit\u00e9 Ventures!<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5978\" title=\"ecomobilite ventures_ ogo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ecomobilite_ventures_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"76\" \/>Zilok Auto is one of three investments announced by\u00a0Ecomobilit\u00e9 Ventures, the first three of many dedicated to sustainable mobility. The other two startups, EZ-Wheel (Norway) &amp; Move About(FR),\u00a0reflect an investment strategy that balances mobility products and services,\u00a0French and foreign companies, and start\u2010ups and more mature businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZIlok Auto announced yesterday a new round of funding from Marc Simoncini&#8217;s Jaina Capital &amp;\u00a0Ecomobilit\u00e9 Ventures, a Joint Venture fund by SNCF, Total &amp; Orange. Zilok Auto is a peer-to-peer car rental service which hopes to help you monetize the 90% of the time you don&#8217;t use your car in order to subsidize the \u20ac6,000\/year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":64785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[7945,8039,8044],"class_list":["post-5950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-finance","tag-drivy-en-2","tag-orange-en-2","tag-sncf-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}