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Bird, the Electric Scooter Startup, Is Said to Draw an Investment Frenzy

Travis VanderZanden, the founder of Bird, with one of the startup’s electric scooters in Santa Monica, Calif., Feb. 14, 2018. Bird is reportedly raising $300 million in new funding that would value the company at $2 billion — financing that would cap one of the fastest and largest start-up fund-raising frenzies in recent memory. (Coley Brown/The New York Times)