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Our new Bolt Driver Experience Centre is officially open in Baku! 🇦🇿 Built around the needs of our driver-partners, the new centre includes: 👉 445 m² of modern support space 👉 16 service desks 👉 Visitor parking 👉 A more comfortable and welcoming environment 🎬 Take a look inside👇 #BoltAzerbaijan

We asked Gayanjalie, Yashika, Hannalore, Olga and Tereza to finish a few sentences with their honest thoughts on working in tech. There's no one path into tech. No one type of person who belongs. And no, you don't have to be an engineer. Watch the full video: https://lnkd.in/edUfry9N #lifeatbolt #womenintech

Electric rides have arrived in South Africa! 🇿🇦 Bolt's EV category is now live in Cape Town, with a clear goal: 500 electric vehicles by the end of 2026. Johannesburg is next. Together with YugoRide, we're bringing cleaner rides to passengers and helping drivers benefit from lower running and maintenance costs. South Africa now joins more than 70 cities worldwide where Bolt offers electric rides, building on our work in Kenya and Nigeria. 📸 Take a look at some moments from the Cape Town launch.👇 #ElectricMobility #BoltSouthAfrica #SustainableTransport

💡 New tech blog alert: AI can build the prototype. But can it build the product? AI can now turn an idea into a clickable prototype in hours instead of weeks. But a polished demo can create the impression that a product is nearly finished, while the difficult work around architecture, security, testing, data handling, monitoring, and ownership has barely started. In our latest Bolt Tech Blog, Fedor Novikov takes a practical look at AI prototyping and the trade-offs behind that speed. A useful read for engineers, product managers, designers, and anyone who has ever seen an impressive demo and thought, “Great, so we are almost done?” Let’s find the answer in the full article: https://lnkd.in/e3g6N9_y

Bolt was recently recognised by the President of Estonia, the Commander of the Defence Forces, and the Secretary General of the Ministry of Defence for supporting national defence. The recognition is local, but the idea behind it applies everywhere: companies have a responsibility to support the resilience of the communities where their teams live and work. In Estonia, we are doing this in two ways. 1. Supporting our people When employees take part in mandatory military training, Bolt continues to pay their salaries in full. Active members of Estonia’s voluntary defence organisations can also take up to five fully paid days each year for training and related activities. 2. Making it easier for people to contribute Throughout June, part of the revenue from selected Bolt rides, Bolt Drive trips and scooter rentals is being donated to Estonia’s reservists’ fund, helping provide essential equipment and communication tools. Real impact starts with showing up for the communities we’re part of.

Markus Villig started Bolt at 19 with €5,000 and personally recruited the first 50 drivers in Tallinn. Today, Bolt serves 200M+ customers across 50+ countries. Markus joined Joe Wear on Founders and Builders podcast to talk about the choices that shaped Bolt's growth: why ride-hailing is built city by city, how Bolt tested demand in new markets even before building teams on the ground, what early expansion into Africa taught the team, and why autonomy may not be as simple as "more data wins." 💡 After 13 years building Bolt, his advice to other founders is simple: trust your instincts, especially when outside advice doesn't match your own read of the business. Watch the full conversation in the video 👇

Asunción joins the Sustainable Urban Transitions Lab 🚀 As urban transport systems change, data can help planning teams understand how mobility options connect, where gaps remain, and how transport networks can better support people. The Sustainable Urban Transitions Lab is already exploring these questions in Hannover, Seville, and Lisbon. Now, through the Bolt Urban Fund, we’re supporting its first study in South America, in partnership with ETH Zurich. The SUT Lab will analyse Asunción’s transport mix to identify ways to improve accessibility in underserved areas. The study will be carried out with the Municipality of Asunción and the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, bringing together research expertise and local knowledge. More on the project: https://lnkd.in/eZnVUaPS

When riding a scooter, two seconds might be all the time you have to glance at a screen. So when our Product Design team started working on the Bolt 7 display, they focused on one simple question: what does a rider actually need to know in those two seconds? The answer was clear navigation, simple parking guidance, and essential ride information that helps riders keep their attention on the road. To get it right, our researchers and designers tested prototypes with riders in Berlin, launched a trial fleet in Barcelona, and worked closely with hardware and engineering teams. Along the way, they simplified, combined, and removed features until only the most useful information remained. The result is a full-colour display built directly into the Bolt 7 handlebars. It helps riders follow directions, understand slow zones, and find valid parking without checking their phone during the ride. This is what product design at Bolt looks like: solving real-world challenges across software, hardware, research, and city environments for products used by more than 200 million customers worldwide. Read the full design story: https://lnkd.in/etJ-pzWF Explore open Product Design roles in Berlin, Tallinn, and beyond: https://lnkd.in/ehsVvikT #productdesign #lifeatbolt #wearehiring

⚡️ Meet Bolt's 2026 summer interns! More than 4,100 candidates applied this year, and 47 earned a place in the programme at our HQ in Tallinn, making this one of our most competitive internship intakes yet. Over the next 11 weeks, they'll work on real projects, solve real business challenges, and learn alongside experienced mentors across Bolt. We're excited to see what they'll build along the way. Welcome to Bolt. Enjoy the ride. 💚 📸 Take a look at the gallery from their first day with us 👇 #earlycareers #lifeatbolt

Hi, I'm Gianfranco and I've just joined Bolt as Chief of Staff for the CEO and Founder. I'm joining from Google Cloud, where I spent the past seven years in strategy and operations, most recently as Director Strategy and Operations and Chief of Staff to the President of Google Cloud EMEA. Before that, Samsung and McKinsey. I really believe in a future where personal cars are limited, spaces belong to people and transportation is efficient and safe. The industry is at an inflection point with autonomous driving and physical AI, and Bolt is the best positioned to drive this future as the European champion. That's why I'm here. In this role I'll be running Bolt's CEO Office and working closely with Bolt Founder and CEO Markus Villig to translate Bolt's strategic goals into measurable targets and make sure we deliver on them. As Markus put it: "What has always set us apart is execution" and that's exactly the work. I've lived and worked across Italy, the UK, South Korea and the US. Two passports ran out of pages along the way. When I'm not working, it's Mia (4 years old) or watching football (go Juventus!). Excited to get started. #lifeatbolt