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Bolt Financial, the finops company, not Bolt the car sharing service which seems to be doing fine:

> In January 2022, Bolt raised €628 million from investors led by Sequoia Capital and Fidelity Management and Research Co, taking the company's valuation to €7.4 billion

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This comment should be upvoted. I suspect many people in the thread, like myself, read the whole thing thinking it's about the ride-sharing company. That would be bolt.eu, not .com.

I wasn't familiar with either and thought of the Chevy Bolt.

Small note on the Bolt that's doing fine, I suspect a big part of why they're doing fine is that they're doing a lot more than just car sharing. Last I checked, they offer car sharing (car rentals), taxi service (think Uber), food delivery, scooter rental, and I'm sure there's other things in their basket. In many markets their taxi drivers do food delivery during slow hours, cars are moved into the rental part of the business when the taxi business doesn't need as many of them etc. It's a surprisingly well run business for a startup, honestly.

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