Kangaroo is a fleet of shared electric pogo sticks for the modern city. Dockless, app-unlocked, and motor-assisted — the most thermodynamically efficient way to move through a dense urban core. Up.
Scooters, bikes, and mopeds share one fundamental constraint: they all move horizontally. As urban cores densify, the next surface area for mobility isn't sideways. It's up.
of urban trips are under two miles — yet congestion has worsened every year since 2019.
spent annually on micromobility R&D — nearly all of it on the same two-wheel form factor.
incumbents serving the vertical-displacement category. We are creating it.
Three steps. One axis.
Find a Kangaroo on the map, scan the QR code, and the magnetic helmet releases. NFC handoff lets you pass it to a friend mid-trip.
A 250 W brushless drive in the lower piston amplifies every hop by up to 220%. Powered descent damping keeps the landing soft.
End your trip anywhere it's legal to stand. Dockless by default, with in-lobby docking at partner buildings. Pay per hop.
Vertically integrated. Obviously.
A 250 W brushless drive amplifies hop height by up to 220% and damps the descent on the way down.
QR scan to unlock in under a second. Hand off mid-ride to another rider over NFC — no re-docking required.
Sub-meter localization with a load cell, gyro, and inertial unit streaming real-time hop telemetry to the cloud.
Docks magnetically to the handlebar and is UV-sanitized between every ride. Because we are, fundamentally, serious people.
The average commuter burns 1,800 kcal a day walking. Pogo dynamics redirect that downward force into elastic potential, then amplify it electrically. It is, by our math, the most efficient mode of human-scale transport ever shipped.
“The scooter was the iPhone moment of micromobility. The pogo stick is the smartphone.” — Internal memo, Kangaroo founding team
Per-hop. Boost as a premium tier.
Passive spring response, no motor assist. Ideal for short hops on level terrain and the merely curious.
Motor-assisted hop amplification up to 180%, with powered descent damping included as standard.
Full 220% amplification, dynamic lean compensation, and priority queue. Cleared for stair traversal.
Dynamic per-hop pricing varies by demand, terrain grade, and altitude gained. Contribution margin reaches $0.21/hop at scale. We checked.
We seed density first — 300 units inside 1.2 square miles. Network effects kick in at roughly four units per block. Six letters of intent signed, more in the pipeline.
Request your city →Yes, we thought about it.
The same motor that amplifies your hop actively cushions the landing, capping peak ground-reaction force on every cycle.
On-board cameras detect pedestrians and curbs in real time, auto-throttling Boost in crowded zones. Shipping in V3.
A helmet docks to every Kangaroo and is UV-sanitized between rides. Riding without it is, candidly, not recommended.
Real riders. Real altitude.
“My commute used to be 22 minutes of sitting in traffic. Now it's 19 minutes of cardio and mild public spectacle. Net positive.”
“Boost Pro cleared me up a full flight of brownstone steps with groceries. I have not used my building's elevator since. I am not exaggerating.”
“I was skeptical. Then I hit 1.4 meters of assisted air over a puddle and felt, for the first time in years, genuinely optimistic about cities.”
It is a real, motor-assisted, network-connected pogo platform. Whether the world needs a shared electric pogo stick is a separate and, we'd argue, less interesting question. The hardware is real. The hops are real. The Series A is real.
Yes. A UV-sanitized smart helmet docks magnetically to every Kangaroo and releases when you unlock. Given that the product's core function is propelling you 1.4 meters into the air, we consider this non-negotiable.
Powered descent damping caps peak landing force on every hop, and Boost auto-throttles when the IMU detects instability. That said, gravity remains undefeated and is explicitly out of scope for our V3 roadmap.
Dynamically, based on demand, terrain grade, and altitude gained. You pay a base fare to unlock and a per-hop rate that scales with your selected Boost tier. Full pricing is in the app before you commit a single hop.
On Boost Pro, yes — it's cleared for stair traversal with dynamic lean compensation. On Standard and Boost, stairs are technically possible but officially discouraged, much like most things that are technically possible.
We are. Hardware, field ops, computer vision, and one very specific role for someone who can underwrite pogo-stick insurance. If that sentence excited you, email team@go-kangaroo.com.
Join the waitlist and we'll notify you the moment Kangaroo lands in your city. No spam, no horizontal mobility, no exceptions.
Backed by conviction and several term sheets we can't discuss yet.