Analysis

November 7, 2022

This startup ditched San Francisco for Lisbon: why?

Travel startup Bounce fled San Francisco in 2020 for the sunny shores of Lisbon. But what brought them here?


In 2019, things were pretty sweet for luggage storage platform Bounce.

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Bounce's rooftop workspace
Bounce's rooftop workspace
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A photograph of Bounce staff playing table football at night
Late night team bonding at Bounce
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A fisheye image of the Bounce team on a boat ride in Lisbon
A boat ride on the River Tagus
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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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