#48 Alessio Treglia , CEO & Founder, Elerent

Alessio Treglia is the CEO and founder of Elerent, a shared mobility franchising operating in 60 countries around Southern Europe. By sharing their know-how and promoting the values of sustainability and safety, Elerent enables business owners to become franchisees and bring multimodal sharing mobility in their cities. In this way, mobility services are managed directly by local actors, who are in touch with the municipality, know city initiatives and hot points, and can manage operations faster and more directly. The ideal franchisee manages different businesses in the area, such as restaurants, hotels or other services, so it’s easy to create partnerships, marketing initiatives and offer discounts to riders. Elerent is 90% a franchising, with little operations managed directly from the team. For now, Elerent has no venture capitalists, relying only on their own profitability and franchising partnerships.

Before embarking on his shared mobility journey, Alessio worked for different types of franchising in Italy and Spain, such as food and retail. Mobility was a new thing for him, but an indeed fascinating ground to apply his deep knowledge to create a franchising in the sharing mobility sector.

Between scooters and Alessio it was love at first sight – during a trip to Lisbon he realized the future of mobility was sustainable and shared.

After spotting kick scooters around Lisbon for the first time in 2019, Alessio Treglia decided to found Elerent, a mobility business run with the expertise of a franchise player. Together with Gunnar, Alessio further discusses the evolution of Elerent from his first idea and how the business today operates mainly as a mobility franchising, how multimodality is a lifesaver for keeping yourself afloat and what are the characteristics of their ideal franchisees.