Deb Gangopadhyay co-founded Beam Mobility in 2018 with Alan Jiang. The two had been classmates at Yale. Gangopadhyay was chief technology officer and later president. Before Beam he founded Push Nova and was its chief technology officer.
Beam is a Singapore-based shared electric scooter operator. Jiang's years at Uber had shown that about 40% of trips were shorter than 3 km, which made a small scooter a natural fit.
The company launched in 2018 with a $6.4 million seed round. In 2020 it raised a $26 million Series A and earned Climate Neutral certification. In 2022 it raised a $93 million Series B and operated in 35 cities.
In July 2025 Beam agreed to merge with Neuron Mobility.