A kid's bike used to be a grown-up's bike, shrunk

For generations, the industry made children's bikes the same way. Take an adult frame, scale it down, add a coaster brake, paint it. Nobody asked how much a five-year-old weighs. A cheap 16-inch bike weighs 20 lbs. The child riding it weighs 38. Parents told us what that feels like before we ever sold a bike.

A child who gives up on a bike at five rarely comes back to it at seven. That was the gap we saw. Not a gap in the market. A gap in what a four-year-old is allowed to do.

So we built a bike where everything is for the kid

We started from the child and worked outward. The Biky Air 14 weighs 10.9 lbs, the lightest 14-inch kids' bike on the market. The frame is low so a child gets on and off without thinking. The brake levers are sized for a hand that cannot yet reach an adult lever. No coaster brake, because a child learns to stop with hands, the way they will stop for the rest of their life. A steering limiter in the stem so the bars cannot jackknife on the first wobble. A fully enclosed drivetrain so a shoelace never meets a chain. A seat clamp with a window so a parent can see it is locked.

We sell direct. We skip retail. Instead of paying a 30%+ retailer margin, we invest it directly into better bike quality, performance, and premium components. Born in California, sold from Orange County to families in 35 states. Then we stopped talking and let the parents tell the rest.

What happened next, in their words

That is what 4.9 out of 5 on Trustpilot looks like from the inside, and there are more than 350 five-star reviews like these across our channels, from families in 35 states. U.S. experts rated the Biky "Best Overall" kids' bike. Every quote above is about the Biky Air line, the bikes shipping today. Biky Smart is currently in development and has not been sold yet.

The numbers behind the reviews

1. $900K+ in revenue since launch
2. 3x+ revenue growth: Q2 2026 $225K vs. Q2 2025 $70K
3. Revenue targets: $1.2M+ in 2026 and $3M+ in 2027
4. 2,500+ bikes sold across 35 states
5. ~$430 average order. ~$77 Meta customer acquisition cost in June 2026. Site conversion up from 0.6% in 2024 to 1.0% in Q2 2026
6. Rated "Best Overall" kids' bike by U.S. experts

Kids outgrow bikes every couple of years. In most categories, that is when you lose the customer. For us, it is when the family comes back for the next size.

Returning customers account for 26.8% of revenue. 10.3% of families have bought two or more bikes.

Then we looked at when the riding stops

Children spend less time outdoors than generations before them. Screens are replacing the backyard, the park, and the ride around the neighborhood. And when a kid does ride, it is often the hour after school — the hour that starts getting dark early in October and stays that way through winter.

53% of U.S. cyclist deaths happen in the dark. That is NHTSA's figure for 2023, riders of every age. The data made us look more closely at something parents rarely ask about directly: visibility.

Parents did not write to us about this. They write about weight, about brakes, about a chain. We went looking for what they were not asking for and found a problem worth solving. Then we looked at the shelf. Not one kid's bike we compete with ships with integrated lighting.

Every answer on the market was boring

The category has had one answer for twenty years: a clip-on light. Buy it separately. Charge it. Remember it. Find it after it falls off in the driveway. Hope the kid switches it on.

A light a child has to remember can easily be off on the one evening it matters most. Safety shouldn't depend on another accessory, another charger, another thing to remember. So we did with light what we had done with weight. We designed it into the bike, where nobody has to remember it and nobody can lose it.

Biky Smart. Light built into the bike

Biky Smart is a new line of kids' bikes, from the 12-inch balance bike to the 24-inch, built around integrated light from the start. A child can grow through the entire Smart line without leaving built-in visibility behind. The prototype in these photographs is the 16-inch.

LightCore™ Safety System

Seven light sources. 360° visibility. One integrated safety system. LightCore™ uses seven strategically positioned light sources to make the bicycle visible from the front, rear, and sides. Instead of treating lighting as an accessory, Biky integrates visibility directly into the bicycle's design — with lights in the grips, fork, front, and rear working together as one system.

1. Visible From Every Direction. Strategically positioned lights help drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians notice the bicycle from multiple angles.
2. Safety That Can't Be Forgotten. LightCore™ is built into the bicycle, so visibility does not depend on separate clip-on accessories.
3. Confidence After Sunset. 360° visibility gives parents greater peace of mind during early-morning, evening, and low-light rides.
4. Designed as One System. Seven light sources, hidden wiring, and a battery integrated into the frame work together as one system.

There is no switch a child has to remember. A sensor detects fading daylight and turns LightCore™ on automatically. The battery lives inside the frame, charges via USB-C, and runs for up to 9.5 hours.

Uniframe™

Uniframe™ isn't different just to look different. Every line is designed to give children more confidence, and parents more peace of mind.

1. Confidence by Design. A low, child-focused frame makes getting on, stopping, and staying in control feel natural.
2. Safety, Built In. Integrated lighting, protected components, child-sized controls, and GPS are designed into the bike from the start.
3. A Bike Kids Want to Ride. The unmistakable inverted fork and futuristic silhouette turn a first bike into something children are proud to call their own.

The inverted fork and low frame make room for the battery, hidden wiring, and seven light sources while still letting a five-year-old get on and off without thinking about it.

MagicColors™

One twist of the ring on the grip changes the color of the light. Six colors. That sounds like a toy feature. It is, and that is the point. A safety feature a child ignores does nothing. A child who picks a color has decided the lights are theirs. The safest light on a kid's bike is the one the kid wants on.

The safety you never see working

Everything the Air taught us stayed. Fully enclosed drivetrain. Steering limiter. SafeLock™ seat clamp. V-brakes front and rear, with levers sized for a child's hand. All of it, including the battery and all seven light sources, weighs just 12.5 lbs on the 16-inch prototype. A child can lift it over their head.

For kids: confidence and visibility. For parents: awareness and peace of mind.

Two patents pending

Anyone can bolt a lamp to a frame. Redesigning the frame around the light is a different job, and it is the job we filed for.

1. Uniframe™. The frame itself: the low, child-focused geometry, the inverted fork, the way the battery, wiring, and light sources sit inside the structure instead of on it. Patent pending.
2. LightCore™. The light system: seven sources positioned for 360° visibility, switching on automatically, powered by the battery integrated into the frame. Patent pending.

For kids: confidence, control, and independence. For parents: visibility, security, and peace of mind.

Ten juries saw it before a single bike shipped

Biky Smart has won 10 international design and innovation awards, including Red Dot, iF Design Award, New York Product Design Awards, German Innovation Award, IDA, and Core77 Design Awards.

These are the juries premium hardware brands enter. None of them were judging a bike anyone could buy yet. People who see hundreds of products a year, with no stake in ours, recognized Biky for its design and innovation before a single Smart bike shipped.

Why a bigger brand can't just add lights, and what the shelf is worth

Woom built a €149M business in 2025, selling 390,000 premium bikes for kids and teens and growing revenue 27% year over year. Biky Smart is being built around something fundamentally different: integrated 360° lighting, GPS location, and a connected Parent App — all designed into the bike from the start.

The U.S. kids' bicycle market was worth more than $3.9B in 2025. Globally, the market was estimated at $12.6B in 2025 and is projected to reach approximately $24.5B by 2032.

Biky Smart brings a new standard for kids’ bikes

We compete in the same premium kids’ bike category as woom, Prevelo, and other leading brands — at a price parents already pay for a premium kids’ bike.

Biky Smart is being built differently from the start: a lightweight, child-focused bike with integrated 360° lighting, a rechargeable battery, GPS tracking, and a Parent App — all designed into the bike rather than added later as accessories.

Below is a comparison of 16-inch models, based on manufacturers’ published specifications.

1. Premium components & lightweight design. Biky Smart, woom, and Prevelo are all built around lightweight, child-focused performance.
2. Automatic 360° lighting. Seven integrated light sources across the front, sides, and rear, switching on automatically as daylight fades.
3. Integrated battery. Built into the bike, USB-C rechargeable, with up to 9.5 hours of runtime.
4. Child-safe drivetrain. Fully enclosed on Biky Smart; chain guards or other configurations vary across competing models.
5. GPS tracking. Built into the Biky Smart platform.
6. Parent App. Location, safe zones, alerts, ride history, and other connected features planned for the 2027 launch.
7. Premium price range. Biky Smart 16 is planned at $549 MSRP*, compared with $499 for woom GO 3 and $509 for Prevelo Alpha Two.

*Planned retail price. Subject to change.

Matching this means redesigning a frame around a battery and wiring while keeping the weight low enough for a child to lift, and then certifying electronics in a children's product. That takes time. For us, it meant building an entirely new product and filing two patent applications.

And while competitors catch up, the families who already chose Biky keep coming back for the next size.

Biky Smart is more than a bike with lights

Biky Smart is being built as a connected kids’ bike with seven integrated light sources, a built-in battery and GPS, and a Parent App that gives families a new level of awareness around every ride.

Parents will be able to see where the bike is, receive location and safe-zone alerts, follow ride distance and history, and share milestones with family and friends.

The lighting, battery, GPS, wiring, and connectivity are designed into the bike from the start — not added later as accessories.

That is what we are building, and what this round helps bring to production.

Beyond the technology is the reason we started. A child who rides is a child outdoors. Every hour on a Biky is an hour away from a screen. We believe technology can give kids more freedom to explore — and parents more confidence to let them go.

The people behind it

Danil Kontsevoy, co-founder and CEO. Former Nike and Disney executive. Leads finance, growth, operations, and investor relations.

Stanislav Reginsky, co-founder, Vision & Product. Leads product development from concept through production. Previously co-led two startups in kids' products and mobility.

Olga Barabanova, co-founder, Partnerships & Impact. Leads partnerships and fundraising. Co-founded two ventures with Stanislav focused on children's wellbeing and mobility. Recognized by Forbes.

Guliya Nizamieva, Marketing & Social Media. Formerly at Dentsu, where she led digital marketing for Toyota and Lexus.

Early believers. Sputnik ATX venture fund, a senior NVIDIA executive, and a former P&G executive have invested in Biky.

The honest part

Biky was built while our founding families were rebuilding their own lives.

Four years ago, we were forced to leave the lives we knew and start again in the United States. The transition was hard for us and especially for our children — new schools, a new language, new routines, new careers, and for us, an entirely new market.

We are deeply grateful to the communities that welcomed us here: our children’s schools, friends, neighbors, and the families who became our first customers. They bought our bikes, wrote reviews, shared feedback, recommended us to friends, and came back for the next size. Advisors, partners, and investors joined along the way.

That support, combined with the experience we brought with us, helped us build a new U.S. consumer brand in less than two years.

But gratitude and momentum do not remove the realities of building a hardware company. Here are four things we think about every day.

1. We are still building brand awareness. woom and Guardian are names more parents already know. Biky is earlier in that journey, but our unit economics are already positive and our Meta customer acquisition cost was $77 in June 2026. As awareness, referrals, organic traffic, and repeat purchases grow, we expect acquisition efficiency to improve — although CAC can fluctuate as we scale.
2. Growth needs working capital. We have a $500K PICC-backed supplier credit facility with 90-day payment terms, which helps us finance inventory before it is sold. But that alone is not enough to support our $3M revenue plan, grow inventory, and bring Biky Smart into production and to market. That is why we launched this round.
3. Hardware takes time. Tooling, testing, and certification of children’s electronics take time. Biky Smart is still in development and has not been sold yet. We would rather build it correctly than rush it to market.
4. We ship boxed. Parents assemble the bike at home. The few complaints in our public reviews are mostly about shipping damage and assembly. We answer those ourselves — on a Sunday if that is when they come.

What we are asking, and who goes first

We are raising $1,000,000 to fund the next stage of Biky’s growth, including inventory, Biky Smart development, and bringing the new product line to market. $350,000 is already committed by a venture fund and two experienced operators investing personally.

Back Biky early. Get a 20% lower valuation cap.

The first $200K invested through Wefunder qualifies for an $8M valuation cap—20% below our standard $10M cap. Early Bird allocation is first come, first served.

Investments start at $500.

1. $500+ · Biky Smart Priority Access. Priority access to the first Biky Smart production run.
2. $2,500+ · Biky Air Gift. Receive one complimentary Biky Air bicycle of your choice, up to $779 retail value.
3. $5,000+ · Biky Air Family Gift. Receive two complimentary Biky Air bicycles of your choice, up to $1,558 total retail value.
4. $25,000+ · Leave Your Mark on Biky. Name a Biky innovation after your child, yourself, or someone special to you. One of our proprietary technologies or signature features will carry your chosen name. We’ll apply for trademark registration. Your family’s story, built into ours. Limited to 6 investors. One naming opportunity per technology. *

*Name and technology subject to mutual approval, trademark availability, and commercial launch.

Perks are our thank-you. They are separate from the investment itself, and any perk tied to Biky Smart depends on Biky Smart reaching production.

Kids can

Most of the world tells kids to wait. A 20-pound bike says it. A training wheel says it. A hand on the saddle says it. So does "be home before dark," and so does "wait for me at the corner." None of it is said unkindly. All of it is the same message, and a child hears it every day: not yet.

We disagree, and we build the proof. We changed nothing about the kids. We changed everything around them. A bike built to a child's weight, so the hand comes off the saddle. A light the bike remembers, so October does not end the ride early. A parent who knows where the bike is, so the corner stops being the border. A next size waiting when the child grows. Piece by piece, what a four-year-old is allowed to do gets bigger. That is the world Biky is building. The bike was the first piece. It will not be the last.

Parents describe life in that world better than we can. "Now she wants to go everywhere with her new bike," a parent in New York wrote. She rides to school every day. He rides alongside his big sister. She hits the big hills in the neighborhood. Everywhere is the point.

Biky exists so that children grow up knowing they can, not because someone told them, but because they proved it themselves.

An investment here has one job beyond the numbers: to take the next "not yet" out of a child's life. This time it is the dark. Ten juries have already seen the bike that does it. This round is how it goes from a prototype they admired to a bike a child rides home at dusk. Parents of Biky riders go first because they have already watched a "not yet" disappear in their own driveway. If you have not, the reviews above show what it looks like. Either way, this is what you are backing: a company, and a world where a child hears "you can" more often than "not yet."

Kids can ride to school. Kids can keep up with a big sister. Kids can be seen at dusk.

Kids can.

Questions we get asked

Isn't this just a bike with lights on it?

No. Biky Smart is being built as a connected kids' bike with seven integrated light sources, automatic lighting, a battery built into the frame, GPS, and a Parent App. LightCore™ provides 360° visibility from the front, sides, and rear and runs for up to 9.5 hours on a charge.

Why should I buy a Biky instead of another premium kids' bike, and what stops other brands from copying you?

Parents answer the first half in the reviews above. On the second: adding a lamp is easy. Redesigning a lightweight children's bike around a battery, wiring, seven light sources, GPS, and connectivity is a much bigger engineering job. We have two patent applications pending around the frame architecture and integrated lighting system.

When does Biky Smart launch?

Our plan is to launch Biky Smart in 2027 with integrated lighting, GPS, and the Biky Parent App. Tooling, testing, electronics, and certification are underway, and this round helps us bring the product into production.

What will the Parent App do?

Parents will be able to see where the bike is, receive location and safe-zone alerts, follow ride distance and history, and track their child's riding milestones. Over time, we plan to build additional features around outdoor activity, challenges, and family engagement.

What happens to the Biky Air line?

The Biky Air keeps selling. It is our proven lightweight product line and the revenue engine of the company today. Returning customers already account for 26.8% of revenue as children grow into their next Biky.

Who else is already backing Biky?

$350K is already committed by a venture fund and two experienced operators investing personally. We also have advisors and supporters from the cycling, consumer, technology, and kids' product industries.

How much can I invest?

Investments start at $500. Biky families receive early access before the public launch, with additional perks beginning at $2,500.

What is the long-term plan?

Scale Biky Air line, launch Biky Smart in 2027, and build Biky into the category-defining brand in kids' mobility — combining design, safety, technology, and outdoor adventure.

Is it safe? What certifications apply?

The Biky Air line is already sold in the U.S. under applicable children's bicycle requirements. Biky Smart will complete the required testing and certification for its electronics before it is sold.

Where are the bikes made?

Designed in California and manufactured with our production partners in Asia. Bikes are shipped from Orange County, California, and arrive boxed for final assembly by the family.