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Investors have fallen out of love with Ola’s ride-hailing business. But its founder’s reluctance to let go and a host of internal troubles are stopping them from breaking up
With Maruti Suzuki’s board giving the automaker the go-ahead to enter advanced air mobility last week, the race to rule the skies is heating up
India’s first unicorn of 2025 spent 10 years making roads safer for truckers—only to find itself moving towards a future where trucks don’t need drivers
Limited options, absent subsidies, and the persisting lack of charging infrastructure are some of the reasons
The EV ride-hailing startup has grown its business thanks to cars leased from Gensol Engineering. But the weight of the ties may be too much to bear
After not going the whole hog with the UPI app BHIM—Juspay doesn’t want to lose an opportunity in mobility
But that doesn’t make the ride-hailing startup immune to the problems that have plagued its rivals
While some internet companies brush off the global study on ideal working conditions for gig workers, others cleverly spin it to boost their PR game
The bike-taxi startup is way ahead of rivals Uber and Ola in market share, but maintaining its lead could be challenging if it stays reckless with customer safety
The auto major emerges as a dominant player in the taxi industry’s shift to EVs, offering the sole EV sedan—Xpres-T—and leaving ride-hailers eager to hop on board
Seven-year-old Everest Fleet rode the pandemic to become Uber’s biggest cab supplier
The zero-commission app by Softbank-backed Juspay is already onboarded by India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC). But even with all the king’s horses and all the king's men, Namma Yatri is nowhere close to conquering the Ola-Uber wall
While ride-hailing giants Uber and Ola failed to become profitable through rapid and massive expansion, four-year-old Blusmart is hoping to do so by doing just the opposite: running a tight ship in metro cities
One of the fastest Indian startups to enter the unicorn club, blue collar job portal Apna has an ambitious vision. All at once, it wants to be a social network, a classroom, and a job portal. In trying to be a jack of all trades, though, it could become a master of none
Barely two years into its operations, EV fleet startup BluSmart is making all the right noises. A $13 million top-up from BP Ventures—a first in India—and the interest of two industry leaders in competition, Tata and Jio-BP, have catapulted BluSmart’s controlled EV experiment from the margins to mainstream
Grab’s record SPAC deal is key not only to its future, but also for other companies in Southeast Asia that seek to follow in its footsteps. The pressure is on Grab to perform
Once seen as dusty, hot, uncomfortable alternatives to cabs, auto-rickshaws have made a proper comeback in India. After all, who wants a closed AC car in a pandemic? Ride-hailing companies are now rushing to capture the auto market, but they all have very different advantages
Already a feature of the US investment scene, Southeast Asian alumni networks are now banding together to offer ‘smart’ capital to fledgeling startups. And the trailblazer is, ironically, Uber, which exited the region in 2018
India’s largest all-electric cab fleet operator has seen two leadership changes and an exodus of top executives in 2020, even as it attempts to weather the pandemic
The Hong Kong-based on-demand delivery unicorn’s asset-light model, à la Uber, and dual versions (Chinese and international) à la ByteDance, have helped it scale globally. But the growing anti-China sentiment worldwide could be its Kryptonite
With 96% of its 33,000 leased-out cabs gathering dust in parking lots, Covid-19 has battered Ola Cabs’ dream of building a supply side to its on-demand ride-hailing business
Ola wants to go from 40 to 100 cloud kitchens this year, and from 100 to 600-700 within five years. The pandemic has put cloud kitchens on a level playing field with restaurants, but how far can Ola go dependent on Swiggy-Zomato's fleet, with Rebel Foods breathing down its back
Carpooling is off limits in the time of social distancing. The two ride-hailing giants have to now rethink the loss-making service in a post-Covid world fraught with taboos and tightened purse strings
Hire from small- and medium-scale bus operators and offer standardised services—that’s the model IntrCity has been working with. But not too many are impressed
The Indian government is pushing plug-in charging technology when the sector is moving towards battery-swapping. A new set of players are interested in the charging station business, but lack of consistent standards and tariff troubles are adding to their pile of problems
The too-soonicorn Ola Electric Mobility has an over-the-top ambitious plan to rule the shared and electric mobility ecosystem. Vehicle to platform, Ola Electric’s chosen a closed system of experiments, unlike SUN Mobility, which went the partnership way
Uber Eats India's fickle, deal-seeking customer base and heavily loss-making operations weren't enough to deter Zomato from an acquisition. Here's why
After years of shying away from regulating online marketplaces, the Competition Commission of India will finally take up a case brought against both India’s largest online travel agent and budget hotel aggregator. The outcome of its probe into the two could reverberate through other sectors as well
The intercity cab segment is not for everyone. And Ola-Uber are painfully aware of this. With Savaari’s experience and newfound profitability, SoftBank’s interest can’t be too far behind
If you thought Uber’s exit from SE Asia marked the end of the region’s ride-hailing battle, think again. Post-Uber, Grab and Go-Jek are locked in a battle that has parallels with the way Tencent and Alibaba dominate China’s tech scene
India’s largest bike-taxi business Rapido wants to do 1 million rides a day in 2019. Except their business isn’t completely legal yet
SoftBank and OYO are joined at the hip, with one entity’s fortunes closely intertwined with the other’s but not in ways that you might be thinking
As Slack goes from a tiny speck to a public listing, it could well be the most important IPO of our time
Uber is going public today. Lyft, in the US, already has. Amid newly-minted millionaires, what of cities that have gone poorer on the liveability index? Finally, there is cold, hard evidence. Ride-sharing has only made cities more congested, slowed down traffic. Indian cities aren’t faring any better
On the face of it, not calling India a priority market may feel like an admission of defeat. No, it is not. India’s diminishing importance in Uber’s scheme of things is an admission of sanity prevailing over haemorrhaging cash-burn
The Bengaluru-based startup is betting it can go from cab aggregator to “mobility” company—its latest play is to go all out on electric vehicles. Just like other taxi startups around the world. Uber, Grab, Didi Chuxing, you name it. And for good reason
Paytm has launched a subscription-based loyalty programme to hold on to its users, but there’s a lot that just doesn’t add up
Virag Gupta and others have spent years crusading against what they see as a lack of regulation when it comes to online businesses operating in India—an arena of policy that's seeing legal battles rapidly flare up
Could Blockchain be the solution to ride-sharing in developing countries? Drivezy thought it might
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