Bolt, formerly Taxify has raised $67 million in growth funding for its global expansion plans according to a new report by TechCrunch. Bolt says the funding is part of a bigger round which is ongoing but brings the valuation of the company to over $1 billion, joining the unicorn club. ...
uMashesha is South Africa's first woman-owned taxi hailing app targeting at taking on Uber and other such apps with better commissions and more business for its driver partners from its delivery services. Launched two months ago by CEO Christine Mesolo, the Centurion based Cab Hailing start-up says it has invested more ...
Taxify has announced that Taxify XL is now available in Mombasa, just few days after the service was launched in Nairobi to cater to riders traveling in larger groups. Taxify XL will see each vehicle can accommodate 6 passengers and the firm says the product is doing exceptionally well in Nairobi. ...
Taxify has two new vehicle categories to fit Nairobi's everyday transportation needs dubbed as Taxify Go for its economy category and Taxify XL tailor-made for larger groups. Taxify Go is Taxify’s economy category suitable for your everyday quick fix with pocket friendly fares at : Base Fare : 75 Per km ...
China-backed Taxi hailing service Taxify has launched Taxify Boda in Kenya, just a few weeks after unveiling the service in Kampala, Uganda where the simplest mode of transport is majorly the motorcycle taxis also known as Boda bodas. The firm expects that the addition of motorcycle taxi hailing services will ...
UAE's cab hailing startup Mondo Ride, which launched in Kenya in 2016 to take on Uber, Maramoja Transport has raised $2 million in funding today to bring to $5 million its total funds raised as the firm struggles to beat Taxify, Little and Uber in Kenya's aggressive taxi market. Since its ...
Taxify has hit one year since its launch in Kenya, East Africa recording tremendous growth in the last 12 months. The firm says it expanded to 4 cities within East Africa in the last quarter of 2017 with more than 5 million trips taken across East Africa. The firm says ...
Following the news about how the expansion of Taxify to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in Nigeria was trending across social media in the country, the cab hailing and hire platform is now fully operational in the city. In a message sent via email to all users of the cab hire ...
So in the spirit of expansion, cab hailing company Taxify are poised to launch in Abuja, Nigeria on the 10th of November. Reactions have trailed this on Social media too. While waiting for them to promise more chicken wings during their ride, do not expect Uber to react as they ...
Didi-backed Taxify has launched Taxify Comfort, a new service for riders seeking a top-end service experience with experienced and highest rated drivers as well as newer, better car models. The launch of Taxify Comfort comes just ten days after Uber launched UberSELECT in the market. Taxify Silently, Didi-backed firm added surge ...
... continued from Part 1 CAB HIRE CONFIRMATION TIME To check the time of confirmation of a can hire, I tried hiring a taxi from the same location to the same destination on both apps. On Taxify, my order was confirmed and my designated driver was assigned to me in ...
Cab hiring services is one innovation that took the world of start-up by storm as it witnessed massive acceptance and patronage in many countries all across the world. I do not have enough facts, figures or statistics to back up my next statement but I think Nigeria, if not the ...
So yesterday, twitter was awash with whole lots of tweets which were aimed at "Uche from Taxify". Apparently, the cab hailing platform has been doing some rigorous email marketing and it isn't going down too well with users. So they came for the head of a particular "Uche" for spamming ...
Since its launch in September in Sub-Saharan Africa, Uber has signed up 1.8 million active riders and 29,000 active driver-partners with South Africa leading the pack with 969 000 active riders and 12 000 active drivers while Nigeria comes in second with 267 000 active riders and 7 000 active ...
Founded by Tanzanian-American Godwin Gabriel, Moovn is a black-owned international ride hailing platform taking on Uber, Lyft and Didi in the US, UAE and across Africa. Moovn, which launched in Tanzania last year recently partnered with Vodacom on data and payments as it mulls expansion into Kenya and South Africa ...
Founded by Edward Essien, Ken Nwogbo and Charles Okoronkwo, Holla Cab, an On Demand Taxi Hailing company has announced that it's set to launch its services in Lagos, Nigeria to allow anyone hail a cab from their smartphones instantly in a few weeks time. The Holla Cab app is launching ...
A good number of Nairobi driver partners using Uber, Taxify, Little and Mondo Ride apps have downed their tools indefinite calling for a hike in prices from their respective affiliate firms known to be lowering prices every month to stay competitive but at the detriment of driver revenues. In a ...
Taxify, Europe’s ride-sharing platform, launches tomorrow morning in London with thousands of drivers signed up to the platform and ready to accept rides anywhere in the Capital from 10.00am on Tuesday 5 September just a month after its partnership with China's Didi Chuxing. The firm says it has suspended surge ...
Maybe in a bid to improve patronage, or to thank customers as they would put it, Ride hailing platform Taxify has included a free chicken wing option in the app. Users can order chicken wing from the Taxify app just as they get matched with a driver. This offer is for ...
Didi Chuxing-backed Taxify is running a 50% off promotion tomorrow to encourage Kenyans to go out and vote by charging riders 50% less they take on election day. "While running this promotion, we’ll be compensating our drivers with bonuses, to compensate the difference," announced the firm. "Our focus is to ...
Taxify has announced a strategic partnership with China's mobile transportation platform, Didi Chuxing to accelerate its growth. The company revealed in a statement that under this partnership, Didi will invest in and collaborate with it to support its future growth and innovation across its diversified markets Didi Chuxing said the ...
The transport and ride-sharing companies taking on Uber are increasing day by day. A sign that the competition is getting to Uber was when Taxify cut their prices and they also did same. Now, another transport company has launched to take on Uber, Taxify and Oga Taxi. It is called ...
Competition is very good and it breeds healthy competition. This is exactly what is happening between Taxify and Uber. Yesterday, 3rd May 2017, Taxify lowered its fares. Perhaps, in a swift response to the price reduction by Taxify, Uber reduced its fares by 40%. Before After Base Fare N 400 N 200 Minimum ...
Taxify, one of the fastest growing transport apps in Europe with over 1M customers in 15 countries is seeing a tremendous growth in Africa where Uber is falling prey of its own economics of price fixing. Founded in Estonia in 2013, Taxify is building the market leading platform connecting people ...
Taxify, the latest ride-hailing app in the Kenyan market has reduced its prices by 15% in a move aimed at taking on Mondo, Uber and Little in Nairobi, as the new year jets in. According to the firm, the reduction will help both drivers and passengers as the 15% ...
