Humble Mobile Solutions Pvt. Ltd
which operates on demand driver’s portal DriveU has acquired Gurgaon based
driver booking platform CallAtHome (ANS Technologies Pvt. Ltd) for an
undisclosed amount. DriveU will now have a presence in Gurgaon and over 500
driver partners with the acquisition a number it hopes to double by the end of
this year.
DriveU started operations in
Bengaluru in July 2015, and has a presence in Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi. The company,
which raised $1 Million from Unitus Seed Fund and undisclosed angel investors
in Silicon Valley in February, provides drivers to people so that they can use their
personal vehicles, a model that’s in contrast with that taxi aggregators like
Ola and Uber Technologies Inc. which are promoting the concept of people foregoing
the use of their cars.
DriveU has completed 30,000 trips.
DriveU charges consumers a flat fee of INR 99/hour. Drivers get 80% of the fee
while the company retains the rest as commission. The average booking period is
about four hours. The focus so far has been on Tier 1 Cities where car owners
prefer to be chauffeured around than drive themselves. DriveU is also looking
to expand this base to a network of 100,000 drivers in 20-30 cities in two
three years.
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