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Karhoo
Global taxi comparison app
- 101-200 employees
- B2C
- Travel
- Marketplace
- Transport
- Paddington, London, UK
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Company mission
Karhoo's mission is to address the challenge of improving mobility in urban centres while making transport safe, convenient and sustainable. To do this, they've built a fully-integrated neutral booking platform for regulated Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles, offering a real choice to travellers.
Our take
Urban areas have seen a huge increase in taxi service providers such as Uber and Lyft. Karhoo has created a ride-hailing marketplace that brings together regulated, licensed taxi and private hire vehicle fleets into one electronic platform.
By 2021, Karhoo had signed up 3000 fleets, available in 1500 cities in 125 countries. It has partnerships with SNCF (France), Thalys (Pan-European), Renfe (Spain), Trainline (UK) and Booking.com (global), among others, to provide its clients with door-to-door travel experiences.
Karhoo faces stiff competition from the likes of Uber. However, by aggregating independent transport providers Karhoo is aiming to harness an extensive but untapped part of the transport market. Furthermore, they're helping independent fleets and brands by ensuring their marketplace is open and fair.
In 2019, Karhoo won the European Startup Gold Prize for mobility, recognising their management successes, social impact and innovation. If Karhoo can maintain its momentum, it has the potential to continue shaping the mobility landscape across Europe and around the world.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Bike-to-Work Scheme
- Travel Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Transparency - We want to create an open, clear and transparent mobility marketplace for all industry players
- Entrepreneurship - We believe in free enterprise in order to enable new business to be successful
- Responsibility - We are conscious that mobility must go with responsibility to ensure a better future for our cities
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2015
$39m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $39m
Leadership
Nicolas Andine
(CEO)Previous worked in asset management and investing at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and other fund managers.
Edmund Read
(COO)Previous Group Operations Director at Just Eat for 7 years.