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Rapido raises $240 million from Prosus, WestBridge, Accel; valuation hits $3 billionUrban mobility startup Rapido has secured $240 million in a funding round led by Prosus, valuing the company at $3 billion. This raise is p...
IITian still remembers each of 75 rejections but went on to build a Rs 9,500 crore business. Who is Pavan Guntupalli, founder of Rapido?Pavan Guntupalli, an IIT Kharagpur alumnus, transformed a simple concept into Rapido, a bike-taxi service valued at ₹6,700 crore. Overcomin...
Build trust into governance, product, ops: Rapido's Guntupalli on creating lasting businessesRapido's co-founder, Pavan Guntupalli, emphasizes trust as crucial for lasting businesses, advocating its integration into governance, prod...
NSDC, Rapido ink deal to facilitate skill development for gig workersNSDC has partnered with Rapido to skill gig workers, aiming to enhance employability through standardised training in technical, behavioral...
Rapido in midst of 500-city expansion; mobility opportunity offers strong upside: Cofounder P GuntupalliRapido is expanding into 500 Indian cities, leveraging a SaaS-based model to maximize driver earnings. With 33 lakh daily rides, it dominat...
Gurugram driver helps woman deliver baby in his cab, social media says, “the kind of Vikas we need”A Rapido driver in Gurugram, named Vikas, helped deliver a baby in his cab when a passenger went into labor. Despite the emergency, Vikas r...
Rapido to launch Pink bikes for women; employ 25,000 femalesThis will be an all-women service, where the bikes will be driven by women riders, who will cater exclusively to women customers. Rapido wo...
Free dosa, beer and taxi ride: Here are all the free offers for Bengaluru voters on voting dayBusinesses in Bengaluru are incentivizing voter turnout for the Lok Sabha elections on April 26. With over 1 crore eligible voters, hotels,...
Rapido announces free bike rides to voters in Bengaluru and other cities on FridayOn election day, voters can avail free rides on the Rapido app using the code ‘VOTENOW’ and exercise their democratic right, the company sa...
Rapido to offer free rides to senior citizens, differently-abled voters in Karnataka"In collaboration with the Election Commission of India (ECI) and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Rapido sets forth to champion ...
Ride-hailing platform Rapido launches SaaS model for auto servicesIn the three-wheeler segment, Rapido competes with Namma Yatri, which launched its zero-commission services in Delhi. Namma Yatri raised $1...
In bizarre bike snatching, Rapido Captain left stranded as customer speeds awayA Rapido bike rider, referred to as a Captain, has lodged a complaint with the Panjagutta police in Hyderabad, asserting that a customer wh...
Rapido launches cab services in three citiesThe company aims to expand across India by the middle of next year, said Pavan Guntupalli, cofounder of Rapido.
Rapido offers free rides to 2600 polling booths in Hyderabad on Nov 30Rapido, the ride-sharing platform, has announced the launch of a initiative to provide free rides to over 2,600 polling stations in the cit...
Micro loans, family health insurance part of Rapido Auto’s Bengaluru plansUnder its Auto Dost initiative, five lakh auto captains who are currently based out of Bengaluru city will be benefitted.
Rapido treats auto drivers in Chennai to an exclusive ‘Jailer’ movie screeningRajinikanth's latest movie “Jailer” has received a grand welcome in its release on the box office. It has earned a mammoth INR52 crore ($7m...
Fintech startup iTribe raises $1 million in funding from Eximius Ventures, Cred’s Kunal Shah, othersFounded by second-time entrepreneurs Nikhil M. and Pruthvi Raj E., iTribe plans to deploy the funds to build new technology tools that make...
Xiaomi in talks to back bike taxi app RapidoRapido was founded by Aravind Sanka, Rishikesh S R and Pavan Guntupalli in 2015 and also counts Hero MotoCorp MD Pawan Munjal among its inv...
theKarrier raises seed funding of Rs 1.5 crore from Sol Primero, othersIt will use the money raised to expand to four more cities this year. TheKarrier has 300 vehicles and executes 1,000 orders a month for cli...
Truck services provider TheKarrier raises Rs 1.5 crore from Outbox Ventures, othersTheKarrier was started as a technology platform to organize the fragmented last-mile logistics industry, and runs on a pay-by-kilometer mod...