Category: Mobility Companies

Via to provide its Technology and Support Services for Harvard University’s Evening Van Service

Published August 20, 2018 9:00 am, Via NYC
Via to provide its Technology and Support Services for Harvard University’s Evening Van Service
Via’s first university sector project applies the company’s on-demand rideshare technology to the campus environment

Via’s on-demand mobility solutions announced today that it has entered into a license agreement with Harvard University for the provision of Via’s rideshare technology and support services for the University’s evening van service.

Students, faculty, and staff can now book rides around campus using an intuitive, and fully customized mobile app powered by Via. This mobile technology directs passengers to the proper location for pick-ups and drop-offs, allowing for quick and efficient shared trips without detours that take riders out of their way. An algorithm directs the vehicle in real-time along an optimized route, keeping passenger wait times to a minimum and reducing inefficient detours.

“We are thrilled to work with Harvard University to provide this first of a kind campus-wide service.” said Daniel Ramot, co-founder and CEO of Via.

About Via

Via is re-engineering public transit, from a regulated system of rigid routes and schedules to a fully dynamic, on-demand network. Via’s mobile app connects multiple passengers who are headed the same way, allowing riders to seamlessly share a premium vehicle. First launched in New York City in September 2013, the Via platform currently operates in the United States, and in Europe through its joint venture with Mercedes-Benz Vans, ViaVan. Via’s technology is also deployed worldwide through partner projects with public transportation agencies, private transit operators, taxi fleets, private companies, and universities, seamlessly integrating with public transit infrastructure to provide the most cutting edge on-demand mobility innovation.

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Lyft Welcomes VP of Engineering Manish Gupta

We are thrilled to welcome Manish Gupta to Lyft’s leadership team. In his role as Vice President of Engineering, Manish will lead engineering efforts across Lyft’s business platforms, including enterprise, partnerships, and healthcare, as well as our growing work with non-emergency medical transportation organizations. Reporting to Peter Morelli, Manish will also oversee the teams dedicated… Continue reading Lyft Welcomes VP of Engineering Manish Gupta

Getting ready for more early riders in Phoenix

Getting ready for more early riders in Phoenix By: Ellice Perez, Head of Operations We launched our early rider program in Phoenix in April 2017, and today, hundreds of riders are using our fully self-driving vehicles to get around every day, with even more joining throughout the summer. To run this self-driving service, we rely on… Continue reading Getting ready for more early riders in Phoenix

Why the Careem app is more than just a tool for ride hailing

You know the Careem app. And in the last six years at Careem we have built a large ride-hailing business, but what we’ve really built is a large Internet business.

Careem is a tech company first and foremost, and in the process of building the ride-hailing business we have created the ecosystem to help others build their own regional Internet business on our platform.

While launching Careem we developed and implemented a lot of the underlying infrastructure that was needed to run a consumer Internet business in multiple countries in the region, then harmonised them on a single platform. That wasn’t easy. But now we can do many more things than just mobility, and we are one of the few companies that have breadth of population and support in a large tech platform.

Our focus was mobility, all forms of things that can move people, but now we’re expanding to other aspects for which our app can provide a stable and far-reaching base.

Building an Internet business in the region is difficu..

How Careem’s growth is driving affordability and choice… and we…

Careem’s growth and the idea of what we provide can differ depending on who you are and where you live. For some people in a place like Dubai, Careem might be the Lexus you book to take you to the airport. In Egypt, it’s the motorbike you get when you need to beat the traffic and get across Cairo in a hurry. In Pakistan it’s the tuk tuk you use to get to work every day. We are, of course, all those things and more, but why we are all those things is the important part.

Our focus is on making our service affordable for the masses and helping to solve the transport issues that we’ve seen across all our markets. To do this we have been diversifying our vehicle types across all markets because the tech infrastructure we have built can support multiple vehicle types.

It started with cars. For example, when we first launched in Cairo, we did so with just ten cars which, in hindsight, is ridiculously few for a city that large. Someone would open the app and it said you’ll get a car in 90 mi..

Careem is now six years old… and we’ve come a long way

This month marks the sixth anniversary of the founding of Careem, from a service created in Dubai largely for corporate clients to a multi-vehicle platform operating in over 100 cities in 14 countries the growth has been signicant. We launched with a mission to simplify and improve the lives of people, and to build an awesome organisation that inspires – and six years into that mission it’s worth looking at how much we’ve accomplished.

And here are some of the stats from our first six years…

And we’re not finished yet. In fact, our mission to simplify and improve lives and create an awesome organisation that inspires is one that had no end point. We go on, and we’re delighted to have you with us.

Repositioning: 
Hubject gives a new face to emobility

Berlin, 23 July 2018 – The global emobility specialist Hubject has redesigned its Hubject and intercharge brands as part of its internationalisation process. The new positioning shifts the focus to the company’s holistic approach and in-house expertise and is presented through new brand claims and a completely overhauled corporate design. Hubject works on the collaborative… Continue reading Repositioning: 
Hubject gives a new face to emobility

Careem and Abaad partner to support El Dar Programme

As an organisation whose mission is to simplify and improve the lives of people, Careem decided 2018 was going to be the year we paid extra close attention to what we were doing for women in our region.

This is why on international women’s day this year, we pledged to bring onboard 20,000 female Captains by 2020. We also launched our internal women@Careem network – a internal program created for and by our female colleagues to network and engage with each other, but most importantly, to raise awareness of and promote an inclusive culture for men and women to learn from each other.

Staying true to this, last Christmas, we ran a “HOHOHO” promocode campaign which enabled users to collect five percent of their rides using the HOHOHO promocode. After one month, the top users with the most donations, were allowed to pick the NGO all proceeds would be donated to. The winning NGO was ABAAD – a non-profit organisation founded in June 2011 which fought for violence against women.

The campaign..

Careem Engineer & Data Scientist Stories

Peter Minev, Managing Director Berlin

Careem is a unique place where people are bound by a strong sense of an inspiring mission, and a compelling vision. It’s a fast growing environment where super talented engineers get an opportunity to challenge themselves and learn more.
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Olga Syrova, Member of Technical Staff, Berlin

I am a back end engineer, and I chose to be with Careem because I support their mission. Careem is a place where engineers are inspired. We spend our time reflecting on technologies and existing solutions, exchanging points of view, and elaborating the pros and cons in order to get the best of the architecture and processes we use. That’s a typical day at Careem. Your experience and your vision are highly valued here. With people coming from more than 50 different countries, Careem managed to create a very powerful platform where we can create effective and scalable solutions, and change people’s lives for the better.
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Navneet Gupta, Engineering Manager, Dub..

Careem creates between 60,000 and 70,000 jobs per month… have you…

This is the NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kyiv. Last May it hosted the Champions League final between Real Madrid and Liverpool. Now imagine this stadium full of people… that is how many people are starting to work for Careem each month.

Here at Careem we are creating between 60,000 and 70,000 jobs per month, so despite being seen largely as a ride-hailing company, the biggest impact Careem has is not moving people, but rather, giving people jobs.

Having launched in Dubai in 2012, Careem has rapidly expanded to have a presence in 14 countries and 100 cities across the wider MENA region in just under six years. In that time, we have created over 850,000 job opportunities for Captains, and our presence is having a positive socio-economic impact in the markets in which we operate.

With more than 24 million customers we can generate steady incomes for the Captains who work with Careem. There were a lot of people in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt who were not employed, or were under-emplo..