Founded By IITians, ShareACar Is Adding Practicality To Carpooling As We Know It

Nowadays, roads are more a sight of stagnant cars stuck in long traffics than moving cars. In fact, various state governments have also started various initiatives to curb the increasing figure of cars on roads and put a lid on the pollution problem. Car Free Day is one such initiative started by the Haryana government in Gurgaon and more recently in Delhi. The concept borrowed from the west, encourages the citizens to ditch their vehicles once a week and share a ride to office or use the public transport.

In 2009, carpooling represented 43.5% of all trips in the United States and 10% of commute trips. In India however, carpooling is still a relatively new concept which hasn't it picked up traction in the Indian Market yet. The Indian market is exactly at an infant stage in terms of the ride sharing or carpooling market.

Even though, India do have handful of homegrown ride-sharing or carpooling startups/apps such as Zify, sRide, Ridingo, among others, are providing its users decent platform which can be used for sharing rides.

Now, a relatively new carpooling app - ShareACar, claims to be adding practicality to carpooling as we know it.

ShareACar is a realtime ride-sharing app that helps connecting real verified users to share their rides together and helps them save fuel and environment in the process. The users can do the sharing in their own vehicles or book a cab for the same.


ShareAcar's co-founders - Rohit Karan and Shobhit Srivastava, both alumnus of IIT Kanpur, came up with the idea for ShareACar after realising the traffic epidemic that the Indian cities are suffering from. They realised that even though everyone wanted the problem to be solved but yet no one did anything concrete about the same. They also realised that even though most of the people were in favour of the idea of carpooling but yet they didn't consider it as a safe and practical option.

Mumbai-based ShareACar aims to solve this lifelong taboo associated with carpooling and ease commuting problems in Indian cities.

[caption id="attachment_102130" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Shobhit Srivastava and Rohit Karan [/caption]

There are many other carpooling players currently existing in the market, but no one has been able to make carpooling as practical an option as they have. They distinguish themselves from others in the market by offering the users a solution where people are empowered with no fixed fares (upto a certain cap), no route matching algorithm and complete flexibility to decide who they want to travel with. Further, every cash transaction is done through an online wallet, hence providing the people with an option to travel cashless.

The app has an attractive and super easy to use map based UI on which users can put in their coordinates. Further, the app is completely real time in order to ensure no unnecessary pre planning.

The startup which is self funded till now, has seen some 250 odd users registering over the last few weeks since its launch. Further, around 45 rides have already been shared on the app over the last 3 weeks.

The Mumbai based app plans to increase its presence in other cities in the coming future and is tying up with various agencies for the same.

sRide is An Uber For Instant On-The-Go Carpooling Service Solving Last-Mile Problem

sRide a new carpool app, is the first of it's kind. sRide connects riders and car owners to help commuters save money, reduce traffic, stay green and possibly earn friend.

Targeted at everyday office going people, Pune-based sRide is making entire carpooling experience seamless using cutting edge technology under the hood cutting. Making a commute easier, cheaper and safer. sRide, follows the motto of 'Connect on the go', share a ride, share a moment, and save money at the same time. It's a personal carpool tool - an easy way to find safe and friendly ride partners based on your social networks, and bring about a lifestyle change moving away from self-owned automobile dependency to shared services and active transportation.

sRide also claims to be the 1^st carpool app in India to do cashless transaction for carpooling. Integrated with payTM, it gives user choice to pay through payTM rather than doing all cash transaction hassle.

sRide was launched in Pune in April 2015 and the startup claims that its user base is growing at 400 per cent every month. Currently present in Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore, sRide has more than 25000 active users and many of its power users use sRide on a daily basis on both side.

[caption id="attachment_101873" align="alignleft" width="218"] Lakhsna Jha[/caption]

sRide is the brainchild of Lakshna Jha, a women Entrepreneur.She is an MBA from Columbia Business School and worked as a technology leader for leading technology companies. Lakshna strongly believes that we need to improve our commute experience while reducing the number of cars on the road.

"Think of sRide as a revolution in the world of carpooling: your one-stop (pun intended) shop to find a ride when you are on the go. sRide is touting as Facebook of transportation," said Lakshna.

sRide is self-funded and bootstrapped startup which, in March'15, got investment of around $1.5 million from private investors (friends & family).

By using technology to make sharing rides easier, sRide is creating a new transportation option for community that's saves people money, reduces the number of cars on the road and cuts pollution.

sRide does something else that not many companies can claim to do: bring different people physically together, and foster the opportunity for them to really get to know each other especially in a world when everybody is glued to their phones, breaking down cultural barriers and connecting people in a real way.

sRide differentiators -

• Safety- Verification of all profiles for company name else company name is shown UNVERIFIED on profile


• Every trip has to be reviewed so social feedback loop


• Matching is done by complex propriety algorithm

sRide is said to be driven by smart analytics and has a patent based recommendation engine that recommends rides to people based on their earlier preferences. Users get automatic notifications for their regular rides as well.

sRide competes with other car pooling players operating in India such as BlaBlaCar, Tripda, Orahi and Ziffy. While Brazilian firm Tripda has raised close to USD 11 million in two different rounds of funding, Hyderabad-based Ziffy raised total of around USD 190K.

RidingO Allows Car Owners To Safely Share Rides With Other Commuters

The nature has given us so many wonderful things and now it's our time to return the favor. Don't know how to do that? Don't worry, people at RidingO have it all figured out for you.

More than 88,00,000 empty car seats occupy the narrow roads of seven large cities in India as everyone prefers having a private car for themselves. RidingO has an aim of filling these empty car seats and saving the nature of all the pollution and the citizens of all the congested roads.

Currently operating only in Bangalore, RidingO provides an online platform that allows people from reputed companies to carpool or safely share rides in their car with other people with a similar background by making use of a patent-able route matching algorithm. In order to remove the awkwardness of cash exchange between strangers, RidingO allows passengers and drivers split the cost of the trip using an innovative fuel based payment system.

RidingO is absolutely free to register and use and also have an Ridingo for Andriod users. The platform only charges 5 to 20 percent service charge to the owner of the car when ride rewards are given.

Best thing about Ridingo is that you don't need smartphones or internet once registered, all you have to do is just use a phone to give a missed call to use Ridingo. With Ridingo, only people working in reputed companies get in and women rides with friends or women only.

Ridingo provides an online rewards system for the vehicle owners. Passengers buy Ridingo Coins online and, Car owners get these Coins on ride completion. These coins can then be redeemed for fuel and other items. Ridingo charge a 5% to 20% service charge to the Car owner when Ride Rewards are given.

RidingO is a mobile and cloud based solution for ride sharing. The company wants to transform the idea of carpooling from an ideal but rare practice to a preferred and practical way of commute for citizens of India. In order to make this possible, they are working out round the clock to work out a safe and mutually beneficial cost effective car sharing system for car owners and passengers.

With its office in Bangalore's NASSCOM Startup Warehouse, RidingO is a New Delhi based product startup and result of hardwork from its three co-founders Vardhan, Srivatsan and Presha Paragash.

Vardhan is an engineer who has a Masters in Economics from Gokhale Institute. He has an experience of three years in Statistical Modeling and Analytics up his sleeve. He has worked for Citibank and Marketelligent, an analytics startup, in the past.

On the other hand, Srivatsan is an engineering graduate from Anna University and has over six years of experience in programming. Before starting RidingO, he was working in HP’s R&D division. He also has two patents in Cloud Printing technology under his kitty.

Presha is a fresh MBA graduate from Wharton University. She has also previously studied in London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an Angel investor for Zostel, a chain of backpacker hostels for young travellers.

RidingO Allows Car Owners To Safely Share Rides With Other Commuters

The nature has given us so many wonderful things and now it's our time to return the favor. Don't know how to do that? Don't worry, people at RidingO have it all figured out for you.

More than 88,00,000 empty car seats occupy the narrow roads of seven large cities in India as everyone prefers having a private car for themselves. RidingO has an aim of filling these empty car seats and saving the nature of all the pollution and the citizens of all the congested roads.

Currently operating only in Bangalore, RidingO provides an online platform that allows people from reputed companies to carpool or safely share rides in their car with other people with a similar background by making use of a patent-able route matching algorithm. In order to remove the awkwardness of cash exchange between strangers, RidingO allows passengers and drivers split the cost of the trip using an innovative fuel based payment system.

RidingO is absolutely free to register and use and also have an Ridingo for Andriod users. The platform only charges 5 to 20 percent service charge to the owner of the car when ride rewards are given.

Best thing about Ridingo is that you don't need smartphones or internet once registered, all you have to do is just use a phone to give a missed call to use Ridingo. With Ridingo, only people working in reputed companies get in and women rides with friends or women only.

Ridingo provides an online rewards system for the vehicle owners. Passengers buy Ridingo Coins online and, Car owners get these Coins on ride completion. These coins can then be redeemed for fuel and other items. Ridingo charge a 5% to 20% service charge to the Car owner when Ride Rewards are given.

RidingO is a mobile and cloud based solution for ride sharing. The company wants to transform the idea of carpooling from an ideal but rare practice to a preferred and practical way of commute for citizens of India. In order to make this possible, they are working out round the clock to work out a safe and mutually beneficial cost effective car sharing system for car owners and passengers.

With its office in Bangalore's NASSCOM Startup Warehouse, RidingO is a New Delhi based product startup and result of hardwork from its three co-founders Vardhan, Srivatsan and Presha Paragash.

Vardhan is an engineer who has a Masters in Economics from Gokhale Institute. He has an experience of three years in Statistical Modeling and Analytics up his sleeve. He has worked for Citibank and Marketelligent, an analytics startup, in the past.

On the other hand, Srivatsan is an engineering graduate from Anna University and has over six years of experience in programming. Before starting RidingO, he was working in HP’s R&D division. He also has two patents in Cloud Printing technology under his kitty.

Presha is a fresh MBA graduate from Wharton University. She has also previously studied in London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an Angel investor for Zostel, a chain of backpacker hostels for young travellers.