We are building infrastructure, not another app.
The neutral dispatch layer for Europe’s taxi and private hire operators.
The platform is being built and we are selecting the first operators to start with. We are looking for capital and know-how to get there sooner, and one commercial partner per territory.
The volume is already there. Nobody is monetising it.
Three facts, not three forecasts.
Somebody has already paid for that position
In the United Kingdom Uber bought the dispatch system that thousands of independent operators ran on. Whoever supplies the dispatch decides who sees the work, and it is worth enough to be bought. In continental Europe it is unclaimed.
The revenue sits on every job, not on the ones in the app
The commission accrues on everything an operator sends out, telephone bookings included. That is the difference between monetising an app’s share and monetising the volume those operators already do today.
The same product in four countries
Dispatch does not change when you cross a border: the language changes, the currency changes and the regulatory references change. Opening a new market costs a translation, not a rewrite.
Capital, and people who know where to take it.
The money is needed, but on its own it does not open an operator’s door. What interests us most are shareholders who bring something besides capital: relationships in licensed passenger transport, experience of regulated markets, dealings with authorities and administrations.
We are glad to talk to incubators and accelerators too, particularly where there is vertical expertise in mobility or in regulated markets.
Where we have got to
One partner per territory. Just one.
Whoever opens a patch keeps it.
This market does not open from a distance. Operators know each other, they trust people they have already met, and an introduction made by the right person is worth more than any campaign.
That is why we are looking for a single commercial contact per territory, exclusively: whoever takes a patch works on their own, without finding a second person alongside them talking to the same operators.
The commercial terms are settled case by case, depending on the territory and on what the partner brings.
Two lines are enough.
Who is writing, for which of the two, and for which patch.
We answer everybody. A person reads it, and where there is something to talk about we suggest a time to speak.
For the territory partner, name the patch: the exclusive is assigned by territory and the first question is always which one.
In the United Kingdom this position is already Uber’s.
It bought the dispatch system the independent operators ran on, and with it their data and their customers. In continental Europe it is still unclaimed.