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Major taxi service in Tokyo offering black and yellow taxis.

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1929

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Japan

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Automotive

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  • My Taxi India

    Led · Equity · Jul 2016

    MyTaxiIndia is an inter-city cab rental platform that provides one-way fare rides for outstation trips and hourly city tours for B2B clients. The company uses an in-house routing and prediction algorithm to automate trip-related processes. Through affiliates it claims to operate 12,000 taxis across 120 cities on more than 10,000 routes and plans to expand to 200 cities by the end of FY2016-17. It has partnered with SpiceJet to let passengers book a taxi at the time of ticket purchase and is seeking additional tie-ups. The firm plans to deploy new capital to expand services into tier-2 and tier-3 cities and to invest in technology development, marketing and branding. Founders are Anshuman Mihir, Mohit Rajpal and Satyakam Rahul, and the company won the best startup award at RISE Hong Kong 2016, receiving Rs 25 lakh.

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