Daily Travel Made Easier with Smart Commut

Daily Travel Made Easier
Smart Commut Technologies Pvt. Ltd. www.commut.co

In the last 16 years
200+ millions
Predicted Population of India by 2030 -
1.5 Billion!
By 2031, 51 Indian cities will
cross 1 million population

No. of private vehicles: 20% YOY
Hyderabad
10 Million 4.9 Million

How do you travel to work?

most of urban India
This is how
travels to work everyday
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• Inconvenient and insecure public transport - especially for women
• Significant rise of personal vehicles & cabs
• Severe traffic congestion, pollution & parking issues
• Last mile connectivity is a major issue!
Market Failures

Solution?

How are we making a difference?

With a safer, comfortable & affordable
mass transit option!

We are a tech-enabled mass transit service offering:
• Point to point shuttle services
• On-demand & Subscription services
• Demand responsive routes & frequency
What we do

Our Vision
To disrupt the way India travels

Launched Operations:
Trial phase
Nov’15
Jan’16
Apr‘16
Aug’16
Nov’16
Feb’17
Aug’17
Oct’17
Full fledged operations
200K USD seed round
from 50K ventures
Awarded as the Best Impact
Startup in Hyderabad by Hon.
Mayor of Hyderabad.
150,000 bookings
Received project fund from
Shell Foundation,
London
500,000 bookings
Our Journey so far
Selected for MAN
Accelerator

Commuter
Comfortable Travel
(Guaranteed seat)
Safe
(Driver background checks,
Safety features)
Economical (~30%)
Increased Productivity
(Well-spent 900 hours of travel time)
Accessibility
(29% - No public Transportation)
How are we impacting the customers?
Environment Friendly
(Reducing the number of vehicles on road)

Quality service to Low & Middle income groups:
• 26% of our commuters earn less than $14 a day.
Connectivity:
• 29% of our commuters don’t have access to public transport.
Equal accessibility to work

Safer Travel for Women
• WRI Survey on Women Commuters revealed that Women
overwhelmingly prefer ( > 99% ) shared transportation if
some basic safety standards are met.
• 58% of our commuters are women
Safety Features
✓ Driver Background check
✓ Live-tracking
✓ Hawkeye Integration
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Impact – Driver Partners
Driver Partners
Weekly Payment Cycles
Health, Accidental
Care & Insurance
Micro Entrepreneurship
Skill Development
Financial Inclusion
(Direct bank transfers)

The impact we’ve created on Environment!
76,20,000 KMs
less driven
400+ Tons
of CO2 emissions prevented
1,00,000+
tress saved
*Calculation based on number of Commut vehicles running every month for an average distance of 30KM per trip.
**Based on survey done on our commuters. Calculation done on ICICI Carbon footprint calculator.
#In Collaboration with a third party.
Previous modes of transport**:
● 23% - Cars
● 19% - Bikes
● 17% - App based Taxis
● 41% - Public Transport/Company Transport
And we are piloting electric vehicles between a few
prominent areas of Hyderabad
#

Intelligent Bus Networks – A global trend currently!

With Support from the Bureaucrats
Commut Team with
IT & Industries Secretary Mr. Jayesh Ranjan
Commut Team with
Cyberabad Police Commissioner Mr. CV Anand

Recognition Received
Was chosen among Hyd’s top 10 startups
Presented by: Hon Minister for IT, UD, Mr. KTR
Was awarded the Best impact startup in Hyderabad
Presented by: Hon Mayor of Hyderabad, Mr. Rammohan
Of late, the central and state governments are encouraging mass transit and shared
modes of transport to solve the congestion issues in metros!

Our Partners

Our Mentors
Sudhakar Pasupunuri Board
member, Commut.
(Co-founder & Ex COO – RedBus.
RedBus is the biggest bus ticketing
platform in the world.)
Ramesh Loganathan
(Ex President, HYSEA & VP,
Progress software)
Dr Baba Prasad
(CEO Vivekin, Phd., Wharton School)
Prashanth Bachu
(WRI, www.wri.org)

Media Coverage
We’ve been covered by more than 20 renowned media houses!
Bloomberg Quint National Geographic

“A developed country is not a
place where the poor have cars.
It's where the rich use public transportation.”
- Gustavo Petro
Mayor, Bogota(Colombia)

And that’s how we have begun the disruption!
Thank you!
And that’s how we have
begun the disruption!

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