07 · The opportunity

Be the first to back India's shared commute.

Pair My Ride is at the prototype stage. We're bootstrapped, pre-launch, and have no investors yet. We're looking for early believers to help us take the prototype to a pilot launch and prove our pricing model with real commuters.

Prototype stage · pre-launch · bootstrapped, with no outside investors yet
Investment thesis

Why Pair My Ride, and why now.

Built-in frequency

Two rides a day, every office day. Commuting is the most habitual trip in a person's life.

Network effects by corridor

Each new pilot improves match rates for every rider on that road, and liquidity compounds locally.

Asset-light supply

No fleet and no driver incentives to fund: pilots are already driving the route.

Prototype, not just slides

Route-aware matching, the ride flow and UPI payments (test mode) already work end to end in our prototype.

Efficient pricing model

Cost-sharing fares with no surge and a thin 3% take: cheap for riders, fair for pilots, lean for us.

India-native rails

UPI settlement and digital KYC make peer-to-peer mobility viable at scale.

Where we are

Pre-seed · our first raise

We're a bootstrapped team with a working prototype and no outside funding yet. We're looking for our first investors to help us launch a pilot in one office corridor and validate our pricing model with real commuters.

Stage
Idea + working prototype
Funding to date
Bootstrapped
Existing investors
None yet
Raise
Open to discussion
Planned use of first funds
40%
Pilot corridor launch
Onboard and verify the first pilots and riders in one office corridor.
30%
Product hardening
Take the prototype to production: push, ratings, wallet ledger, load testing.
15%
Trust & safety
KYC verification process, rider support and incident response.
15%
Legal & operations
Company setup, compliance, payment gateway onboarding, infrastructure.
What first funding unlocks

From prototype to a proven pilot corridor.

01

Launch a pilot in one dense office corridor

02

Onboard and verify our first pilots and riders

03

Validate the pricing model: rider savings and pilot cost recovery

04

Measure match rate and repeat pairing to prove the model can replicate

Let's ride together.

We'd love to demo the prototype and walk you through our pricing model, the matching engine and our launch plan.