The EV ride-hailing upstart is taking on the might of Ola and Uber with its full-stack business model that focusses on the users and drivers. Can David shock the Goliaths with an electric play?
BluSmart team (from left): Anirudh Arun, Chief Operations Officer; Punit Goyal, Co-Founder; Tushar Garg, Chief Business Officer; Anmol Singh Jaggi, CEO and Co-Founder; Rishabh Sood, Chief Technology Officer. BluSmart is India's first all electric cab service where the company leases, owns and operates EVs.
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December 3, 2019, Bengaluru. For the three musketeers at BluSmart, it was tremendous awe followed by an out-of-the-blue shock. Anmol Singh Jaggi, Punit Goyal and Tushar Garg had a pitch meeting with one of the most celebrated venture capitalists in India. Out of extreme awe for the venerated funder, the co-founders of the electric vehicle (EV) ride-hailing upstart landed at the Kempegowda International Airport in quite early in the morning. The friends, along with two more co-founders, Rishabh Sood and Anirudh Arun, were about to roll out BluSmart in Delhi-NCR. In fact, the app was set to get launched on December 5 that year.