Uber rival Taxify bets on motorcycles and rickshaws in East Africa


  • TECH
  • Monday, 13 Aug 2018

FILE PHOTO: A Taxify car drives in Tallinn, Estonia, June 13, 2017. Picture taken June 13, 2017. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo

Taxify, an Estonian ride-hailing company aiming to take on Uber in emerging markets, will invest millions of euros in East Africa in the next five years with a strategy focused on motorised rickshaws and motorcycles.

The company, which already operates in five cities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and will continue to offer regular car rides, said it saw the best opportunity for growth via taxi services in locally popular forms of motorised transport.

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