We recently added 3 awesome people to our team and moved into a new bigger office. The old one was turning out to be too small! Here’s a photo of the team in the new office. 

We’re really excited about our goal and are working hard and having loads of fun building a world class company!

Technology is at the core of everything we do at Ola! We’re revolutionizing the car rental and cab services industry using innovative tech solutions and we work at the interface of some of the most exciting technologies today.

• Developing a fast and scalable web platform to serve the whole eco-system of car rental customers and operators
• Developing intuitive and amazing mobile apps that wow our customers
• Building social media interactions into the core of our products
• Building GPS and location enabled platforms to engage cars and drivers
• Designing demand models for various geographies to ensure our supply chain is always optimal Continue reading →

Ola people!

It’s been an eventful couple of months at Olacabs. We raised angel funding from a bunch of awesome investors, moved into a new office and got some really enthusiastic interns to come work with us! We’ve also been hard at work in expanding our network of partners across Mumbai.

When we began 5 months ago, we had 3 partners in the suburbs of Powai, Andheri and Malad. Now we’ve expanded significantly reflecting the growth in demand for our product. The map below shows the locations of our partners. We’re still suburb heavy, but have expanded our network to Thane and even Navi Mumbai! And we’re working to increase our presence in South Mumbai as demand from there increases.

One operational metric we at Olacabs track religiously is “Dead Distance” i.e. the distance the cab has to travel to pickup the customer. The lower we can bring this, the more quicker and efficient the experience is for our partners and customers.

We dispatch the closest available car to the customer and our operations team works really hard to make cars available every few kilometers. It isn’t easy! Requests come from all over the city and for different categories of cars. Some regions have more demand than others, for example near the Airport. We’ve got to ensure we have just enough cars of each category in each region. Having too much supply will lead to lower bookings per partner and make them disgruntled!

Excited by the problems we are solving? We’re hiring and would love to speak with you!

Ola!
 
At Olacabs we are revolutionizing the way ground transportation works in India. Traditionally car rentals and taxi services in India have been highly disorganized and fragmented. This has led to a very bad consumer experience and large inefficiencies. We are pioneers in bringing technology to this industry and are building a brand and a company that will be widely known and used.
 
We are a startup by two IIT Bombay alums. The founding team is:

 

Bhavish Aggarwal: Co-Founder and CEO. Graduated with a B.Tech in Computer science from IIT Bombay in 2008, worked at Microsoft Research in Bangalore for 2 years after that.
Ankit Bhati: Co-Founder and CTO. B.Tech and M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay, worked at an IIT Bombay backed startup Wilcom.

 

If you are graduating from college and don’t want a mundane campus job, or even if you are stuck at one but would rather be part of a young dynamic company that excites and motivates you, do contact us! We are looking for passionate, energetic and self motivated people who will come in as early employees, work with us and build a company that touches the lives of millions of people in our country and beyond! We are based in Mumbai and are actively hiring for the two roles below. (Details here –http://www.olacabs.com/info/careers#positions)

 

Online Marketing Analyst
Are you the kind of person who feels at home navigating your way through search engines and social media? Do you spend your evenings writing or reading blogs and stumbling upon content on the web? Are you the type who loves data and making decisions based on tonnes of data? If you think so, do get in touch!

 

Operations Executive
Do you love to plan your office trips or college outings? Are you the kind who believes business is about going out and building relationships? Do you love to hit the streets, pick up the phone and make calls and engage with people? Do you hate to sit in office for too long and would rather be out breaking a sweat doing work in the real world? Call us if you think so!

 

At Olacabs, you’ll be in a fast-paced, casual and fun environment, working hard, learning a ton of new things and constantly beating your own best!

 

Get in touch with us over email (careers@olacabs.com) and we would love to interact!