{"id":65441,"date":"2023-06-23T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.info\/?p=65441"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:43:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:43:35","slug":"safemotos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/safemotos\/","title":{"rendered":"SafeMotos : a safer Uber for African motorcycle taxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>  <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Nash<\/em> is a relatively crazy Canadian who has lived in Africa for over ten years. <em>Peter<\/em> is a self-taught dev from a small town in Kenya, they met as roommates and over a critical mass of beer voila: <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>SafeMotos<\/strong><\/span> was born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Link to online video<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"boombox-responsive-embed \"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SafeMotos UNDP Social Good Summit\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zy27BvEQreY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your products and services\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We&#8217;re a safer Uber for African motorcycle taxis. We pull telematic sensor data from drivers smartphones <\/span>then<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> use insurance industry best practices to rank drivers. We only <\/span>pair<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> customers to drivers who are above a certain threshold. We are for profit, so make money per trip by offering increased value per trip, with a focus on night trips, hard to reach locations, women drivers for women customers, delivery, and corporate partners. To make sure we are accessible, we offer a number of places that are free to go to because business partners pay to acquire them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your success factors\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Team :<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>Nash<\/em> brings an outsider perspective, <em>Peter<\/em> dreams in code, <em>Morgan<\/em> knows best business practice forward to back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Market :<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Have you been to an African city with motorcycle taxis? They&#8217;re everywhere. Totally cottage industry. Let&#8217;s bring them forward a few generations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your factors differentiating and disruptive compared to the existing\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For one we&#8217;re all a bit crazy, motivated by more than just making money but by proving something a bit deeper to each of ourselves. I think we haven&#8217;t had the luxury of copypasting Western business <\/span>models,<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> because it&#8217;s just too expensive to be unit economic negative on a massive number of trips, which is the norm in ride sharing: <\/span>instead<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> we&#8217;ve constantly had our back against the wall and it&#8217;s made us innovate. Rwanda is pretty terrific too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjouridee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/13568817_521607628040595_6242089193350999438_o-1024x664.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"525\" \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your business model\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">30% cut per normal trip, higher for <\/span>nightime<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\/corporate\/female drivers; with our FreeMotos being paid by business partners paying a per conversion price for each customer they acquire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>A few words about your competitors<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They&#8217;re very nice people! <em>SafeBoda<\/em> is cool, but we think we&#8217;re focusing a bit higher altitude, <em>Max<\/em> is sick but coming at the opportunity from a different angle, Uber can have fun training moto drivers, <em>Sendy<\/em> is more delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nash is a relatively crazy Canadian who has lived in Africa for over ten years. Peter is a self-taught dev from a small town in Kenya, they met as roommates and over a critical mass of beer voila: SafeMotos was born. Link to online video Your products and services\u00a0 We&#8217;re a safer Uber for African&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":65438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1737],"tags":[1795],"class_list":["post-65441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213166,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65441\/revisions\/213166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}