In 2021 inDriver, a ride-hailing app founded in Yakutsk, Siberia, back in 2012, announced it had achieved unicorn status. Its valuation reached $1.23 billion, following a funding round of $150 million earlier that year. This startup seemed set to continue its rollout into new locations around the world, including plans to expand into Australia.
In February, Rest of World traveled to Yakutsk to visit the company’s flagship office and speak to some of its team about its ongoing expansion. It seemed that nothing could hold back the company’s rise from a local Russian service to a truly global rideshare competitor. Then, less than an hour after Aleksandr Pavlov, inDriver’s chief mobile hub officer, spoke with Rest of World about the company’s future plans, the news broke: Russia had invaded Ukraine.
Nothing could slow inDriver’s rise from Siberian startup to global Uber competitor. Then Russia invaded UkraineRead More
