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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
For 10 long years, quietly tucked away in Bengaluru, MoveInSync has been slogging to solve the problem of employee transportation.
Editor's note: The drudgery of going to work is a ritual as old as modern, urban life itself. Seen purely from the lens of mobility, human beings have come a long way in the last few hundred years. From horses to carriages to rail to a whole host of inventions aspiring to meet the ever-increasing comforts of the personal office-goer. In India, Ola and Uber and a host of lesser known startups covering pretty much all modes of transport—from buses to two-wheelers—are trying to solve the problem of getting people from point A to B. A man like Deepesh Agarwal, however, thinks here’s a specific problem to solve and profit from. I met Agarwal, co-founder and CEO of MoveInSync Technologies, at his office in Bengaluru’s HSR Layout. Even though it is a 10-year old company, chances are you’ve never heard of it. Unlike its neighbours Udaan, the B2B e-commerce company, and Cure.fit, a fitness startup that combines gyms, food delivery and meditation; both are valued in the billions of dollars. A simple explanation for MoveInSync is that it is a mobility company. …
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