Startup Choice 2017 > Submission

Zify - Carpool 2.0 https://zify.co

by Zify

Zify is an instant & dynamic carpooling application for short & medium distance daily urban commuting. We use artificial intelligence & machine learning to automate the whole carpooling experience making it much more flexible, reliable & easy to use. Users travelling the same direction are matched based on their location, route and their social preferences to make the journey much more contextual and relevant.

Using a 3-tier verification mechanism, Zify insures that the community is secured and only consists of real & relevant users. To make the overall more flexible & seamless, passengers can pay using the inbuilt e-wallet in a cashless manner. The drivers too receive the fare amount within their e-wallet, from which they can withdraw the total amount saved.

What makes Zify unique is the fact that unlike the other carpooling solutions currently available in the market, which still relies on the old & tradition ways of carpooling, ZIFY combines the flexibility of an Uber ride with the cost benefits of a Blablacar ride in a pure p2p on-demand model. Not only it is faster but also a smarter way to carpool.

To build this, we carpooled with more than 1000 people in a period of 4 months with just our car and asking people at busy & crowded areas if they want to carpool. Not only we learned the 3 most factors that were needed to build a solution that could solve this but we also worked with a behavioral psychologist to determine smart & subtle ways of building trust between 2 or more people, which was very essential in order to facilitate a successful carpool.

Till today, we have had over 350 minor product releases and 11 major releases and have written millions of lines of code, all in-house. We follow a very lean & agile methodology to design, build, test & release the product.