[NEWS] Wheely raises $15 million for its luxury ride-hailing app – Loganspace

London-essentially essentially based totally startupWheelyhas raised a $15 million Series B round led by Concentric with Oleg Tscheltzoff, Misha Sokolov and diverse investors additionally participating. The firm needs to possess an Uber competitor centered on the posh market.

It’s a chunk ironic when you happen to consider about it as Uber started as a luxury firm. But all americans knows any individual with horrific Uber experiences. That’s whyWheelyis constructing a decent and predictable scamper-hailing ride.

The firm is currently dwell in London, Moscow and St. Petersburg — Paris is coming this summer. It essentially works with 3,500 drivers and it currently has a drag rate of $80 million in adversarial bookings.

Wheely doesn’t strive and reinvent the wheel because the firm works with third-birthday celebration companions and doesn’t teach its drivers. Equally, the firm takes a 20 p.c decrease on every scamper.

But the startup insists on its strict recruitment route of. To illustrate, it’s most likely you’ll possibly most likely most likely’t became a Wheely driver from day one. The firm requires on the least three years of old chauffeur driving ride. You additionally must scramble a pair of exams alongside with driving exams and etiquette exams. Handiest one in four UberBlack drivers scramble the exam.

There are currently three diverse classes — an odd one with Mercedes-Benz E-Class vehicles, a admire one with Mercedes-Benz S-Class vehicles and a van category with Mercedes-Benz V-Class vehicles.

Minimal rides trace £12 with the entry-level class, £16 in an S-Class and on the least £40 for a van. You then pay more reckoning on distance traveled and time spent in the vehicle.

And it’s been working properly as Wheely now represents round 11 p.c of adversarial bookings in London. Given that every scamper is costlier than a old scamper-hailing scamper, it makes sense that Wheely already captured an even chunk of the cash pie. Now let’s look if the firm can uncover ample cities with affluent folks to scale its industry.

Anton Chirkunov – Founder of Wheely.