Karhoo works slightly differently from many of its rivals such as Uber. It simply provides a platform for taxi companies to offer ride prices in the app so that users can choose the provider that suits their needs. For the Netherlands and Flanders, this will soon be done for taxi companies via the Pitane Mobility network.
The Flit Technologies Group was founded in 2016 with the acquisition of Karhoo, which then ran into financial difficulties and had to cease operations. A new Karhoo team was put together and services were restarted in 2017, with a renewed business model and a new business approach.
Flit Technologies Group was subsequently expanded with a partnership with COMO to create COMO Urban Mobility and with the acquisition of Yuso in 2018. The group now has more than 100 employees and more than 1000 customers. Together they support the growth of a better urban mobility environment.
Role of Pitane Mobility and profit for our customers
With national coverage in the Netherlands and Belgium and a very large coverage of taxi companies in the major cities, the user of Pitane Mobility will be able to benefit from this rather unique collaboration in the coming years.
Via the Pitane Mobility network, Karhoo will offer its ride orders on the Dutch and Belgian market. Think of transport expansions for bookings of hotel rooms and flights and the associated taxi rides to and from the airport or the expansion of transport from each railway station.
Karhoo is working with the French Railways SNCF to create an innovative new platform Mon Driver to allow passengers on the high-speed trains of the SNCF to book first and last kilometers by taxi or private rental car
Eindhoven-based Censys BV will link the ride orders to Pitane Mobility centers that are equipped with Pitane Mobility Assist version 10 or higher.
French bank specializes in mobility services
Flit Technologies is supported by RCI Bank and Services, a French bank specializing in auto financing and services for the customers and networks of the Groupe Renault (Renault, Renault Samsung Motors, Dacia) worldwide and of the Nissan group (Nissan, Infiniti, Datsun) mainly in Europe, Brazil and South Korea and through joint ventures in Russia and India. In the past two years, RCI Bank and Service has a strategic ambition to become a B2B provider of mobility services to become.
