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Bolt partners with Pranary to expand Accelerator Program in South Africa

Dec 04, 2024•over 1 year ago

Contract Type

partnership

TallinnOtherSoftware

Description

Bolt has extended its economic empowerment initiative, the Bolt Accelerator Program, to South Africa in partnership with Pranary, a practical business school. The program aims to support 10 start-up businesses with a €20,000 seed fund to address tech mobility challenges in South Africa.

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Company

Bolt

Location

268 Bush Street #4214

Tallinn, Harju Maakond, Estonia

About

As a measure of its growth, in August, when the company announced that previous round, it had 75 million customers. Bolt now has more than 100 million customers in 45 countries and 400+ cities using its services. Bolt was founded eight years ago in Tallinn, Estonia (originally as Taxify), with a mission to bring ride hailing to emerging markets and countries where others like Uber had yet to gain a strong foothold, a strategy that it used to expand modestly across regions like Central and Eastern Europe and Africa, in the process attracting investors like China’s Didi — itself having built a massive business in its own home emerging market. (Didi quietly divested its stake in Bolt last year.)Over time, the focus has remained on Europe and Africa, but Bolt found that a lot of its learnings from those first launches could just as easily be applied in more developed countries, with more lucrative payoffs. “We started off in Eastern Europe and Africa because those markets had a bigger need.

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