hopcab

A mobile application for price first (fare before trip) cab booking and sharing for fragmented emerging markets.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Travel
  • Location Singapore General Hospital Outram Road Singapore
  • Currency USD
  • Founded September 2010
  • Employees 4
  • Website hopcab.com

Company Summary

Hopcab will execute a simple concept – a price-first, mobile application that enables cab booking and sharing, targeted at fragmented emerging markets.

For drivers: It gives smaller operators/individual drivers a platform to reach passengers, without incurring the cost of a complex booking and dispatch system.

For passengers: It offers safety and reliability, and satisfies the demand for price certainty.

Team

  • Wyn Xuwen Zhang
    CEO

    With a background of academic excellence, including scoring a full 1,600 for her SATs, she graduated from SMU School of Business majoring in Quantitative Finance (QF) and Economics. She was on the path to becoming a banker when she began to develop the idea of Roadhop.

    Apart from her academic achievements, Wyn was elected President of QF Society while dedicating her spare time coaching high students in debate. She has self-taught coding.

  • Kel Qiwen Zhang
    co-Founder

    Kel loves moving things around. She interned at Pacific International Lines in India, going on sales calls to maximise container loads. Her first job in China involved designing an ERP system for shipping goods to retail locations in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and China. Not long after, she furthered her knowledge at Toshiba, where she spent almost four years learning about Just In Time and Vendor Managed Inventory Systems.

Advisors

  • vlc.com.my
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • SPRING Singapore
    Unconfirmed

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