Amazon considers investing in Indonesian ride-hailing giant Gojek

Gojek, the ride-hailing giant is currently working to raise $2 billion in its ongoing series F fundraiser before the year-end. The company planned it by increasing capital raising in order to continue expansion into mobile payments and food delivery. Incepted in the year 2015, Gojek debuted its app for booking motorbike taxis in Jakarta. Later, it evolved as the multi-service giant by providing various services such as food delivery services, taxi-hailing services, and other commercial services in a single app. 

While emerging as a super app in Indonesia, it even handled almost $1.5 billion of transactions outside this country. This level of achievement is due to the penetration of its services into the rest of Southeast Asia. Financed by a few prodigious companies like Google and Tencent Holdings Ltd., in early 2019, Gojek proliferated into an international business after setting up shops in countries like Singapore and Vietnam. Though it managed to raise $1 billion, it is still in the hunt for capital. Recently, Amazon is said to be in talks to join the current funding round to strengthen its presence in Southeast Asia. 

Conversely, Gojek’s rival Grab also announced that it would invest $150 million into artificial intelligence research to uplift its own application services. As of now, companies are in a rush to build an all-purpose super app to outsmart other contenders in the market. Moreover, Gojek’s president also announced that it is all set to expand into two more countries by offering a dozen more on-demand services, including medicine delivery, house cleaning, etc. 

As this super app is a new flourishing business, many entrepreneurs are planning to start their own venture by offering a few more commercial services like Gojek. In addition to this, many mobile app development companies have begun to provide Gojek like apps at a reasonable price. Therefore, if you wish to start a business like Gojek, you can just buy the clone script and start building. 

How to start a business like Gojek with low investment

People are no more interested in investing much time and money in developing processes. And so, the evolution of technology has paved the easiest way to build a business soon by offering alternatives like “Clone scripts.” Reach a company that provides the scripts at a low cost and start planning with the developers. 

But before doing all these, ensure that you know the workflow of the application as well as the business. Only once you research and understand the marketing tactics, you can make your app succeed in the market. Never fail to investigate the current demand and prospects at the initial stage. 

Generally, the clone apps come handy with all the inbuilt features, but you must check and customize it based on your requirements. Make sure to build with upgraded technologies to stay relevant in the market.

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