An app that runs errands, at a cost, be it getting a laptop charger or medicines that you forgot home, delivers food from an eatery or helps small businesses reach products to customer premises, is something that a city start-up has launched.
It can undertake common errands and the use cases are unlimited, says Ravi Gollapudi, one of the founders of the Whizzy delivery app. A fleet of delivery staff on two-wheelers would be crucial to the operations.
Ravi Bathi, another founder, added that the company has already onboarded about 15 such ‘Whizzards’ and is planning to hire 10 more.
The focus area of the operation is Cyberabad, which comprises some of the fast-growing localities such as Gachibowli, Financial District and Madhapur. Explaining the logic behind evolving the delivery app, they said the market for such a solution is driven by households with working couples, busy lifestyle, higher disposable income as well as heavy traffic and pollution.
Whizzy, Mr. Gollapudi says, would enable people to focus better on their work and pursue their interests. For small businesses, the facility would help reach out to more customers as well as earn goodwill, he said, citing an example of how a retailer could use the app to home-deliver altered clothes. The service could be accessed at ₹10 per km. It reduces the transportation cost, he says, adding how cabs would prove expensive. “Moreover, a two-wheeler can whiz through traffic.”
Raising investment
The company, according to the two founders, was bootstraped with ₹50 lakh and an equal sum through angel funding. Discussions are under way to raise more investment. They plan to raise ₹2 crore more to grow the business across a larger part of Hyderabad. It would be followed by the company’s foray into Bengaluru market in 2020. “Chennai and Mumbai top the list of tier-I cities that we want to expand subsequently before getting into tier-II locations such as Jaipur and Visakhapatnam,” the founders said at a media interaction here on Wednesday. As it expands, the company would approach venture capital funds, they added.
