At the time West Bengal was struggling hard as an investor-friendly destination, state-based logistics solution startup, TYGR app was set to roar in the matured markets like US, European countries besides India and aimed to become a game changer in the industry.
"In the international markets, we are in talks with Mayors of Montreal and Toronto in US and European Logistics Association to launch the app in a few EU countries shortly. Talks are also been held to launch our app in UK cities of London and Cardiff," TYGR app co-founder& MD Dipanjan Purkayastha told PTI.
"In the domestic market, we have divided India into 33 regions each containing 10 sub-regions or clusters. We have begun to appoint franchisees in a tieup with Franchise India," he said.
Bouyant to get classified as a top five product start-ups by IT industry body Nasscom, co-founder and CEO Aditya Poddar said, "We are a product company, we will empower the vehicles to transform to get business online with complete control on their cashflow for a small fee or a meagre share of their revenue.
The app to automate all vehicles in the logistics verticle like cabs, delivery service, trucks, buses, ambulances and other speciality vehicles on a single platform, he added.
In India alone the roadway logistics is a USD 150 billion industry - of which USD 30 billion is from last mile connectivity.
The FB statup company claimed that in the last four months they were using Kolkata as trial with 500 bikes and 2000 cabs including yellow taxis.
"In Kolkata, we aim to 'appify' 5000 vehicles (including cargo trucks) while across the country 10,00,000 vehicls were under the app," Poddar said.
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