Grab and Splyt Technologies are increasing their collaboration to give travellers access to ride-hailing services on a global basis.
While the ride-hailing industry has moved towards consolidation in recent years, it remains a highly fragmented service for global travellers. International visitors often have to download local mobility apps, or rely on traditional curbside taxi-hailing.
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Grab and Splyt already enable international travellers to book Grab rides across 336 cities in eight South East Asian countries through their preferred apps. Ctrip and AliPay customers visiting South East Asia can already take Grab rides through their own apps, via a solution powered and enabled by Splyt.
Splyt is also working with Booking Holdings to integrate ride-booking into their OTA platforms. Booking.com consumers will be able to book Grab rides through the Booking.com app by Q3, 2019.
“As the world’s largest mobility marketplace, we bring providers and platforms together to provide customers with transportation in over 1,000 cities,” said Splyt CEO, Philipp Mintchin.
“Our partnership with Grab is driven by a shared vision of offering mobility that caters to demands and needs of global travellers.”
Grab and Splyt will also work together to give the former’s users access to ride-hailing options everywhere in the world. Targeted for completion next year, this second phase of the partnership will integrate Splyt and Grab’s global network of mobility partners into the Grab app.
Grab users travelling beyond South East Asia can continue to book rides through the Grab app and have them fulfilled by Splyt’s partners. Travellers can use their app in their native language and pay in their home currency.
Grab also plans to add features such as in-app travel tips, restaurant reviews and attraction recommendations.
As part of Splyt’s recent US$8m Series A funding round, Grab has also invested into Splyt. The investment will be used to accelerate Splyt’s expansion into new markets, improve its proprietary technology and strengthen its wide network of institutional demand and supply partners for ground-based transportation.
The round brings the total raised by Splyt Technologies to more than US$14m.
