Back Portfolio / Grab

SSIO – I

GRAB is India’s leading technology led hyper-local logistics player. Grab provides a seamless tech platform to enable last-mile delivery. It’s services encompasses restaurants, food tech companies, e-commerce platforms, laundry services, grocery platforms, pharmacy stores, & logistics aggregators. Having partnered with 450+ merchants across 7 cities, and delivering over 4000+ orders per day, GRAB is poised to leverage on the underlying “on-demand services play” which is beginning to explode in India. Recently, Zomato made a strategic investment in Grab to spruce up its delivery process, online restaurant directory and food ordering. With Zomato betting big on food delivery and targeting 100,000 orders per day, Grab is poised to see immense leverage benefits from its strategic partnership.

Grab has a young and aggressive team led by 3 co-founders – Pratish, Nishant and Jignesh. Pratish focuses on merchant acquisition and retention and is also spearheading the technology initiative. An MBA from Drexel University, Philadelphia prior to Grab he spent 7 years at BlackRock across US, UK & India. Nishant heads overall operations and is responsible for Grab’s expansion strategy and rider recruitment and retention. Nishant is an Industrial Engineer from Mohawk College, Canada and prior to Grab, he spent a year at the Toyota Facility in Toronto working on the lean production practices. Jignesh oversees process implementation and quality control. Jignesh is an Electronics Engineer from VIT University, Pune.