We’ve reached the end of another year of ups and downs, wins, challenges and breaking new ground. While it’s hard to list all the highlights, here are a couple of milestones we’re celebrating as the year draws to a close:
With the launch of inDrive.Groceries, our superapp went live
For inDrive, this year’s most defining milestones include the launch of our Groceries service in Kazakhstan, kicking off the rollout of our superapp in mid-2025 and marking our evolution into a multipurpose platform offering mobility, delivery, courier, freight, and more.
(Check out this TechCrunch article and read all about it!)
Bigger, better, bolder
At the end of November, we hit a new record of 7+ million rides in one day in ride-hailing – having only achieved our previous record of 6 million rides in May.
We’re also celebrating huge growth in ride and delivery volumes, fuelling expansion in key markets. In the Philippines, for example, we recorded an 8× increase in rides in 2025 vs 2024, and expanded to 7 cities nationwide.
We officially launched in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, beginning with Riyadh and Jeddah, marking a significant expansion in the Middle East.
And, of course, we retained the title as the world’s second-most downloaded app for the third year running!
The future is now
In December we signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ai Driver – a Saudi technology company focused on autonomous mobility and the national official dealer of WeRide – to pilot autonomous-vehicle (AV) ride-hailing in Saudi Arabia (starting with Riyadh, then Jeddah).
This sets a foundation for AV-enabled ride-hailing on our platform.
We put women in the driver’s seat
In Mexico, Colombia and Peru, our “Juntas Llegamos Más Lejos” (Together We Go Further) initiative partnered with local organizations to strengthen the economic autonomy, security, and social inclusion of women by helping them gain their driver's licenses.
In Cape Town, South Africa, we pledged to grow the number of women earning through ride-hailing from 1% - 5% over the next few years, through safety training, community partnerships, and support programs that help women enter and thrive in the industry.
And we gave our drivers more access to financial services
With inDrive.Money already available in Mexico and Colombia, in 2025 we expanded it to Brazil, Indonesia and Peru. This gives drivers on our platform access to emergency loans and other financial services through our app, as many gig workers find it really hard to access these services through traditional means.
inVision programs broke records - and new ground
Some highlights from just three of inDrive’s impact programs:the Aurora Tech Award, which seeks to empower, connect, and support women founders of phenomenal tech startups worldwide, has just announced the 100 female-led startups to go through to the next round of the 2026 Award, following a record 3,400 applications from 127 countries—up from 2,000+ the previous year.
The program strengthened regional ecosystems through founder-VC meetups, accelerators, and training events across India, Egypt, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, LATAM, and Africa. This included Colombia Tech Week’s first female-only pitch event (85 participants), new sessions in Peru and Chile, and bootcamp training for 120 early-stage female startup founders in Nigeria.
Not to be outdone, inDrive’s Alternativa Film Awards announced that their third edition will take place in Medellín from 21 to 30 April 2026. Like the Aurora award, it recorded a new high in global engagement, with 1,831 film submissions from 55 countries. Nearly 75% of entries came from Latin America, followed by Central and Southeast Asia.
And last – but definitely not least, 2025 saw the launch of inVision U’s first Foundation Year program, providing free, problem-based higher education to students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Thirty students are now hard at work developing real projects, including RSL Kazakhstan—the region’s first online platform for teaching sign language—and DataHub, a university admissions service that won 2nd place among 200 IT Fest participants.
The university was also nominated for “Breakthrough of the Year” at the Kazakhstan Growth Forum’s Social Impact Awards and hosted its first international academic forum, “Universities in the Age of AI,” at Satbayev University.
So that was inDrive’s 2025 – or at least, a small part of it. Roll on 2026 and all it brings…
Happy new year!
