Known for letting riders and drivers negotiate fares, inDrive spent the past year adding businesses such as advertising and groceries around its core ride-hailing service. Now the Uber rival is scaling those bets, installing new leaders as its ads, delivery, and financial-services businesses show early signs of traction across its largely emerging-market user base.
inDrive’s advertising business, piloted in July 2025 and rolled out to its top 20 markets in January, has since expanded to 25 markets, serving more than 2 billion impressions and attracting over 2,000 paying advertisers a month, the company told TechCrunch. About two-thirds of those advertisers are repeat customers.
