Sakhi
Sakhi
“By her, for her”
Sakhi is India's first multi-modal ride -hailing platform, bikes, autos, and cabs - exclusively for women, driven by women. We solve the daily safety-cost trade-off urban working women face, letting them choose speed and safety.
Users registered in the 30 days of pilot
Rides booked during the pilot
Repeat rate during the pilot window
Grew from 300 to 3,800 followers in 4 weeks
The opportunity
Compounding annual growth · 5-year forecast
India total addressable market
Worldwide market opportunity
The global ride-hailing market is a $214B+ category, projected to cross $645B by 2032 at a CAGR of ~14%. India alone is the third-largest and fastest-growing ride-hailing market in the world — expected to hit $15B by 2030 — powered by 500M+ smartphone users and rapidly urbanising Tier-1 and Tier-2 cities. Yet across this entire market, women's safety remains completely unsolved at the structural level.
The brief
Every day, an Indian woman boards a cab, auto, or bike taxi - and immediately starts a mental checklist. Share live location. Text "I've boarded." Watch the map obsessively. Pray the driver doesn't take a wrong turn. And still, harassment happens. Sakhi ends this. A women-only, women-driven transport platform where every driver is a woman - so passengers can simply sit back, put their phone down, and enjoy the ride.
The edge
I started Sakhi with one non-negotiable conviction: the number of women harassed by their drivers every day is not a statistic to be tolerated — it is a problem to be solved, at scale.
Why now
Harassment in ride-hailing is no longer a quiet problem — it is loud, visible, and viral. Women are posting about it, tagging platforms, and the conversation is impossible to ignore. Yet no incumbent has responded with anything beyond an SOS button. These things make this the right moment. Female driver supply in Indian cities is now large enough to recruit from — Sakhi's pilot proved it.
The builder
Krishnavi Parekh
Krishnavi is a qualified actuarial professional with 9 exams cleared from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, and hands-on experience at TATA AIA and Ageas Federal Life Insurance in statutory valuation, risk modelling, and data systems. Her actuarial background is a direct advantage: pricing models, risk assessment, driver profiling, and unit economics are second nature.