RIDE 8294 is Founded by entrepreneur Samrawit Fikru (CEO at Hybrid Designs) , who successfully led the company for the past 11 years to create one of the most recognized brands in Ethiopia

About Us

Mission

We provide safe, reliable, and fast transportation services to Africa to improve quality of life and connect people to opportunity.

Vision

“To be a global player in the transport industry, with a focus on Africa, connecting people to opportunities and improving their quality of life.”

Our Core Values

Our History

2014
2014

Foundation of RIDE

Hybrid Designs PLC entered the RIDE hailing market in 2014 with a vision to make transportation in the caital safe, affordable and convenient through technology.

2019
2019

Increase Market

Our company is always delighted to make Addis Ababa dynamic and exciting to visitors, local residents and business owners by providing a highest quality service at all times, indiscriminately. Individual passengers and company owners routinely appreciate RIDE extensive trip reporting and finance-consolidating tools, as they help to manage periodical budgets efficiently in real time. Our core value is centered on a complete accountability and transparency approach, which makes us trusted by business partners and clients across the city.
2021
2021

Leading Innovation

Our company is always delighted to make Addis Ababa dynamic and exciting to visitors, local residents and business owners by providing a highest quality service at all times, indiscriminately. Individual passengers and company owners routinely appreciate RIDE extensive trip reporting and finance-consolidating tools, as they help to manage periodical budgets efficiently in real time. Our core value is centered on a complete accountability and transparency approach, which makes us trusted by business partners and clients across the city.

Our Core Competency

Operational Excellence

We strive to perform with high efficiency

Technological Advancement

We are always on the top of current technologies

Safe and Excellent Service

We have “Customer First” approach

Fast and Profitable Growth

We are on a long term play

Corporate Social Responsibility

We believe in the concept “From the community to the community” because we are part of the community

Ride For The Community

Hybrid Designs PLC entered the RIDE hailing market in 2014 with a vision to make transportation in the caital safe, affordable and convenient through technology.

Yellow and Black Staffing

We have 300+ full time employees where 70% of them are in RIDE Contact Center.

We have 50+ Contractual part time employees

90% of our Staff is composed of Female professionals

Partners

Our company is proudly a partner of multi-billion dollars corporations, aligning itself to successfully drive the Ethiopian GIG economy.

Clients

We serve over 3 million individual customers and 400+ corporate accounts

We have 50+ restaurants in our food catalog

We have 70k+ Drivers in our platforms

Where will we
be in the
Future

Create ecosystem of digital services to make living simple in Ethiopia and beyond.

Contact Center

Customer Support

Handling customer queries to provide a smooth service

Booking, Sales and retention

We push outbound calls to increase sales and usage frequency while we handle incoming calls to book rides

Employee Performance Monitoring and Training

We make sure that call handling standardization is well executed

Contact Center Outsourcing

We leverage our expertise to help other organizations.

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