Pathao

Pathao (Bengali: পাঠাও, Nepali: पठाओ); is a Bangladeshi on-demand digital platform company headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

[15] Later in 2016, Pathao started bike-sharing services in mid-2016 and successfully signed up more than 100,000 drivers and around 1 million users in March 2018 across the country.

Pathao is the first Bangladeshi company to offer On-demand Transport Sharing services abroad.

[citation needed] Pathao provides on-demand ride-sharing services through motorcycles, cars and tuktuks.

Both the driver and the passenger is required to have an Android or iOS-based, internet and GPS-enabled, smartphone to avail Pathao's service.

Pathao uses a location based system to match the passenger with a driver nearby heading towards the destination.

A report published by a local news agency claimed that Bangladesh Bank denied Pathao to launch a Closed Payment Service.

In a statement, Pathao Co-founder, Hussain M. Elius said that "We had faced a problem as we started the service as a closed wallet.

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