Who co-founded Ola Consumer with Bhavish Aggarwal?

Bhavish Aggarwal co-founded Ola Consumer with Ankit Bhati. The company began as Ola Cabs, an Indian taxi-aggregation business that connected passengers with drivers through technology rather than owning a traditional taxi fleet.

Aggarwal originally established Olatrip.com, a trip-planning venture, in 2010. In January 2011, he and Bhati shifted toward on-demand cab bookings after identifying growing demand for more convenient urban transportation. Ola initially accepted bookings by phone before introducing a mobile application in June 2012.

Bhati is sometimes confused with later Ola executives, investors, or founders of other Indian technology companies. The competing names in this question are associated with different businesses: Vijay Shekhar Sharma founded Paytm, Rahul Yadav co-founded Housing.com, and Nadiem Makarim founded Gojek.

Ola expanded beyond car rides over time, adding auto-rickshaw and bike services, acquiring TaxiForSure in 2015, and entering food delivery through Foodpanda India. In August 2024, Ola Cabs was rebranded as Ola Consumer to reflect its broader consumer-services ambitions.