About us

What if your everyday commute didn’t have to be a solo trip?

Carvya is building a shared-mobility network around real city routes — starting in Pune — so getting to work, campus or home can cost less, take fewer cars, and feel a little more human.

The problem we keep seeing

Every weekday, Pune fills with the same picture: one person, one car, the same corridor, the same jam. Seats travel empty. Fuel burns twice. Time disappears in Baner, Wakad, Hinjawadi and every other stretch that already knows the route by heart.

Shared rides already happen — a colleague, a neighbour, a WhatsApp group. They just don’t scale. Matching is messy, trust is unclear, and most people give up and drive alone. Carvya exists to make sharing a trip as obvious as unlocking your phone.

Our mission

Move people, not empty seats.

A city has millions of journeys happening at roughly the same time. We connect the ones that already line up — so a ride you were going to take anyway can carry more than one life forward.

Our vision

Affordable movement. Lighter streets.

Transportation should not be a luxury tax on getting to class or the office. Fill the seats that are already moving, and traffic eases as a side effect — not as a slogan.

What “move together” actually means

Three promises sit under the product. They are why Carvya is being built in the first place.

Make it affordable

Split the trip you were already taking. Lower the cost of showing up — to work, college or home — without turning commuting into a taxi bill.

Take cars off the peak

Fewer one-person vehicles on the same corridor means less congestion, less idle time, and a city that breathes a little easier at 9am.

Keep it human

Matching should feel like finding someone going your way — with clear trip details, profile signals and support if something feels off.

Why Pune first?

A dense mix of residential areas, business districts, campuses and daily cross-city commutes makes Pune a natural place to prove a route-first product.

Local first

Build around real routes and habits instead of designing for an abstract city.

Network effects

Every useful match makes the platform more valuable for the next commuter.

City by city

Prove the model locally, then adapt it to the patterns of new cities.

The person building it

Carvya started with one student who treated traffic as a design brief.

Founder

Siddhesh Patil

“If the car is going there anyway, the empty seats are the waste — not the people who need a ride.”

Siddhesh is an engineering student and a first-time founder building Carvya while still in college. He sits in the same Pune traffic as everyone else — and decided the answer was not another expensive cab, but a network that fills journeys already happening.

He sketches product on the commute home: carpool for the longer corridors, bikepool for the short hops, office commute for teams that leave from the same neighbourhoods every morning. The bet is simple — make shared mobility affordable enough that people actually choose it, and the city gets lighter traffic as a result.

RoleFounder

AlsoEngineering student

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