{
  "id": 16567181,
  "title": "Rapido rides ahead with Razorpay’s real‑time payments",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/rapido-rides-ahead-with-razorpays-real-time-payments",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-26T05:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "YourStory",
    "slug": "yourstory",
    "url": "https://yourstory.com/2026/10/rapido-rides-ahead-with-razorpays-realtime-payments"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "India’s bustling cities have long faced transportation challenges: costly cab rides, crowded public transit, and a lack of affordable last-mile connectivity. In 2015, Aravind Sanka, Pavan Guntupalli, and SR Rishikesh founded Rapido with a simple, innovative solution: bikes. Bikes can navigate through traffic, reach lanes inaccessible to cars, and do so at a fraction of the cost of traditional taxis. Starting in Bengaluru with just a handful of drivers, Rapido grew to become India’s largest bike taxi platform, operating in over 400 cities and processing millions of rides daily.\n\nAt this scale, every second is critical. Each ride booking is a micro-transaction that must clear instantly. A failed payment can disrupt a rider’s commute and result in lost earnings for drivers. To ensure reliable, real-time transactions, Rapido partnered with Razorpay. With Razorpay’s infrastructure, Rapido could guarantee consistent, high-performance payments processing. Razorpay’s UPI success rate consistently exceeds 98%, and it processes over 150,000 transactions monthly without any disruption.\n\nAravind Sanka, Rapido’s co-founder, praised Razorpay’s role: \"Razorpay’s infrastructure has been core to our ability to scale, and the performance speaks for itself. It has helped us deliver the payment experience our riders and Captains expect: fast, reliable, and built for scale.\" As Rapido expands into autos, cabs, and delivery services, Razorpay’s dependable payments platform remains essential for keeping every ride moving smoothly across India.",
  "summary": "Rapido rides ahead with Razorpay’s real‑time payments Getting around an Indian city has always been harder than it should be. Cabs were expensive, public transport was overcrowded, and for millions of daily commuters, the last mile remained unsolved. When Aravind Sanka, Pavan Guntupalli, and SR",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}