In this part of the world when you hear “ride-sharing app”, you think Taxify and Uber. But i’d like to burst your ‘bubble’, a startup called Didi Chuxing is leading the race at the moment.

Didi Chuxing is a popular ride-sharing app in China that was formerly known as Didi Kuaidi. They specialize in AI and autonomous technology and was founded by Cheng Wei. Didi Chuxing is providing transportation services for more than 500 million users across over 350 cities in China. It has been a common phenomenon that brands making waves in the Asia market hit amazing numbers compared to their competitors in other regions due to the population and market available in Asia. Last year Apple has lost its position as the second-biggest smartphone maker in the world to Asian power horse Huwaei.

What makes Didi Chuxing different from rivals Uber, Taxify and Lyft is scale. The company boasts of 400 million registered customers in more than 400 cities in China, it also delivers more than 20 million rides a day, that is roughly twice as many as Uber and all the other global sharing apps combined.

Liu Qing is the President of Didi Chuxing, the company which she joined in 2014. Since then Liu has gone to become China’s most prominent female tech executive, as she has won lots of admirers for the company rapid growth and her own personal fight against breast cancer in 2016. Liu studied computer science at Harvard.



Didi Chuxing latest success came when it raised $4bn in an investment round last year, which increased the company’s total haul last year to $10m. This deal gave Didi a huge boost in it’s competition with Uber as it claimed the top spot for the world’s most valuable startup in place of Uber. In truth this was made possible due to Uber having a bad year full of sexual allegations on its platform as SoftBank valued the company at $48 billion—or 30% lower than previously.

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