"Drive it. Own it." - financing the drivers the banks turned away.
Lagos → Amsterdam → the world · Founded 2020
MOOVE, ON THE ROAD - The company finances new vehicles for ride-hailing and delivery drivers who repay through a share of their weekly earnings. Photograph via Moove.
In most of the world, a driver who earns steady money every week can still be told "no." No formal credit history, no collateral, no loan - and so no car of their own. Moove was built on a simple reframing: those weekly earnings are the credit history. The company finances brand-new vehicles for gig-economy drivers and lets them repay through a slice of what they make each week.
Founded in Lagos in 2020 by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi, Moove calls itself the world's first mobility fintech. Its founding premise was a gap the founders put at more than two million African mobility entrepreneurs locked out of vehicle financing. Instead of asking for a bank statement, Moove's underwriting engine reads the data that ride-hailing and delivery platforms already generate - trips completed, revenue booked, patterns of work - and scores drivers on that.
The mechanics are deliberately plain. Moove buys new cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles from manufacturers like Toyota, Hyundai, Suzuki, Volkswagen and Tesla, then finances up to roughly 95% of the price to a vetted driver. Repayment is collected automatically as a percentage of weekly revenue, so a slow week means a smaller payment. At the end of the road, the driver owns the asset rather than renting their livelihood indefinitely.
From a single city, the model traveled. Moove now runs one of the world's largest managed ride-hail fleets - reported at more than 39,000 vehicles across roughly 29 cities - spanning Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Latin America. And in 2024 it added a second act that few saw coming: operating the autonomous fleets of Waymo.
"Moove was founded in response to the challenge faced by over two million African mobility entrepreneurs - the lack of access to vehicle financing."
Moove's customers are mobility entrepreneurs - drivers on ride-hailing platforms like Uber, plus logistics, mass-transit and instant-delivery couriers. They are people with reliable income and no way to prove it to a traditional lender. Moove reports financing tens of thousands of them, and sets explicit targets that the industry usually leaves to chance: half its customer base women, and a majority hybrid or electric fleet.
Vehicle ownership is the difference between working for the platform and working for yourself. But auto loans are built around credit files that gig drivers don't have, and platform-rental schemes can trap drivers in permanent renting. Moove sits in that gap - underwriting the driver on real earnings, financing the vehicle fast, and bundling services like insurance and roadside assistance around it.
Finances up to ~95% of a new vehicle, repaid as a percentage of weekly earnings rather than a fixed installment.
Underwriting built on platform earnings and driver behaviour - approving customers a bank's credit file would reject.
Runs Waymo's all-electric autonomous fleet end to end: dispatch, facilities, charging and maintenance.
Insurance, roadside assistance and health cover bundled around the financed vehicle.
Financing for electric and hybrid vehicles plus charging infrastructure as part of a clean-fleet transition.
New cars, motorcycles and lorries sourced through partnerships with Toyota, Hyundai, Suzuki, Tesla, VW, Bajaj, TVS and more.
Moove buys vehicles from OEM partners and finances them to drivers on partner platforms. It earns a financing margin plus fees, funded through a blend of equity and asset-backed debt. Repayment tied to weekly revenue lowers the chance a driver falls hopelessly behind - and gives Moove a live read on each asset's performance. Increasingly it also earns straight operating revenue as the fleet-operations partner for autonomous players.
That discipline showed up on the balance sheet: Moove reported reaching EBITDA break-even in September 2024, with annual recurring revenue around $115M and public targets pointing much higher.
Rivals typically do one thing - finance cars, or rent them, or run fleets. Moove stitches all three together: it underwrites the driver, owns the asset, and now operates fleets at scale, including driverless ones. Few competitors combine gig-driver financing with autonomous fleet operations. And its data engine is native to the gig economy rather than retrofitted from consumer banking.
| Round | Amount | Date | Key investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed / early | ~$5.5M | 2020 | Speedinvest, Left Lane, Ventura |
| Series A | $23M | Aug 2021 | Speedinvest, Left Lane Capital |
| Series A2 | $105M | Mar 2022 | Equity & debt investors |
| Ghana debt facility | $8M | Jul 2023 | Absa |
| Series B | $100M | Mar 2024 | Uber, Mubadala |
| Debt raise (reported) | ~$1.2B | 2025 | For autonomous-fleet expansion |
Figures compiled from public reporting; 2025 raise and ~$2B valuation are press-reported and approximate.
Delano and Odunsi launch Moove to close the vehicle-financing gap.
Scales its democratized-ownership model across African markets.
Expands into Asia, MENA and Europe.
Secures an $8M facility for West African growth.
$100M at a $750M valuation; reaches EBITDA break-even.
Runs autonomous fleets across US and UK cities; reported $1.2B debt raise.
Lead platform partner and Series B lead investor - Uber's first major investment in Africa.
Moove operates Waymo's all-electric driverless fleet - starting in Phoenix, expanding to Miami, London and beyond.
Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund; investor across recent rounds.
Toyota, Hyundai, Suzuki, Tesla, Volkswagen, Bajaj, TVS and Royal Enfield supply the fleet.
A serial entrepreneur who, with Odunsi, built the Nigerian venture studio Grace Lake Partners before Moove. Educated across LSE, Oxford and MIT.
A former Goldman Sachs banker and McKinsey consultant who partnered with Delano to turn a financing gap into a global mobility fintech.
Moove occupies an unusual seam between fintech, mobility and, increasingly, autonomous infrastructure. On one side sit asset-financing and driver-lending players; on another, fleet operators and platform-native rental schemes. Moove's edge is that it spans them - underwriting drivers with gig-native data, owning and financing the vehicle, and operating fleets at a scale that made it a credible partner for Waymo. Competitors and alternatives include vehicle-financing startups such as Autochek and FlexClub, asset-lenders like PayJoy, and platform rental programs - but the combination of driver financing and driverless-fleet operations is rare.
Moove is a mobility fintech that finances brand-new vehicles for gig-economy drivers, who repay through a percentage of their weekly earnings instead of a traditional loan - a "drive it, own it" model.
It was founded in Lagos, Nigeria in 2020 by Ladi Delano (Co-founder & CEO) and Jide Odunsi (Co-founder).
Moove finances vehicles for Uber drivers - Uber led its $100M Series B - and it operates Waymo's all-electric autonomous fleet, handling dispatch, charging and maintenance across US and UK cities.
It uses alternative credit scoring based on a driver's platform earnings and behaviour rather than a formal credit history, approving people banks typically reject.
Moove operates 39,000+ vehicles across roughly 29 cities and 20+ markets, employs around 550 people, reached EBITDA break-even in 2024, and was valued at about $750M after its 2024 Series B.