TangoRide’s founder, Vish Balyan, is the heart and soul of the platform with the ambition for the app to answer many challenges facing society including, sustainable transport,  pollution,  car ownership costs and wellbeing in community.

Vish started life in India, completing a Bachelor of Commerce before moving to Australia at the age of 20 to further his education, earning a Graduate Diploma in Information and a Master’s degree in Finance. With a keen interest in world affairs, history, geography, environment, technology and financial markets, he continued to look to the horizon for a career path that would give him a purpose of making a difference.

During his studies, he worked as taxi driver in Melbourne which he soon began to appreciate and credit as his best learning experience from meeting people from every part of society. These interactions taught him an immeasurable amount of humility and endearing values that have shaped his views in the strength of community, environmental stewardship, and the need for sustainability in the use of resources.

Vish soon entered the finance space, spending most of his time serving the automotive industry. All the while, he had become increasingly observant of the needs of families and individuals. Empathising with their concerns of cost living, he started to recognise an emerging problem where families were having to buy a car or second car because there were inadequate transport hubs and transport options in their area.

Reflecting on this, he had for some time followed emerging companies like Uber, Ola, Bla Bla car and several other companies in the transportation industry, because he was impressed by how much more they had made life more convenient for customers.

However, he also realised over time the convenience started to become more expensive as the business started to grow and sign-up perks started to dry up with people getting addicted to these services and equity infusions slowly going away. 

He found their business model wasn’t sustainable monetarily and environmentally. The emerging rideshare platforms were neglecting the biggest resource – single driver occupant vehicles. 

The other issue was, the likes of Uber and Lyft also had increased traffic in cities like LA, London and NY due to their drivers driving around waiting for passengers or driving vacant to pick up a passenger. This was adding to the net problem of rising emissions.

Looking at the problem with another set of problems to overcome, Vish headed to the drawing board to draft up a solution that could meet the transport needs of commuters, while keeping costs low, while not increasing the amount of traffic. 

The idea started to take shape and along with it, a technology that would provide a sound platform to make it all work seamlessly.

Vish had determined the new carpooling app would address the old problems of carpooling and the new problems found with the latest ‘convenient’ transport. What’s more, it was going to be for non-commercial use and be a new solution to sustainable transport, focusing on connecting short to medium to long distance travel for commuters. The technology employed would provide real-time matching with great security features.

Assembling a team together, Vish began the initial development of the App in 2017 with a UK investor who quickly became his ally and great support base to continue the journey of building the TangoRide app.

In late 2019, TangoRide launched a pilot program in the UK as a final development test of the app before postponing further public use when the Covid pandemic was announced.

Gathering an international team during 2020/2021, TangoRide resumed development so it would be ready for launch in Scotland and the UK for 2022.