About Angel Taxi in Moscow
Angel Taxi in Moscow and St. Pete (OOO Taxi Angel) is a taxi dispatching service to independently owned and operated vehicles. Angel Taxi in Moscow and St. Pete does not hire drivers but does facilitate placement of taxi orders to independent taxicab operators. Over 900 chauffeurs work with Angel Taxi which works with private and corporate clients and marks its 5th anniversary in 2012.
Taxi in Moscow differs from taxi in St. Pete as the overwhelming majority of companies operating taxi in Moscow charge per hour rather than by mileage, which might make your trip by taxi in Moscow a pricy one against a background of notorious traffic jams in Moscow. Angel Taxi in Moscow does not charge by time, we charge by kilometer, which means the fix fare will not change due to traffic jams. You pay what you have heard when you call us unless you change the route or the driver awaits for you more than 10 gratis minutes.
The founder of the company started his career in organizing Christian pilgrim tours. After a while he left that sphere to earn some money and joined a partner in a taxi business. However, after a corporate dispute as to growth prospects he left the partnership. His relative acted as a business angel and gave him a land plot, which had been bought low, to sell high just before the crisis and thus raised seed capital to finance this company – which is now a leader in charge-per-kilometer sector in Moscow taxi business. When he asked another relative acting as his business angel for the name for the company, the response was “Angel” – to ensure top positions in business directories and to mark the birth of the founder’s baby – an angel, as any baby is.
Business directories are obsolete nowadays, especially in such competitive areas as taxi in Moscow, but the name wrought wonders. Many of the clients are quite enthusiastic about Angel Taxi.
The mass-market approach coupled with good quality and fare fares proved to be sustainable even throughout the financial crisis. The next project is Hotel Angel in Abkhazia to open in summer 2012.
Angel Taxi is honoured to have been selected for European Business Angel Network Congress. We welcome participants and hope they will give an additional momentum to VC and PE spheres in Russia.
