Company: ZCARW
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001213900-25-039778
Chunk: 12

Company: Zoomcar Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: S-1
Chunk 12
---
 which India accounts for $36 billion, making India the most important market for us. The opportunity around the growing total addressable market is further described under the heading “ Market Opportunity” below. Already present in over 94 cities across India, we plan to continue evolving our platform offerings to meet Guests’ mobility needs in ways that are convenient, modern and cost-efficient, providing both transportation solutions and entrepreneurship opportunities within the communities where we operate. Our business model has evolved since our inception, as our platform originally offered short-term rental of vehicles owned or leased directly by Zoomcar. Between 2018 and 2020, we began shifting the focus of our technology and product development efforts towards capabilities relevant to our current “asset-light” business model focused on our digital platform for peer-to-peer car sharing. We completed our business model shift during the second half of 2021. Over time, we have expanded our platform’s functionality, and we continue to evolve our offerings as consumer preferences change. We expanded our business outside of India in 2021 to Indonesia, Egypt and Vietnam. After carefully managing return on investment in these markets, we confirmed that our business model fits the needs of customers in Indonesia, Vietnam and Egypt, however, scaling in these countries requires investments in marketing which we do not currently have capital to achieve. Accordingly, we decided to cease operations in Vietnam in 2023, and in Indonesia and Egypt in 2024, so that we can concentrate our engineering and financial resources in India. Over time, Zoomcar plans to further increase penetration within India and, in the future, to expand into additional countries, subject to our financial condition. 1 Our Platform Zoomcar’s marketplace is 100% asset-light; all vehicles available through the platform are provided by third-party “Hosts” who are able to earn money by sharing their vehicles for use by “Guests” who book rentals on the platform. Since Zoomcar’s inception, approximately 7.213 million bookings have been completed on its platform. This platform-based, peer-to-peer business model, through which revenues are allocated between Zoomcar and vehicle hosts, is broadly similar to disruptive business models being employed in the hospitality, real estate and other industries to facilitate cost-effective, efficient and user-friendly ways to connect people and resources to solve problems. Industry and Consumer Preferences Our platform is designed around consumer preferences and aims to provide smart transportation solutions within urban communities across emerging market countries. Mobility options are currently limited in the markets we serve and the transportation options that are currently available are often outdated, expensive