Trust before scale
We verify people before we match them, not after something goes wrong. Growth that skips the CNIC check, the licence check or the escrow wallet is growth we will pass on.
Why Karwano exists
Four seats, 1.2 people.
That is the average car in Pakistan’s rush hour: nearly empty, burning petrol at record prices, inching past other nearly empty cars headed the same way. Karwano exists to fill those seats - with verified people, fair fares and a safer road for everyone on it.
1.2people in the average four-seat car on our roads
PKR 270+for a litre of petrol - and rarely falling
Every cityin Pakistan can share the road on Karwano today
Our story
It started with a car park full of single drivers
The road is better shared.
Karwano began in 2025 as a spreadsheet passed around one Karachi office. Same building, same 8:45 start - and a car park of four-seat cars that had each carried exactly one person down Shahrah-e-Faisal. Colleagues started pairing up. Fuel bills dropped. The spreadsheet grew. The hard part, it turned out, was never finding the seats. It was trust.
So we built the trust first and the app second. Every member verifies their CNIC before they can ride. Every driver adds a driving licence and vehicle documents before they can drive. Fares sit in escrow from booking until the ride ends. Live tracking and one-tap SOS run on every trip, and women can choose women-only rides or a female-driver filter. None of it is a premium tier - it is the floor.
Today Karwano carries daily commuters and intercity travellers in every city in Pakistan, with workplace and university groups at the centre of it. Carpooling is chapter one. Karwano Go, on-demand rides at a fare you agree on, is chapter two, and Karwano Eats is being built on the same verified community - one platform for every journey, and every journey better shared.
What we believe
Three things we won’t trade
Every product decision gets tested against these. If a feature grows the numbers but breaks one of them, it doesn’t ship.
Fair to both sides
Drivers recover their fuel money; passengers pay a fraction of ride-hailing fares. Escrow holds the fare from booking until the ride ends, so neither side has to take anyone’s word for it.
Community, not crowd
Workplace and university groups, ratings on both sides, familiar faces on familiar routes. A karwano is a fellow traveller - the product only works if it feels that way.
Roadmap
One platform, every journey
Where the road goes from here - what has shipped, what is in build, and what is still over the horizon.
Carpooling
Verified community carpooling for daily commutes and intercity trips - live in every city in Pakistan. CNIC-verified members, fares held in escrow, live tracking and one-tap SOS on every ride.
Karwano Go
On-demand rides from the same verified community. You name the fare, a nearby verified driver accepts or counters, and you pay from the wallet you already have or in cash - for the days a scheduled carpool doesn’t fit.
Karwano Eats
Food delivery built on the network we have already verified. Order with the wallet you trust, tracked the same way your rides are.
Where you point us
Parcels between cities? School runs? Workplace shuttles? The next stop gets chosen by members - tell us what your journey needs at hello@karwano.com.
Get Karwano
Come share the road
Karwano is live on Android and iPhone across Pakistan. Post your commute or book your first seat in minutes - and put those empty seats to work.
Want to build this with us? We hire in Karachi - hello@karwano.com