Go-Jek Acquires Indian Healthcare Marketplace Pianta

Go-Jek has again acquired an undisclosed number of startups from India. Different from previous acquisition process which focuses on fixing Back-end Go-Jek, this time the acquired startup is marketplace for a health service named Pianta. For information, Go-Jek itself is a part of the investor group in HaloDoc, an Indonesian startup engaged in the health sector.

Prior to acquiring Pianta, in February 2016 yesterday Go-Jek had acquired two startups from India named C24 Engineering and CodeIgnition. The purpose of the acquisition is to improve the system Back-end Go-Jek who often experience glitch when the user does order.

Meanwhile, the acquisition process for Pianta this time has a different objective, namely to support Go-Jek's move to enter the health sector. Go-Jek itself is an investor HaloDoc, an Indonesian startup engaged in the health sector. Go-Jek collaborating with Pharmacy Antar to provide Go-Med services and this acquisition is expected to strengthen Go-Jek's step into health services on-demand.

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Quoted from ETtech, Go-Jek Engineering India Managing Director Sidu Ponnappa said, “Go-Jek [is] moving to launch a product on-demand health care providers who still have issues in shipping and logistics, while that is Pianta's specialty.”

“Pianta's core team comes from Ola and Flipkart, and their experience in the logistics and payments sector is very much in line with our goals and what we plan to achieve in the coming quarters.”

Pianta was founded in 2015 by Swaminathan Seetharaman (ex-Ola), Ganesh Subramanian (ex-Ola), and Nitin Agarwal (ex-Flipkart) and has received seed funding in an undisclosed amount from Freecharge founders Kunal Shah and Sandeep Tandon earlier this year.

Through this acquisition, eight members of the Pianta team will join engineering center Go-Jek in Bangalore, India. Thus, the number of teams engineering There will be sixty people who will assist Go-Jek's operations in Asia.