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When I formed Queen’s Gambit, I knew that bringing together a team of highly successful and strategically minded women would break barriers in a multitude of ways. We pooled our collective expertise and expansive global networks, and set out to find a target that met specific criteria – a tech-enabled, highly disruptive, and sustainable platform with the potential to deliver significant returns for all stakeholders. In Swvl, we have found each of those things and more.
For those not yet familiar with Swvl, they are actively redefining mass transit for underserved populations around the world, with a cutting-edge, proprietary technology platform. Swvl has effectively built a parallel mass transit system that offers intercity, intracity, B2B and B2G transportation.
Mass transit is a 1 trillion dollar global opportunity. For many people it represents the only viable form of transportation, yet too frequently it comes up short. In certain emerging market cities, inconvenient station access, unreliable pick up and drop off times, poor safety standards, and the persistent risk of harassment for female riders means people cannot reliably get where they need to, when they need to.
That is where Swvl comes in. Swvl taps into an under-utilized fleet of privately owned, high-quality vehicles to form a parallel mass transit system, catering to daily intra-city and inter-city commutes. The company also provides customized TaaS solutions for schools, businesses, and transit agencies, allowing those organizations to provide reliable, convenient, affordable and safe transportation to their communities. Swvl has already enabled more than 100 organizations from around the world to reduce transportation costs and access Swvl’s compelling mobility solutions across the mass transit landscape.
Having established a leadership position in, what we believe to be, some of the most challenging emerging markets across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, we are confident that Swvl is now ready to expand access to its transformative offerings globally.
Our proposed transaction is expected to generate gross proceeds of up to approximately 420 million dollars, which will be used to fund and accelerate Swvl’s growth plan. The Company has a clear strategic plan and objective of achieving 1 billion plus dollars in annual gross revenue and operating in 20 countries on 5 continents by 2025.
We also believe Swvl represents a compelling investment opportunity based on its strong ESG principles. As we have said before, Queen’s Gambit believes that diversity in business is essential to long-term value creation, and fostering diversity requires empowering traditionally under-resourced populations to succeed. Swvl understands how limiting life can be for those who cannot easily leave their homes, who cannot go where they want to go, when they want to go. And the company is solving for these global challenges in a way that no other mobility company is.
With affordable, convenient and safe transportation offerings, Swvl is helping realize social and economic equity for all, while emphasizing safety and opportunity, not to mention the thousands of employment opportunities across emerging markets that they have already created. Swvl is also helping to reduce the carbon footprint of megacities. Since inception, Swvl estimates that its platform has reduced congestion by an estimated 14.4 million person-hours, and prevented approximately 245 million pounds of CO2 emissions relative to single rider options. And we should recognize that Swvl has accomplished all this in only four short years – with what we believe to be an amazing trajectory moving forward.
As you can sense, I and the entire Queen’s Gambit team of accomplished female professionals, believe strongly that Swvl is a one-of-a-kind company. Each and every day, Swvl’s proprietary technology is solving for big problems. The company is already transforming mass transit, with a proven track record of impressive growth and unit economics. We look forward to helping Swvl realize its global potential by leveraging our team’s collective expertise and network.
Given that Agility has made a significant capital commitment in Queen’s Gambit and the combined company, and operates in many of Swvl’s key markets, we believe there may be potential opportunities for Swvl and Agility to collaborate strategically and operationally moving forward.
Now, it’s my pleasure to turn the call over to Mostafa Kandil, co-founder and CEO of Swvl.