Company Information – PillionPal

A transparent overview of PillionPal’s legal identity, mission, operations, and product development — created to provide clarity to partners, institutions, and organizations such as AICTE.

Legal Registration

  • Registered Name: PillionPal
  • Business Type: MSME (Micro Enterprise)
  • Udyam Registration Number: UDYAM-AP-10-0114064
  • Date of Establishment: 01 September 2024
  • Location: Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Email: tech.collegeride@gmail.com

About PillionPal

PillionPal is a mobility-tech startup focused on solving the last-mile commuting problem for students and daily travelers. We connect riders and pillions who travel on the same route and calculate fair trip costs using our innovative FairSplit engine, which considers bike mileage, model, and distance.

Our platform is currently under active development, with ongoing work on the backend APIs, matching engine, cost calculation logic, and the mobile application interface.

Product Development Status

  • • Rider–pillion matching engine: In development
  • • FairSplit cost calculator: Prototype completed
  • • Backend APIs (auth, rides, cost engine): In progress
  • • Mobile App UI/UX: Design stage
  • • Web dashboard: Planned

Internship Structure

PillionPal provides project-based internships designed to give students real exposure to industry workflows. Interns contribute to actual modules of our platform and participate in sprint-based development.

  • • Weekly sprints with tasks delivered via GitHub
  • • Code reviews and progress evaluations
  • • Work on live modules like APIs, UI/UX, matching engine
  • • Direct mentorship from the founder and core developers
  • • Interns receive:
    • PillionPal Experience Certificate
    • AICTE Internship Certificate (via AICTE Portal)

Mission & Vision

Our mission is to make commuting safer, cheaper, and more accessible through technology. Our vision is to become India’s most trusted campus-and-city ride-sharing network with zero exploitation and transparent pricing powered by FairSplit.

Founder

PillionPal is founded by Sri Charan, a Computer Science Engineering student and backend developer who leads product development, backend architecture, intern management, and platform vision.