Obilet came to the fore with the investment it received from BlaBlaCar in the same month of this year. Now it is known that BlaBlaCar will buy shares of Obilet. The statement of the Turkish Competition Authority reads as follows:
"The purchase of all shares of Obilet Bilişim Sistemleri AŞ by Comuto SA was authorized."
Although the statement of the Turkish Competition Authority does not say "all shares", according to the information given to us by Obilet, only the majority of the shares will be bought.
Comuto SA is known as BlaBlaCar. It should be noted that the application for the purchase of shares was made for the first time in July.
Founded in 2012, local startup Oblet allows you to compare and buy travel and booking options offered by hundreds of buses, airlines, bars, hotels and car rental companies. With more than 40 million ticket and reservation transactions in the province, Obilet also provides B2C services, ticket information sharing to B2B business partners and ticket sales system (IMS - Inventory Management System) services to bus companies.
Based in France, BlaBlaCar brings together drivers and riders, especially for intercity trips, providing ride sharing opportunities to 27 million active users in 21 countries.
It was founded in April 2012 by Ali Yilmaz and Yiğit Gürocak. The head office of the startup is in Istanbul. Obilet or obilet.com is an online Bus ticket search portal that brings together Bus companies in Turkey. It sells flight tickets from 2017 and tickets from 2021. From 2022, it started offering online hotel reservation and car rental products to its users.
