If all of the mobility has advanced to digital, why get a driver’s license remains the same as 40 years ago?”. From this question, Enric Romero and his associates began to devise a way to get the permit that was agile and centralizase on the mobile phone. The result has been Dribo, a start-up founded in 2017, which began operating last January and has raised more than 500,000 euros of capital in two rounds of financing. After getting some 22,000 registered users in Barcelona, Dribo begins its expansion phase, with the opening of its application in Madrid (where it already has 2,000 users), and with the sights set on cities such as Seville, Alicante, Valencia, Bilbao or Malaga.
Until now, say the makers of the app, to get a driver’s license had two options: go to the driving school, to attend the classes in the schedules set-up and perform all the procedures by this company, or to take off the theoretical for free and go to driving school just to practice. “Our option is a driving school digitized: we are much more cost-efficient and we offer total flexibility to the student”, explains Enric Romero, ceo of Dribo. It all began, details, in driving school of Òscar Gallo, one of the partners. “We began working to digitize your company, and we saw that we could do something bigger and create a driving school 100 percent digital,” he recalls. “What we do is to adapt the driving to the user. Is simplify a lot of things for the client and with that we want to end up with a lot of bad practice in a sector that Onwin has not evolved,” says Romero.
The first phase of the implementation, which prepares the student for the theoretical exam, is the one that is more advanced. Dribo account with 50,000 users in Spain who, although not have the application operating in your city, you can enter and get ready in the theoretical phase. With a training process that uses the game, boasts that 90% of the users manage to pass the theoretical examination to the first and 99% to the second, so that almost none pay the renewal procedures at the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT). Something that the application allows you to make online.
The practical part is supplemented by an agreement with teachers, self-employed and driving schools, but, for the moment, the start-up has closed a few. Aware that the labor model of Dribo can remember the of Deliveroo, or Glovo, now under the magnifying glass for the Inspection of Work by the doubt whether the relationship that keep workers with the company responds to the figure of the false self, Romero points out that “the teachers are a kind of franchise”. The firm argues that can manage your schedule in a flexible way and that Dribo is committed to fill out the occupancy of the vehicle to secure the income. Account with 14 workers and a small group of teachers, the self-employed. “We have a lot of demand from users and driving schools that want to work with us,” explains Romero, who expects to achieve benefits from 2019.
