Careem, the UAE-based super app owned by Uber, has launched a new corporate payments solution designed to simplify how businesses manage expenses across its range of services, expanding beyond its existing corporate rides platform.
The new service, offered through Careem for Business, allows companies to pay for employee expenses across rides, food, groceries and deliveries from a single account, removing the need for traditional reimbursement and expense-claim processes.
Finance teams can now track spending in real time through a centralised dashboard that consolidates usage across departments and services. Companies can also set spending limits by category, department or even time of day, while employees can toggle to a “Business” mode in the app to make purchases under company allowances.
“Submitting expense reports and reimbursements can be a headache for employees, office managers, and finance teams,” said Bassel Al Nahlaoui, Careem’s Chief Business Officer. “Careem for Business removes that burden by giving companies a simple, transparent way to manage work-related expenses.”
The move marks Careem’s latest push to diversify its business model and deepen engagement with corporate clients, after earlier success in offering ride-hailing solutions to sectors such as banking and telecommunications. The company said its rides platform had already facilitated over one million corporate bookings.
By integrating services including Careem Rides, Food, Quik, Shops and Box, the Dubai-based platform becomes the first in the Middle East to provide a unified business account covering transport, food delivery, grocery and logistics.
Careem, founded in 2012 and acquired by Uber in 2019, has sought to grow beyond ride-hailing into what it calls a “super app” ecosystem, spanning digital payments, retail delivery and mobility services across regional markets.