Zoomcar partners with Bureau to strengthen real-time user verification and fraud risk assessment

BENGALURU, India, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoomcar Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: ZCAR), India's largest peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace, today announced partnership with Bureau, a global unified risk decisioning platform to strengthen user verification and real-time fraud risk assessment across its digital platform.

Through the partnership, Bureau helps Zoomcar verify and assess users in real time, providing additional risk intelligence that can support informed decisions throughout the user journey. The solution is designed to help Zoomcar identify potentially suspicious activity earlier, strengthen its existing fraud prevention measures, and maintain a seamless experience for genuine users.

As digital platforms scale, businesses need to balance trust, safety and user experience. Verifying users at different stages of their journey and identifying potentially risky behaviour early can help businesses prevent fraud while reducing unnecessary friction for legitimate customers.

Bureau's platform brings together multiple signals and intelligence to assess users and identify patterns associated with potentially fraudulent or suspicious activity. The resulting  assessment can be incorporated into existing business workflows, allowing organizations to apply appropriate levels of verification and scrutiny based on the level of risk.

Speaking about the partnership, Ranjan R. Reddy, Founder and CEO, Bureau, said, "Trust is fundamental to every digital platform, and user verification is an important part of building that trust. As businesses scale, they need the ability to assess users in real time and identify potential risks without adding unnecessary friction to genuine users. We are helping Zoomcar bring greater intelligence into the user journey so that the problem can be identified earlier and decisions can be made with greater confidence."

Zoomcar operates a two-sided digital marketplace that connects vehicle owners and customers through its platform. As these interactions grow in scale and frequency, maintaining consistent standards for user verification becomes increasingly important. The partnership adds contextual intelligence to Zoomcar's existing processes, supporting its approach to building a reliable and scalable digital marketplace.

Vishal Ramrakhyani, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Zoomcar, said, "Building a trusted platform requires us to continuously strengthen how we verify and assess users while keeping the experience simple and seamless. Bureau provides us with an additional layer of risk intelligence that supports our existing verification and safety measures and helps us make more informed decisions as our platform continues to scale."

The collaboration reflects a broader shift in how digital businesses are approaching identity and fraud. Instead of relying only on information available at a single point of interaction, businesses can draw on signals across the digital environment to develop a more contextual understanding of activity. This enables teams to respond differently to different levels of exposure, while keeping routine experiences straightforward for genuine users.

For digital marketplaces, this approach can become increasingly relevant as platforms bring together more users, transactions and interactions within a single ecosystem. The partnership between Bureau and Zoomcar represents a move towards more contextual and continuous decisioning, helping digital businesses strengthen their controls as their platforms and operating environments evolve.

About Bureau

Bureau is a global unified risk decisioning platform that helps businesses move from account-level defense to network-level intelligence. Founded in 2020 by Ranjan R. Reddy, Bureau helps organizations prevent digital fraud, meet evolving compliance requirements, and manage identity-driven risk in real time. Headquartered in San Francisco, with an established presence across APAC, MENA, Europe, and North America.

About Zoomcar

Zoomcar is founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bengaluru, Zoomcar is India's largest peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace. Through its digital-first platform, Zoomcar connects individual vehicle owners (Hosts) with users (Guests), offering flexible access to vehicles for self-drive carsharing. The company's mission is to promote smarter, shared mobility that is both economically empowering and environmentally sustainable.

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