Wheely, not employees; the company contracts with individual professional chauffeurs. All chauffeurs are required to successfully graduate from Wheely's three-day Academy, which covers service standards, etiquette, discretion, and first aid. Wheely requires chauffeurs to use specific luxury vehicles that are no more than three years old. The company earns 20 percent from each ride. Services Wheely's mobile app is available for the iOS and Android operating systems. To use the service, an individual must download the app, create a user profile and enter their credit card details. Users can book rides in advance or on-demand by using the app to enter starting location and destination. The company has three service classes which use Mercedes-Benz's E-Class, S-Class, and V-Class models, respectively; additionally, Maybach models are used in Russia, as of 2019. There are minimum fees for each class, and final service fees are dependent on distance and time; fixed rates are available for transfers to and from major airports such as Heathrow and Gatwick. Corporate affairs As of 2018, Chirkunov owned 59.6% of the shares in Wheely. Wheely is based in London and has between 3,000 and 3,500 chauffeurs as of April 2019. The company reached 110 million in annualized gross bookings by February 2020. Wheely has approximately 200 employees. Investments Chirkunov initially invested 2.5 million in the company, most of which came from friends and family. Wheely won a 25,000 grant from Start Fellows initiative, which was established by Pavel Durov and Yuri Milner. Wheely also received a grant of () from Russian non-profit . Total investments in Wheely grew to 13 million in 2018. The company raised 15 million in a Series B round led by the venture capital firm Concentric in 2019. Wheely had raised 28 million from investors, as of 2020. Privacy Due to its pro-data privacy stance, Wheely has in the past refused to hand over requests for passenger or journey data to governments. In 2020, the Moscow Department of Transportation demanded that Wheely begins sharing real-time journey data from all the vehicles on its platform. Wheely filed an official complaint with the UK's Information Commissioner's Office, as fulfilling the request would have violated Wheely's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) obligations. Wheely was the only ride-hail company to not provide this data about customers in Russia, which led to a three-month suspension of their Russian subsidiary. Wheely's website offers a page "debunking" official arguments for why