Founded by way of Aditya Shivkumar and Joe Al-Khayat, London-based startup Resolve Disputes Online (RDO) helps events settle disputes definitely by using negotiation, mediation & arbitration—without stepping into a bodily court.
You can purchase groceries online. You can even purchase a residence on line and habits notably an awful lot all transactions by way of the internet. But what if we instructed you that you can additionally settle criminal disputes online?
Welcome to the house of on line dispute decision (ODR) and meet Resolve Dispute Online (RDO), a London-headquartered criminal tech platform that helps settle disputes actually by using way of negotiation, mediation and arbitration—without stepping into a bodily court.
The establishing of Resolve Disputes Online
Like most startup basis testimonies go, this one additionally began with a friendship. Law college students Aditya Shivkumar and Joe Al-Khayat met at Cardiff University. Their enthusiasm for representing the students’ pastimes at regulation university as properly as their ardour for mediation made them excellent friends. They have been additionally amongst the youngest candidates to be approved as mediators for the duration of their time in England.
In 2010-11, Aditya and Joe set up a startup known as “Mediate It Online”, which supplied mediation offerings on-line for people in the United Kingdom.
“It failed spectacularly. And I say “spectacularly” due to the fact we learnt a lot from the failure. It failed due to the fact we had been way in advance of time,” says lawyer-turned-entrepreneur Aditya.
The duo stored in contact regardless of practising privately in separate locations—Aditya as a attorney and mediator in Chennai and Joe as a barrister, solicitor, and mediator in London.
Aditya says that both of them have been worried and passionate about “access to justice”. While acknowledged as a necessary proper by using worldwide standards, about “57% of the world’s populace lives outdoor the safe haven of the law”, in accordance to LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a international issuer of legal, regulatory and enterprise data and analytics.
Access to justice for all is a world goal as phase of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal sixteen Aditya and Joe desired to do some thing about the truth that most humans are disconnected from the felony system.
In 2015-16, the duo commenced working on a tech platform to bridge the gap. They registered RDO, a SaaS (software-as-a-service) B2B (business-to-business) startup, in 2017.
Understanding RDO’s enterprise model
Aditya says RDO is the solely on-line dispute resolution association that has been designed and constructed in India to be serving the world B2B segment.
The startup’s tech platform is area agnostic and can be customised to settle all sorts of disputes.
Currently, RDO presents B2B on-line dispute decision offerings by way of partnering with courts, tribunals, governments, corporations and choice dispute decision professionals in the US, the UK, Australia and Southeast Asia.
