Tag: Ankush Nijhawan

  • Travel Boutique Online (TBO) acquires strategic equity in Deyor Camps

    Travel Boutique Online (TBO) acquires strategic equity in Deyor Camps

    MUMBAI: Travel Boutique Online has taken strategic equity in Deyor Camps, founded by Dheeraj Jain(Redcliffe Capital), Chirag Gupta, Aakaar Gandhi and Gautam Yadav, to meet the demands of unorganized sector of adventure travel market in India. The teams of Deyor Camps & TBO will work closely to sell campsites offered by Deyor Camps through vast network of TBO.

    Travel Boutique Online, backed by Naspers is India’s largest B2B travel portal with more than 19,000 travel agents who are actively involved in selling their travel solutions. TBO enables its partners to serve their customers efficiently with the right pricing and inventory. With strategic equity in Deyor Camps, TBO will now create unique advantage for its partners by enabling them to sell branded campsites at more than 45 locations in India.

    “Deyor Camps has been instrumental in sending 10,000 people for camping during its 1st quarter of operations. We have already become the preferred travel partners for backpacker groups, Biker Groups travelling to Leh-ladakh and Lahaul Spiti over the course of the summer. We want to further extend our offerings to every person who is looking to spend their holidays in midst of nature or simply wants to discover something new and adventurous. With TBO as our strategic partner, we will be able to reach out to its well – established database of consumers who trust TBO and its travel agents,” said Dheeraj Jain from Redcliffe Capital.

    Speaking on this, Travel Boutique Online MD Ankush Nijhawan too said, “We are excited to announce our strategic equity in Deyor Camps, as the value proposition offered by Deyor Camps is unmatched in this market.”

    “We are just a few days away from launching a technology platform, which will make booking camping trips as simple as booking a hotel room, hence, structuring a highly fragmented sector. We will have a dedicated team at Deyor, who will serve the requests received from TBO and to ensure transactions smoothly,” said Deyor Camps co founder Chirag Gupta.

  • Travel Boutique Online (TBO) acquires strategic equity in Deyor Camps

    Travel Boutique Online (TBO) acquires strategic equity in Deyor Camps

    MUMBAI: Travel Boutique Online has taken strategic equity in Deyor Camps, founded by Dheeraj Jain(Redcliffe Capital), Chirag Gupta, Aakaar Gandhi and Gautam Yadav, to meet the demands of unorganized sector of adventure travel market in India. The teams of Deyor Camps & TBO will work closely to sell campsites offered by Deyor Camps through vast network of TBO.

    Travel Boutique Online, backed by Naspers is India’s largest B2B travel portal with more than 19,000 travel agents who are actively involved in selling their travel solutions. TBO enables its partners to serve their customers efficiently with the right pricing and inventory. With strategic equity in Deyor Camps, TBO will now create unique advantage for its partners by enabling them to sell branded campsites at more than 45 locations in India.

    “Deyor Camps has been instrumental in sending 10,000 people for camping during its 1st quarter of operations. We have already become the preferred travel partners for backpacker groups, Biker Groups travelling to Leh-ladakh and Lahaul Spiti over the course of the summer. We want to further extend our offerings to every person who is looking to spend their holidays in midst of nature or simply wants to discover something new and adventurous. With TBO as our strategic partner, we will be able to reach out to its well – established database of consumers who trust TBO and its travel agents,” said Dheeraj Jain from Redcliffe Capital.

    Speaking on this, Travel Boutique Online MD Ankush Nijhawan too said, “We are excited to announce our strategic equity in Deyor Camps, as the value proposition offered by Deyor Camps is unmatched in this market.”

    “We are just a few days away from launching a technology platform, which will make booking camping trips as simple as booking a hotel room, hence, structuring a highly fragmented sector. We will have a dedicated team at Deyor, who will serve the requests received from TBO and to ensure transactions smoothly,” said Deyor Camps co founder Chirag Gupta.

  • News In Short raises Rs 127 crore in Series B funding

    News In Short raises Rs 127 crore in Series B funding

     

    MUMBAI: News In Shorts, a startup that launched the India based mobile news app has raised Rs 127 crore from its existing venture capital investor Tiger Global in Series B funding. With this, the company, according to the Economic Times, is now valued at about Rs 570-Rs 635 crore.  

     

    Founded by IIT dropouts Azhar Iqubal, Deepit Purkayastha and Anunay Arunav, News In Shorts is a news publishing app that curates the top 60 news story of the day and crunches them into 60 word shorts for the readers. Its launch was actively backed by funding from Times Internet, mentors Ankush Nijhawan, Gaurav Bhatnagar and Manish Dhingra.

     

    The app had crossed over 100,000 downloads for iOS and Android by February. “It is these increases, which directly led to this new funding round from Tiger Global,” News In Shorts co-founder Purkayastha informed techcrunch.com.

     

    The co-founder further stated that this round of Series B capital will be primarily used to enhance their Android app, since the Google-owned platform accounts for around 80 per cent of mobile devices in India.

     

    The report also highlights the editorial team’s plans on working on a number of new additions, including a personalization engine that predicts user’s interests, and a feature to allow users to express and share opinions on news via the service.

     

    “The only focus that we have right now is to make sure that the app runs smoothly on lower-end smartphones as well,” News In Shorts co-founder and CEO Azhar Iqubal told The Economic Times.

     

    The startup hit the headlines earlier this year after it received Series A funding of Rs 25 crore from Tiger Global, with participation from Japan’s Rebright Partners and Flipkart’s Bansals.