Showing posts with label comfortable bus services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comfortable bus services. Show all posts
Monday, 6 July 2015
Sunday, 5 July 2015
YatraGenie.com to raise $25 mn for expansion
The company had earlier raised $5 mn in a Series-A round of funding
K Rajani Kanth | Hyderabad
YatraGenie.com, an online bus ticketing and cab booking platform run by Bengaluru-based Paxterra Software Solutions, is in the process of raising $25 million (approximately Rs 158 crore) in a Series-B round of funding to fuel its expansion plans, according to its president and chief executive officer Renil Komitla.
“We are in active negotiations with venture capital firms, eight of
which are based out of Silicon Valley. We expect to seal a deal by
August this year. We propose to use these funds to hire better talent,
add new bouquet of services and expand our platform to multiple
languages,” Komitla told Business Standard.
Founded in November 2013, online bus ticketing to start with,
YatraGenie had earlier raised $5 million in a Series-A round of
funding.
According to Komitla, YatraGenie.com is currently being offered in
Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and English, and Paxterra is gearing up to add
Marathi, Tamil and Malayalam languages in the next six months, besides
launching a mobile app on the Android platform by the end of this
month.
“We recently added cab booking services, and are poised to expand our
services into hotels and logistics management within a fortnight, and
airline ticket booking in three months from now,” he said.
Stating that YatraGenie.com, with a current revenue run rate of Rs 60
crore, is expecting to clock revenues of Rs 150 crore in the financial
year 2015-16, Komitla said the company was expecting to operationally
break even by March 2017, and become profitable in the following year.
Thursday, 2 July 2015
YatraGenie launches taxi service in Telangana
Hyderabad, July 1:
YatraGenie, one of the online bus ticketing and cab-booking platforms,
has launched taxi rental services across 10 cities in Telangana.
By the end of 2015, YatraGenie plans to expand to 100 cities across the country.
Renil Komitla, CEO of Yatragenie, in a statement said, “We have noticed a
rising demand for city cab services not only in bigger cities but also
in Tier II and III cities. We currently have 100 cabs across ten cities
in Telangana. In the coming months we plan to introduce 500 cabs.”
YatraGenie will set up a call centre in Hyderabad and Warangal to serve the customers.
The city taxi service will be launched at Rs 100 for first 6 km and Rs
15 per extra km. Bookings can be made by dialling 2020202 or through
YatraGenie’s mobile app or by logging onto the YatraGenie website.
Business Line
With this expansion, YatraGenie will have a presence in 32 cities and
towns. Apart from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, YatraGenie taxi service
is offered in Bangalore. It plans to launch services in Mysore, Mandya,
Tumkur, Chikkaballapur, Chamrajpet and other towns in Karnataka.
Yatragenie
Sunday, 28 June 2015
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
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Wednesday, 8 April 2015
12 Realistic Reasons Why Travel Is Important ?
2. Connects us to other cultures and people.
3. Slows us down: Gives us a break from our fast-paced lives.
4. Expands our awareness and introduces us to greater diversity.
5. Helps us break habits: mentally, physically, and emotionally.
6. Gives us time to heal, reduces stress and helps us regain enthusiasm for life.
7. Stokes curiosity and awakens our inner child by offering us new, “first-time” experiences.
8. Promotes patience by releasing heavy expectations of the “one right way” mentality thereby allowing life to flow more organically.
9. Invites the opportunity to get lost and face one’s fears of the unknown.
10.Helps you get to know yourself better: the true you is rediscovered.
11. The food. It isn’t main reason to travel, but it is a big part of it.
12. You will have some great stories. People who travel are more cool . If you travel you’ll get a lot of great stories out of it.
Yours,
Yatragenie
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