Gurugram-based Social travel network and D2C marketplace: Travel Buddy raises $250K in pre-seed round via Eaglewings Ventures

• ByStartupStory     |    April 2, 2022

 

Travel Buddy, the Gurugram-based social travel network and D2C marketplace, has announced that it has raised $250,000 in pre-seed funding from Eaglewings Ventures. 

Some of renowned names from the Industry and serial investors like Chetan Mathur, Sudarshan Sharma, Tarun Sharma, Lloyd Mathias, Tanmaya Vats, Devesh Nayel, Siddharth Banerjee, and other marquee non-institutional investors also participated in the round. 

For building the base technology team and strengthening the iOS product for international expansion has been planned by Travel Buddy to use the funds. To raise its seed round and pre-Series A in near future, the startup will also work with Eaglewings Ventures.    

Travel Buddy was founded by Saurav Chakraborty along with Vijay Saini and Paromita Bir and was incorporated in January 2020. With Saurav having worked in the Travel Industry for over 13+ years (Cleartrip, Facebook India), together their cumulative experience is more than 56 years.

For thousands of travel providers who are selling directly their services (Hotels, Homestays, Transport etc) to travellers, they have created a global community of travel content creators and enabled online shops (Dukaan) through Travel Buddy.

The Travel Buddy platform claims to have bootstrapped smartly to have a million+ travellers on the Android/iOS app and over 20,000 travel providers across India and abroad, in spite of facing two severe pandemics in 2020 (Wave 1) and 2021 (Wave 2). Across 176+ countries, its app has been downloaded.

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