Travelkhana

Travelkhana.com is the first India-wide meal booking marketplace connecting train travelers to restaurants on the Indian Railways network

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Internet / Web Services
  • Location New Delhi, DL, India
  • Currency INR
  • Founded December 2011
  • Employees 13
  • Website travelkhana.com

Company Summary

Access to food on trains is a major challenge for 1.3 billion Indian long distance passengers every year. Existing food provision system offers a limited choice of unhygienic and overpriced food. Travelkhana provides a solution. Travellers can easily order from an array of high quality food, prepared and delivered by restaurants enrolled on Travelkhana’s platform, which tracks trains and ensures fresh meal delivery at the right time & right seat.

Team

  • Pushpinder Singh
    Chief Executive Office & Founder

    - Grounded in visioning and building prestigious products, has over 15 years of software and technology industry experience focused around the software products industry.
    - Has lead QuarkXPress – having a combined sales of $400 million and created several innovative products ranging from Fuzzy address recognition to message oriented middleware.
    - Masters in Computer Science from BITS-Pilani and B.Tech from Indian Institue of Technology-Varansi.

  • Matteo Chiampo
    Strategic Advisor & Co-investor

    - Over 20 years of experience in entrepreneurial, fast-growing startups in multiple countries.
    - From 2007 to 2011 COO at Eko India Financial Services, an innovative branchless banking company serving more than 2 million BOP customers. Eko received $1.8M in grant from the Gates Foundation and raised $5M Series A from Creation Investments.
    - MBA from Boston University; MS Aeronautical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

  • Siddharth Misra
    Director - Operations

    - Headed operations for Eko India Financial Services in his last assignment organization (2M+ customers, 30k+ tx/day, 1500 customer service points).
    - Managed operations for SKS Microfinance in Eastern UP.
    - MBA in agri-business from VAMNICOM, multiple time winner of Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz.

  • Sandeep Dhodhi
    Head - Channel Sales

    - Started his career with the FMCG giant Hindustan Unilever Limited where he learned the tricks of channel sales and distribution management.
    - Lead sales & marketing and developed sales channel for the antiperspirant range of products Zodhita
    - Expanded the business correspondent operations of Eko to newer geographies and closely worked with banks in providing banking to the unbanked areas
    - Contributed to Eko's marketing department where h

Advisors

  • Lexcounsel Law Offices – Seema Jhingan
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Deepika Setia & company / AKM Associates
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

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