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Mallika Srinivasan, CEO, Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd, received a Lifetime Entrepreneur Achievement Award from TiE Chennai for steering the company to its position as the world’s third-largest tractor manufacturer. S.S. Badrinath, Founder, Sankara Nethralaya, and winner of last year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, gave the award to Srinivasan at TiECON Chennai 2013. In her acceptance […]

Usually, Ukira Pandian will arrive at Madurai Mattuthavani bus stand at 4.30 a.m. to pick up his daughter. But, nowadays, he just arrives a few minutes before the arrival of Chennai-Madurai bus, as he keeps tracking the movement of the bus through a mobile app. On the lines of Ola and Uber, a Chennai-based start-up

After demonetisation, online bus-ticketing platforms are enhancing their value-added services as more travellers are expected to go cashless while buying bus tickets. Bus travel marketplaces such as Travelyaari, TicketGoose and redBus are trying out new products and services as cashless bus travel gains acceptance, making it a more organised business post demonetisation. “As bus travel

TicketGoose.com, a bus ticketing portal, plans to raise Rs. 75 crore to Rs. 100 crore by June this year. Company President and Co-founder Karthi Easwaramoorthy told The Hinduhere on Wednesday that the company was talking to investors. “The funds will come through venture capitalists mainly,” he said. It raised Rs. 25 crore from Indventure LLC in

Online bus ticketing service Ticketgoose, run by Chennai-based Efficsys Infotech India Pvt Ltd, has secured Rs 3 crore ($560,000) from angel investor and former Gums India CEO R Narayanan and a group of other investors based in the US. The Chennai-based startup, which operates from Bangalore and Hyderabad, will use a major chunk of the money

CHENNAI: Online bus ticketing startup ticketgoose.com has raised its second round of funds through crowdfunding, a concept where a group of investors pool in funds to invest in a company. The startup has raised Rs 24 crore from Indventure, a US-based crowdfunding platform. The company used its first round of funding of Rs 6 crore (also

TicketGoose’s partnership with Niki aims to enable customers to book bus tickets online through conversing with Niki on the TicketGoose mobile app Niki.ai, a start-up focused on Artificial Intelligence has partnered with online bus ticketing company TicketGoose to provide a simplified and convenient bus ticket booking experience with the launch of an intuitive chatbot. This partnership is

1) List down your fears The number one fear for any entrepreneur is failure. Irrespective of whether this is the entrepreneur’s first venture or tenth, there is always a risk of failure. However, it is important to not allow this failure to hamper the company’s growth or the ability to pitch to prospective investors. It

Online bus ticketing portal Ticketgoose.com has announced the launch of its Android and iOS mobile app. Addressing presspersons here on Friday, Karthi Easwaramoorthy, president and co-founder of Ticketgoose.com, said that the travellers can book tickets through the app. The ‘bus tracking’ option in the app allows the customers to track their buses with frequent updates

Chennai-based online portal covers 10,000 routes, books 4,000 tickets/day We are scheduled to meet over lunch in a popular vegetarian restaurant in Chennai. But, following a last-minute change, the interaction happens in a small conference room in their office on the south-western outskirts of the city. The restaurant will be too noisy and it will