iXiGO.com expands leadership team to drive the next phase of growth

Gurgaon, Haryana -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/05/2012 -- iXiGO.com, India's leading travel search engine announced the appointment of Abhishek Sharma as Vice President, Operations & Product Platform. In this role, Mr. Sharma would be responsible for driving the company's operations, product platform and content strategy as a part of its management team.

Prior to joining iXiGO.com, Mr. Sharma's professional experience spans across 13 years of strategic and operational leadership at young companies. In his previous roles, Abhishek was the Co-Founder and Head of India Operations of Tenmarks Education Inc, a leading online education provider, the Co-Founder and CEO of QSquare Technologies Pvt Ltd, a software and usability quality testing venture and the Head of Quality of XChanging's Indian operations. Having mentored several startups, Abhishek is passionate about scaling companies and implementing operational best-practices. Abhishek is a six-sigma black belt and an MDBA from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies.

Speaking on his new role, Abhishek said - "I've been passionate about startups, online products, scalability and usability, so I am definitely excited about this opportunity. iXiGO's team and product have been at the forefront of innovation in the Indian online travel industry, and there is a huge opportunity in simplifying the lives of travelers through consumer-centric travel research and trip planning products."

Abhishek Sharma joins the growing iXiGO leadership team as the company embarks on the next phase of growth. "Abhishek's past entrepreneurial experience and proven skills in scaling businesses will be a valuable asset for iXiGO. He brings great team building capabilities, content management acumen, and eye for detail to the table and we're excited to have him on board to help us in taking iXiGO to the next level." - said Aloke Bajpai, CEO & Co-Founder, iXiGO.com.

iXiGO.com has been known for its industry-first product innovations. Earlier this year, iXiGO.com launched India's first full-featured travel app for Android phones and a unique search platform for Facebook & Twitter that understands and responds to flight searches made in natural language by users of social media platforms. iXiGO.com is also beta-testing a new multi-city flight search feature and has released a sneak preview of its upcoming trip planning product at www.ixigo.com/q .

About iXiGO.com
iXiGO.com (http://www.ixigo.com) is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine. Launched in 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni, iXiGO.com consolidates search results from 100+ airlines, hotels, trains, bus booking sites & online travel portals to find the best travel deals. iXiGO's utility and ease of use have made it a top travel search engine almost entirely through word-of-mouth from satisfied users. Headquartered in Gurgaon, India, iXiGO.com has won several awards including the NASSCOM Top-10 Emerge and the TiE-Lumis Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, 2010. iXiGO.com is an investee company of SAIF Partners & MakeMyTrip Limited.

For more information about iXiGO.com, visit http://www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile). Keep up with iXiGO.com updates on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ixigocom and on Twitter @ixigorocks

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Malé International Airport partners with iXiGO.com for its online flights & hotels search

Gurgaon, Haryana -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/17/2012 -- India's leading travel search engine, iXiGO.com now powers the online travel search for the official website of Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (INIA), Male, Maldives. As a part of the airport's initiative to provide meaningful information to visitors flying to and from Maldives, the airport's official website - http://www.maldivesairport.aero now provides easy and quick access to the best flight and hotel options across the world with iXiGO's award-winning platform.

Travelers visiting the Maldives Airport "Ibrahim Nasir International Airport" website can now search from over 100+ travel websites, get schedules and fares from online travel agents and airline websites, and also compare hotel rates for 250,000+ hotels globally. Once they decide on an option, they are taken to a booking site of their choice where they can transact.

Speaking on the partnership, Nitin Gurha, VP, Travel Partnerships, iXiGO.com said - "We are proud to have partnered with GMR Male International Airport Pvt Ltd for providing comprehensive and real-time travel information to its passengers. Our business model is well-suited to an airport's needs since we enable an unbiased comparison of all available choices, and help the traveler decide which website he/she books on, rather than being an intermediary in the transaction. In addition, our innovative features such as our 180-days fare outlook, direct airline website fares and the most comprehensive and feature-rich hotel search product makes airport websites extremely user-friendly."

Mr. Andrew Harrison, CEO of GMR Male International Airport Pvt Ltd added - "Ibrahim Nasir International Airport has been on the forefront of service innovations in order to ensure a stress-free and memorable experience for its passengers. By incorporating iXiGO's travel search on our website, travelers to/from Male can experience an easy-to-use, unbiased and world-class product for checking flight schedules, real-time fares/availability and hotel rates/availability from across the world. The transparency of iXiGO's travel search aligns with the business objectives of INIA and this partnership helps maldivesairport.aero become a more exciting and innovative website for our customers and guests"

iXiGO.com has emerged as a partner of choice for airport websites, since it adds to their credibility by providing relevant and unbiased travel information. iXiGO has been powering online travel search for the official websites of New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport- www.newdelhiairport.in and Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport - www.hyderabad.aero since 2010.

About iXiGO.com
iXiGO.com (http://www.ixigo.com) is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine. Launched in 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni, iXiGO.com consolidates search results from 100+ airlines, hotels, trains, bus booking sites & online travel portals to find the best travel deals. iXiGO's utility and ease of use have made it a top travel search engine almost entirely through word-of-mouth from satisfied users. Headquartered in Gurgaon, India, iXiGO.com has won several awards including the NASSCOM Top-10 Emerge and the TiE-Lumis Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, 2010. iXiGO.com is an investee company of SAIF Partners & MakeMyTrip Limited. For more information about iXiGO.com, visit www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile). Keep up with iXiGO.com updates on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ixigocom and on Twitter @ixigorocks

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Indian travel search engine expands management team

Gurgaon, Haryana -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/05/2012 -- iXiGO.com, India's leading travel search engine announced the appointment of Ernesto Cohnen as Vice President, Products. In this role, Ernesto will be responsible for managing the product development lifecycle of iXiGO's travel search, trip planning & mobile products.

Ernesto comes to iXiGO from Amadeus IT Group SA (Spain), the world's leading travel technology company, where he worked for the past 5 years as a software architect and managed a diverse range of projects, including the transition from legacy systems to open-source and mobile platforms. An MBA from the Technical University of Madrid and a Computer Science post-graduate from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Ernesto brings over 8 years of product & technology experience with companies such as CapGemini and Pragsis. He was also actively involved in CSR programs at Amadeus for coordinating and launching 'The Small Hotels Distribution Project'.

Speaking on his appointment, Ernesto said - "I am excited to be a part of iXiGO's next phase of evolution in one of the fastest growing online travel markets in the world. With the quality of the management team and a culture that fosters innovation, I am confident that iXiGO's phenomenal growth will continue through the launch of innovative products that provide Indian consumers reliable & transparent travel information."

"Ernesto's proven track record in product design, architecture, delivery & mobile technology, combined with his experience in the travel industry will be an invaluable asset for us. He also embodies the passion and energy that defines iXiGems. We are delighted to welcome him on board and we look forward to his contributions." - said Rajnish Kumar, CTO & Co-Founder, iXiGO.com.

Ernesto joins iXiGO's leadership team comprising of Nitin Gurha, Vice President - Travel Partnerships and Krishna Iyer, Vice President - Media Partnerships, in charting the company's future. iXiGO's organic growth story and award-winning product have helped it attract top product and engineering talent to its team. Earlier this year, iXiGO.com launched a revolutionary semantic search engine on Facebook & Twitter that understands and responds to flight searches made in natural language by users of social media platforms.

About iXiGO.com
iXiGO.com (http://www.ixigo.com) is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine. Launched in 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni, iXiGO.com consolidates search results from 100+ airlines, hotels, trains, bus booking sites & online travel portals to find the best travel deals. iXiGO's utility and ease of use have made it a top travel search engine almost entirely through word-of-mouth from satisfied users. Headquartered in Gurgaon India, iXiGO.com has won several awards including the NASSCOM Top-10 Emerge and the TiE-Lumis Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, 2010. iXiGO.com is an investee company of SAIF Partners & MakeMyTrip Limited. For more information about iXiGO.com, visit http://www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile). Keep up with iXiGO.com updates on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ixigocom and on Twitter @ixigorocks

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Search for flights & hotels across all travel sites from your Android Phone

Gurgaon, Haryana -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/14/2011 -- iXiGO.com, India's leading travel search engine, today announced the launch of India's first full-featured flights & hotels search application for Android devices. The iXiGO app is available globally on the Android market and can be downloaded and installed for free on any smartphone running the Android Operating System.

iXiGO's Android App ( available at https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ixigo ) allows Android smartphone users to instantly search for flights & hotels & compares fares across multiple airlines, hotels and online travel agency websites. The app also allow users to track flight status and delays, view hotel maps, see hotel information & pictures, view airport information & locations and even complete the booking by redirecting to the booking provider's website or by making a call to the relevant booking provider's phone number.

Rajnish Kumar, CTO, iXiGO.com, said - "We are proud to announce the first Indian travel search app on the Android app market. With the growing market-share of Android phones and the availability of cheap smartphone devices, we're committed to delivering the same richness of user experience and depth of flight and hotel information as our website, on Android phones and tablets."

"Our mobile strategy is gaining more prominence since over 5% of our website now come from a mobile device. In addition to our Android and iPhone apps, we also have a full-feature mobile website coming soon!", added Aloke Bajpai, CEO, iXiGO.com.

iXiGO.com has won several awards in the past for being one of the most innovative internet companies from India, and with this launch, the travel search engine has established itself as a leader in the travel mobile apps space. iXiGO.com has earned a reputation among travelers as the most trustworthy, comprehensive, transparent & accurate travel site in India for flights, hotels, buses, trains and deals. Its meta-search business model compares travel deals from 100+ travel sites and has helped millions of travelers save time and money on their travel.

About iXiGO.com
iXiGO.com (http://www.ixigo.com ) is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine based out of Gurgaon, India. iXiGO.com searches across multiple airlines, hotels, trains, bus booking sites & online travel portals to find the best travel deals. Launched in June 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Dharmendra Yashovardhan, iXiGO.com has been recognized by NASSCOM as India's Top-10 Emerging company / Top-100 Innovator, and won the TiE-Lumis Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, 2010. iXiGO.com is an investee company of SAIF Partners & MakeMyTrip Limited.

For more information about iXiGO.com, visit http://www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile). Keep up with iXiGO.com updates on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ixigocom and on Twitter @ixigorocks .

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SAIF Partners & MakeMyTrip invest $18.5 Million in India's leading travel search engine

Gurgaon, Haryana -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/15/2011 -- iXiGO.com, India's leading travel search engine, has announced an equity infusion from SAIF Partners, a leading Asian private equity & venture capital fund, and MakeMyTrip Limited, India's leading online travel company, for a total cash consideration of $18.5 million across investment into the company and purchase of shares from existing shareholders.

Immediately post this transaction, SAIF Partners and MakeMyTrip Limited would own 56.7% and 19.9% respectively of the company, Le Travenues Technology Private Limited.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Aloke Bajpai, Founder-CEO of iXiGO.com said – "We are excited about this development. We believe that with the backing of SAIF Partners & MakeMyTrip, we will be able to further enhance our product offering and expand our market penetration among internet & mobile users, both in India and abroad."

Mr. Ravi Adusumalli, Managing Partner & Head of India Operations for SAIF Partners said – "Online travel remains the leading growth driver of e-commerce & online advertising in India. We're glad to be backing a passionate team with a proven track record of innovation & product-led growth in this space." Mr. Deep Kalra, Group Chairman & CEO, MakeMyTrip Limited added – "We believe there are synergies in the two business models and both the consumers and the travel industry in India have a lot to benefit from this partnership."

Commenting on what this means for the future of iXiGO, Aloke said, "Our core purpose of simplifying the lives of travelers through comprehensive and unbiased information remains unchanged. We are looking forward to grow our team and innovate further in expanding our product offerings for online travel research & trip-planning. We also aim to strengthen our existing relationships with suppliers, online travel agencies, hotel aggregators, advertisers and content partners, and remain committed to maintaining win-win partnerships with our ecosystem."

About iXiGO.com
iXiGO.com (Le Travenues Technology Pvt Ltd), is a leading online & mobile travel search engine based out of Gurgaon, India. iXiGO.com searches across multiple airlines, hotels, trains, bus booking sites & online travel portals to find the best travel deals. Launched in June 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Dharmendra Yashovardhan, the company raised seed investment from BAF Spectrum, Singapore in 2008. iXiGO.com has been recognized by NASSCOM as a Top-100 Innovator & India's Top-10 Emerging Company and also won the TiE-Lumis Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, 2010.

About SAIF Partners
SAIF Partners is a venture capital firm that is sector and stage agnostic. SAIF is extremely active in early stage technology-enabled businesses. SAIF was the first institutional investor in companies such as MakeMyTrip (Consumer Internet), One97 (Mobile VAS), JustDial (Local Search), and HomeShop18 (eCommerce). The fund has strong experience of investing in companies at an early stage and helping them through multiple rounds of financings and eventually an IPO. In addition, SAIF is an active growth investor in companies like Catmoss (Apparel Retail), Speciality Restaurants (Restaurants), Network18 (Media & Broadcasting), TV9 (Media & Broadcasting), SIFY (Consumer Internet) IL&FS Investmart (Financial Services) and the National Stock Exchange (Financial Services). SAIF currently manages $4.0 billion across funds and is actively seeking investment opportunities in early stage and growth stage businesses.

About MakeMyTrip
MakeMyTrip Limited is the parent company of MakeMyTrip (India) Private Limited, India's largest online travel company, MakeMyTrip.com Inc. and Luxury Tours & Travel Pte Ltd, Singapore. The Company's services and products include air tickets, customized holiday packages, hotel bookings, railway tickets, bus tickets, car hire and facilitating access to travel insurance. Through its primary website, http://www.makemytrip.com, and other technology-enhanced platforms, the company provides access to all major domestic full-service and low-cost airlines operating in India, all major airlines operating to and from India, over 4,700 hotels in India and a wide selection of hotels outside India, Indian Railways and several major Indian bus operators.

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First Indian travel site with a global flights & hotels search app for the iPhone

Gurgaon, Haryana -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/03/2011 -- iXiGO.com (http://www.ixigo.com), India's leading travel search engine, today announced the launch of a global Travel App for iPhone users, becoming the first travel site in India to launch on the App Store. Available for Apple's iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad devices, the iXiGO Travel App can be downloaded and installed FREE of charge.

iXiGO's iPhone App ( available at http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/ixigo-travel/id418128294 ) available in English, Spanish, German & Italian, allows iPhone users to do a quick search for flights and compare fares across multiple airline and online travel agency websites, search hotel rates and availability from over 250,000 hotels from across all leading hotel booking websites, view maps, see hotel pictures, read reviews, track flight status and delays, see airport information & locations, and complete flight & hotel bookings either on a website of the user's choice, or by making a call to the relevant booking provider by clicking on the phone numbers provided.

"This is the first time an Indian Internet company has built a free iPhone travel app with global audiences in mind", said Aloke Bajpai, Founder-CEO, iXiGO.com."With our simple, fast and intuitive user interface, whether you are in Mumbai, Madrid or Mombasa, you can get flight & hotel information from all around the world on the go, searching across 100+ travel sites. No wonder we are seeing hundreds of downloads already, with 5-star user ratings too!"

"Smartphones are likely to become the dominant platform for Internet access in the near future. Our strategy is to ensure we can give our mobile users the same richness of functionality & content, in search, comparison & filters, as we offer on our website, leveraging the form-factor & powerful location-awareness features on their iPhones", said Rajnish Kumar, co-Founder & CTO, iXiGO.com. "The iPhone App we launched today is the first cornerstone of this strategy. In the coming months, we will be launching mobile applications for a variety of smartphone devices."

iXiGO.com has won several awards in the past for being one of the most innovative internet companies from India, and this launch adds to the list of innovations it has delivered to travelers. iXiGO.com is also considered by travelers as the most trustworthy, comprehensive, transparent & accurate travel site in India for flights, hotels, buses, trains and deals. Its meta-search business model for online travel bookings is helping millions of travelers save time and money on their travel & enhancing the overall efficiency of the online travel ecosystem.

About iXiGO.com
iXiGO.com is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine based out of Gurgaon, India. iXiGO.com searches across multiple airlines, hotels, trains, bus booking sites & online travel portals to find the best travel deals. Launched in June 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Dharmendra Yashovardhan, iXiGO.com has been recognized by NASSCOM as India's Top-10 Emerging company / Top-100 Innovator, and won the TiE-Lumis Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, 2010.

iXiGO.com is backed by BAF Spectrum, a Singapore-based seed-investment fund. For more information about iXiGO.com, visit www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile). Keep up with iXiGO.com updates on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ixigocom and on Twitter @ixigorocks .

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iXiGO.com powers online flight & hotel meta-search for newdelhiairport.in

Gurgaon, Haryana -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/19/2011 -- iXiGO.com has partnered with Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) for enabling a flights & hotels search engine on the IGIA website http://www.newdelhiairport.in . This partnership enables passengers visiting the airport's website to search for flights and hotels  across 100+ travel websites and to choose and book directly on their preferred airline or hotel booking site for both domestic and international destinations.

The travel bookings search functionality has been made available to passengers on newdelhiairport.in, a website developed and maintained by ePagemaker, an online solutions company. With this partnership, the airport website will enable over a million domestic and international passengers to compare airfares across airlines flying within India and abroad, as well as compare hotel rates for 2,50,000+ hotels globally. After comparing results from multiple travel websites in one search, users can  select and book directly with the respective booking site of their desired option.

"This partnership makes newdelhiairport.in one of the most innovative and consumer friendly airport websites in the world in terms of real-time travel information and meta-search", said Nitin Gurha, VP, Travel Partnerships, iXiGO.com. He added, "We are delighted to offer visitors to New Delhi Airport's website with an easy-to-use  world-class search tool for checking flight schedules, fares and availability along with hotel reservations across the country. Air travelers to and from India can now benefit from several innovative features such as all-inclusive flight pricing, real-time fares & availability for all airlines, comparison of hotel rates across multiple booking sites and map-location based search of hotels.

iXiGO.com is considered a pioneer of online travel search and is recognized as one of the most comprehensive, fast, transparent & accurate travel sites in India for flights, hotels, buses, trains and deals. iXiGO.com empowers consumers by providing them the ability to search and compare prices and availability across 100+ travel sites, and is the fastest growing travel site in India. Its meta-search business model for online travel bookings is helping millions of travelers save time and money on their travel & enhancing the overall efficiency of the online travel ecosystem. 

About iXiGO.com
iXiGO.com is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine based out of Gurgaon, India. iXiGO.com searches across multiple airlines, hotels, trains, bus booking sites & online travel portals to find the best travel deals. Launched in June 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Dharmendra Yashovardhan, iXiGO.com has been recognized by NASSCOM as India's Top-10 Emerging company / Top-100 Innovator, and won the TiE-Lumis Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, 2010.

iXiGO.com is backed by BAF Spectrum, a Singapore-based seed-investment fund. For more information about iXiGO.com, visit http://www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile). Keep up with iXiGO.com updates on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ixigocom and on Twitter @ixigorocks .

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iXiGO.com wins prestigious award at TiE Entrepreneurial Summit 2010

Gurgaon, Haryana -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/30/2010 -- iXiGO.com has been named a winner of the TiE-Lumis Partners Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards 2010 at the recently concluded Entrepreneurial Summit (TES) 2010, one of the largest entrepreneurship symposium in Asia, held at the Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi. Currently in its 3rd year, the Excellence Awards are aimed to not only recognize the idea but also the effort, innovation and passion of the entrepreneurs who have braved the odds and made a mark with their start-ups.

Mr. Sridhar Iyengar, former Chairman-CEO, KPMG India and Chair, TES Steering Committee, presented the awards to iXiGO.com in attendance of all summit delegates at the awards ceremony. The award received 700+ submissions out of which 20 were shortlisted for screening and 6 companies were invited to present at the conference to decide the final winners. iXiGO.com won the award along with B2R Technologies and Canvera. Luminaries such as Pramod Bhasin, CEO of Genpact, Saurabh Srivastava, Chairman-Emeritus TiE-Delhi, and Rohit Bhayana Managing Partner at Lumis Partners formed a part of the jury and followed a fairly stringent evaluation process. Criteria used included the business understanding of the market vis-a-vis product placement, current clientele and potential pipeline, comparative positioning to the competitors, differentiators, value proposition, social impact, growth etc.

Speaking at the awards ceremony with his team, Aloke Bajpai, Founder-CEO, iXiGO.com said, "This is a very special moment for us since it validates the impact iXiGO.com is creating among consumers and in our ecosystem. It also reinforces our own entrepreneurial zeal and passion for building a world-class Internet business from India. We owe this award to our team of dedicated iXiGems without whose hard work achieving such a landmark would have been impossible."

iXiGO.com empowers consumers by providing them the ability to search prices and availability across 100+ travel booking sites for flights (domestic and international), hotels (domestic & international), buses, deals etc. It is the fastest growing travel site in India and the largest travel search engine in India, expanding to Europe & other Asian geographies in 2011. iXiGO.com's unique meta-search business model is helping millions of travelers save time and money on their travel & enhancing the overall efficiency of the online travel ecosystem.

About iXiGO.com
iXiGO.com is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine based out of Gurgaon, India. iXiGO.com searches across multiple airlines, hotels, trains and bus booking sites to find the best travel deals. Launched in June 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Dharmendra Yashovardhan, iXiGO.com has been recognized by NASSCOM as a Top-10 Emerging company in India & a Top-100 Innovator. BusinessToday and Wall Street Journal/Mint have named it among India's 10 hottest startups in 2008 for its unique market approach, product usability, and passionate management team. iXiGO.com is backed by BAF Spectrum, a Singapore-based seed-investment fund. For more information about iXiGO.com, visit http://www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile).

About TiE-Lumis Partners Awards
TiE Delhi-NCR & Lumis Partners instituted the Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards in 2008 with the vision to recognize outstanding young companies that have the potential to transform into world leading organizations in the near future. The idea was to create a platform that will seek to promote such companies by combining the TiE network and mentoring support with Lumis Partners' acumen in providing access to funding and board level coaching. In its 3rd year, TiE's unique initiative aims to uncover some of the most innovative, sustainable and high potential companies. It seeks to engage not only with entrepreneurs but also with policy makers, in order to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship. TiE's Delhi-NCR Chapter is among the largest and most vibrant across the vast TiE network. TiE Delhi-NCR conducts over 50 events every year covering aspects of entrepreneurship like funding and finance, marketing and sales, expanding into new geographies and business and organization management.

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Iffort study praises iXiGO.com’s Facebook fan growth & engagement

Gurgaon, Haryana -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/04/2010 -- A recent in-depth independent study conducted by Iffort Consulting, a Noida-based leading web strategy and social media consulting firm, brings iXiGO.com to the limelight as one of the fastest growing Indian brands on Facebook, through its fan page presence at http://www.facebook.com/ixigocom .In addition to iXiGO.com, the study applauds the efforts of brands such as MTV-India (most popular brand) and Delhi Traffic Police (most active brand) on the medium. A full copy of the study report is available for download at http://www.iffort.com/facebook.php .

The Iffort study titled "How are business entities in India using Facebook" selected and reviewed the Facebook fan pages of 25 select brands across 7 industry verticals - Media, Consumer Durables, Food Chains, FMCG, Telecom, Online Portals & Publishing for over a one month period, and analyzed them against quantitative & qualitative criteria such as number of fans, growth rate, on-page activity, likes/discussions on walls, methods of engagement, responsiveness of admins & quality of content, in order to assess them for growth & engagement of their target audience on Facebook.

According to the study, iXiGO.com's Facebook fan page experienced the highest percentage growth rates among all the Indian brands surveyed across verticals, with 148% fan-base growth during the period of assessment. iXiGO.com was also one of the Top-5 most discussed brands on Facebook with 200+ daily interactions. The study noted the use of innovative engagement strategies by iXiGO.com that were being replicated by other online travel brands on Facebook. Specific activities on the iXiGO.com fan page were quoted in the study e.g. - "a bunch of activities like active wall posts by the administrator are keeping community members busy with puzzles on site-seeing places, animals, buildings, trekking spots etc. In addition, there is a separate tab of "Contests & Promotions" on their fan page."

"The Iffort study highlights the growing clout of social media marketing in India as a vital part of marketing & PR strategy," said Aloke Bajpai, Founder-CEO, iXiGO.com, "Quality content, unbeatable travel deals, responsive admins & constantly listening to feedback from fans is the secret recipe of our growth." It is notable that Facebook now has over 12 million active users in India and received 20.87 million unique visitors from India in July 2010 according to Comscore, thereby displacing Orkut as the largest social network in the country.

As of date, iXiGO.com has 18,000+ fans on Facebook and continues its momentum as India's fastest growing travel site. iXiGO.com empowers consumers by providing them the ability to search prices and availability across 100+ travel booking sites globally for flights , hotels , buses, trains, deals etc. in a few seconds. In just 3 years, iXiGO's deeply embedded global relationships in the Travel and Internet Industry have helped it successfully establish itself as a credible distribution and media platform for airlines, hotels, online travel agents as well as advertisers looking for consumers with an ability and willingness to transact online.

About iXiGO.com:
iXiGO.com is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine based out of Gurgaon, India. iXiGO.com searches across over 100+ travel websites and compares prices of airlines, hotels, trains and bus booking sites to find the best travel deals. Launched in 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Dharmendra Yashovardhan, iXiGO.com has been recognized by NASSCOM, BusinessToday & Wall Street Journal/Mint as a Top-10 Emerging Company in India. iXiGO.com is backed by BAF Spectrum, a Singapore-based seed-investment fund. For more information about iXiGO.com, visit http://www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile).

About Iffort
Iffort is a Noida based 'People Centric' web strategy & social media consulting firm creating a thorough roadmap to deliver tangible value for its clients. Along with our technology partners itemperance consulting, we deliver rich social media centric solutions in web-domain

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NASSCOM recognizes iXiGO.com’s exponential growth and future potential

Gurgaon, Haryana -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/03/2010 -- iXiGO.com (http://www.ixigo.com), India's largest travel search engine has been named a NASSCOM Emerge 50 company for 2010 (http://blog.nasscom.in/emerge/2010/07/its-time-to-unveil-the-nasscom-emerge-50-for-2010/).

Emerge 50 is an initiative of NASSCOM to identify and honour emerging companies which are redefining the benchmarks of excellence and growth. iXiGO.com, consistently ranked as India's most innovative and trusted travel site has been selected by NASSCOM as one of the companies which have achieved fastest rates of growth in the past few years through their game changing proprietary technology and unique value proposition.

iXiGO.com empowers consumers by providing them the ability to search prices and availability across multiple transactional travel sites for flights (domestic and international), hotels (domestic & international), buses, deals etc. in a few seconds. iXiGO's deeply embedded global relationships in the Travel and Online Industry have helped it successfully establish itself as a credible advertising and distribution platform for airlines, hotels, online travel agents as well as advertisers looking for consumers with an ability and willingness to transact online.

Speaking on the occasion, Dharmendra Yashovardhan, Co-Founder and COO of iXiGO.com said – "It's an honour to be recognized amongst the fastest growing technology firms in India. The timing is just right, as we are at the cusp of charting our next phase of growth through new products and innovative partnerships."

"We have always been known for our cutting edge product capabilities. This new recognition by NASSCOM strengthens our resolve to ensure iXiGO.com fulfills its promise as a truly global travel search company to emerge out of India", added Aloke Bajpai, Founder-CEO of iXiGO.com.

iXiGO.com is India's fastest growing travel site, registering a growth of over 200% YoY in 2009-10, and generates a total transaction value of almost $4M every month. The company was previously named a NASSCOM Top 100 Innovator for 2007.

About iXiGO.com
iXiGO.com is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine based out of Gurgaon, India. iXiGO.com searches across multiple airlines, hotels, trains and bus booking sites to find the best travel deals. Launched in June 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Dharmendra Yashovardhan, iXiGO.com has been recognized by NASSCOM as India's Top-100 Innovator. BusinessToday and Wall Street Journal/Mint have named it among India's 10 hottest startups in 2008 for its unique market approach, product usability, and passionate management team.

iXiGO is backed by BAF Spectrum, a Singapore-based seed-investment fund. For more information about iXiGO, visit http://www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile).

About NASSCOM
NASSCOM is a global trade body with over 1200 members, of which over 250 are global companies from the US, UK, EU, Japan and China. NASSCOM's member companies are in the business of software development, software services, software products, IT-enabled/BPO services and e-commerce. NASSCOM has been the strongest proponent of global free trade in India.

NASSCOM was set up in 1988, at Mumbai to facilitate business and trade in software and services and to encourage advancement of research in software technology. It is a not-for-profit organization, registered under the Indian Societies Act, 1860. For more information about NASSCOM, visit http://www.nasscom.in.

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Search across online travel deals, promotions, discounts & cash-backs

Gurgaon, Haryana -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/25/2010 -- iXiGO.com, India's fastest growing travel site, has announced the launch of an innovative product for searching across all online travel deals in India. The product, launched at www.ixigo.com/deals provides a powerful search engine that compares hundreds of special offers, promotions & deals for flights, hotels and vacations from all major travel sites across airlines, hotel chains & vacation package sellers.

iXiGO's deal search allows a quick search across all online travel deals for search terms of interest to travelers, including searches by destination names (e.g. "Bangkok" or "Goa"), by bank-names (e.g. "Citibank" or "HDFC") for deals specific to credit cards, and by types of deal (e.g. "cashback" or "discount"). Aggregating deals from all major travel sites, the product offers travelers a smarter way of searching across travel deals on the Internet. Travelers can also sign up for a deals e-newsletter to remain informed about future promotions and limited-period discounts.

"With a significant number of online travel deals and promotions running at any given point of time, travelers have been looking for a simpler way of searching and comparing such offers for planning their vacations in India and abroad", said Rajnish Kumar, Co-Founder & CTO, iXiGO.com. He added, "Our travel deals search is a unique aggregation of discounts, cashbacks and limited-period offers running across travel sites in India, and will help iXiGOers make smarter travel buying decisions. As far as we know, this is a one-of-its-kind product in the online travel industry !"

iXiGO's foray into the attractive travel deal marketing business comes at a time when the number of online travel portals in India has grown to double digits and it has become increasingly difficult for travelers to know which portal is offering the best deal or discount for a given destination on any given day. Since promotions & discounts are usually limited-period offers available only on select partner airlines/hotels, having a single view for all deals across the Internet saves time and money for the value-conscious traveler.

Krishna Iyer, Head, Advertising & Affiliations, remarked - "Internet deal marketing in general, and travel deal marketing in particular, is a very promising area of opportunity. Online travel marketers can reach a very relevant audience instantly in an extremely cost-effective manner by promoting their special fares, promotions, discounts, cash-backs and loyalty programs on iXiGO.com. In addition, our travel deals newsletter takes the top travel deals directly to iXiGOers once a month."

iXiGO.com is considered a pioneer of online travel search in India and is recognized as the most comprehensive, transparent & trustworthy travel site for comparing offers for flights, hotels and buses from multiple booking sites. In May 2010, the travel site grew 244% in comparison to the same month last year, and now processes over 1.5 million travel searches and 6 million advertising impressions every month.

About iXiGO.com:
iXiGO.com is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine based out of Gurgaon, India. iXiGO.com searches across multiple airlines, hotels, trains, bus booking sites & online travel portals to find the best travel deals. Launched in June 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Dharmendra Yashovardhan, iXiGO.com has been recognized by NASSCOM as India's Top-100 Innovator. BusinessToday and Wall Street Journal/Mint have named it among India's 10 hottest startups in 2008.

iXiGO.com is backed by BAF Spectrum, a Singapore-based seed-investment fund. For more information about iXiGO.com, visit www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile). Keep up with iXiGO.com updates on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ixigocom and on Twitter @ixigorocks .

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iXiGO.com launches Air Fare Alerts

New Delhi, India -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/25/2010 -- iXiGO.com, India's fastest-growing travel site, has launched an innovative Fare Alerts feature that allows its users to get alerts by e-mail as soon as airfares for a future date drop below a threshold set by them. iXiGO Fare Alerts - http://www.ixigo.com/alerts - is a one-of-its-kind Indian innovation for tracking lowest airfare trends between two airports for future dates.

Airline pricing is extremely dynamic and depends on a complex set of rules for yield management. Competitive pressures, special promotions, aviation fuel price fluctuations, taxation policy shifts, airline load factor / demand swings can influence the decision of an airline to drop airfares on any given sector during a certain period of time. iXiGO Fare Alerts will allow consumers to track such airfare trends, so that they can take advantage of significant drops in fares - instantly!

Aloke Bajpai, Founder-CEO, iXiGO.com said – "The days of information asymmetry in airline pricing are over. iXiGOers can now decide what budget they have for flying on a certain route and leave it to iXiGO Fare Alerts to keep them alerted whenever the lowest airfares falls within their budget. This is yet another effort from iXiGO.com to bring transparency to online travel."

Co-Founder & CTO, Rajnish Kumar, added – "Our users can track airfares on any given route over any period within the next 12 months. They have an option to receive daily / weekly emails with fares and fare trends on their route, or to be alerted instantly (as it happens) when the lowest airfare on a chosen route drops for specific dates or for any month of interest. The most useful part is a historical alerts graph sent with the alert - you can decide whether to buy or to wait based on the trendline. More power to iXiGOers!"

iXiGO.com is known for its efforts to reduce complexity and enhance transparency in the online travel ecosystem, pioneering all-inclusive pricing on result pages and unbiased display of flight results. In 2007, iXiGO.com had also launched a revolutionary Air Fare Outlook product - http://www.ixigo.com/outlook - allowing users to view trends of lowest fares across airlines over the next 180 days in a graph within the search results. iXiGO Fare Outlook and iXiGO Fare Alerts together provide a potent tool-kit for helping consumers decide which future dates are the most economical for booking their flight tickets.

About iXiGO.com:
iXiGO.com is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine based out of Gurgaon, India. iXiGO.com searches across multiple airlines, hotels, trains, bus booking sites & online travel portals to find the best travel deals. Launched in June 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Dharmendra Yashovardhan, iXiGO.com has been recognized by NASSCOM as India's Top-100 Innovator. BusinessToday and Wall Street Journal/Mint have named it among India's 10 hottest startups in 2008.

iXiGO.com is backed by BAF Spectrum, a Singapore-based seed-investment fund. For more information about iXiGO.com, visit http://www.ixigo.com or http://m.ixigo.com (mobile). Keep up with iXiGO.com updates on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ixigocom and on Twitter @ixigorocks .

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iXiGO.com survey reveals online travel buying behavior in India

New Delhi, India-- (SBWIRE) -- 02/18/2010 -- iXiGO.com, India's leading travel search engine, has revealed the results of its recent online travel survey, providing unique insights into online travel consumer behavior in India.

The survey was conducted by INSEAD MBAs on behalf of iXiGO.com from August 2009 to February 2010, with responses from over 2,500 Indian online travelers from across a diverse representative sample of Internet users searching or booking travel online. The online travel buying audience unraveled by the survey is that of an affluent, young, well-educated, professional internet users, with almost half the respondents reporting an annual income above INR 5 lakhs per month, 90% of the respondents being graduates, and over 55% being professional degree holders (Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers, MBAs).

The results reveal that Indian Internet users have developed a clear preference for booking flights online and have matured into deal-hunters and comparison shoppers, with almost 65% of respondents checking 3 or more travel sites, before making a booking, and 18% of respondents checking 5 or more travel sites before completing a transaction. The Indian traveler's love for promotions, discounts, deals etc. also came out prominently in the survey, with "Price" and "Good Deals" rated most often as the most important parameters in choosing a website for booking flights, followed by "Comprehensiveness / Choice" and "Simplicity". In addition, Indian travelers have no clear preference for either airline sites or online travel agency (OTA) sites for completing their transactions, with over 61% of respondents booking "where the best deals are", 23% preferring to book on airline official sites and 16% sticking to booking on OTA sites.

When it comes to hotel bookings, the buying behavior revealed is that of a maturing online market, with offline channels still competing with online channels for being the most preferred means for booking hotels. The survey finds that there is a marked tendency of travelers needing to speak to someone, checking multiple hotel booking sites and cross-checking offline rates of the hotel directly with the hotel desk or a travel agent, before deciding to book their hotels. However, online travel sites are being used increasingly as a research, comparison and information-gathering tool, and almost 35% of the respondents now book their hotels online. When booking hotels online, "Price", "Hotel Location" and "Hotel Brand" have emerged as the three most important parameters that help travelers decide which hotel they choose to book.

Dharmendra Yashovardhan, Chief Operating Officer, iXiGO.com summed up the findings - "Our survey pinpoints to a strong need for deal-comparison platforms that allow travelers to compare travel deals across multiple online travel sites, in order to satiate the Indian online traveler's hunger for deal-hunting and comparison shopping. When it comes to hotels, a more comprehensive aggregation of online and offline hotel deals, location-based hotel mapping and the confidence of getting the best prices online, have emerged as the strongest needs of the hour."

iXiGO.com, India's fastest growing travel site and South Asia's biggest travel search engine, allows business & leisure travelers a quick search & comparison of prices across multiple airline websites, hotel and bus service providers as well as online travel portals, allowing them to save time and money every time they travel by ensuring a more comprehensive & deeper search of available travel options.

Survey Methodology:
The survey was carried out by INSEAD business school graduates on behalf of iXiGO.com. The survey used online mediums, including the iXiGO.com website, iXiGO.com registered user-base and social media networks including LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter, with over 2,500 responses from India. Results were weighted to be representative of the Indian adult online population on the basis of sex, age, education and income. The online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For more detailed survey methodology and full survey results please send a request to survey@ixigo.com .

About iXiGO.com
iXiGO.com is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine based out of Gurgaon, India. iXiGO.com searches across multiple airlines, hotels, trains, bus booking sites & online travel portals to find the best travel deals. Launched in June 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Dharmendra Yashovardhan, iXiGO.com has been recognized by NASSCOM as India's Top-100 Innovator. BusinessToday and Wall Street Journal/Mint have named it among India's 10 hottest startups in 2008.

iXiGO.com is backed by BAF Spectrum, a Singapore-based seed-investment fund. For more information about iXiGO.com, visit http://www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile). Keep up with iXiGO.com updates on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ixigocom and on Twitter @ixigorocks .

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iXiGOers to win unlimited gifts from Seventymm & Myntra.com

New Delhi, India -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/31/2010 -- iXiGO.com, India's leading travel search engine has launched a one-of-its-kind promotion in partnership with Seventymm & Myntra.com to bring an exclusive offer to iXiGOers who book their flights on select airline partners. Gifts include subscriptions to Seventymm's movie rental service at a deeply discounted price and personalized merchandize including t-shirts, sweatshirts, calendars, diaries & more. Details of the Gifts Unlimited! promotion are available at http://www.ixigo.com/html/info/promo/giftsUnlimited.ixi

iXiGO.com has currently launched this promotion for iXiGOers who search & book Jet Airways flights using its travel search engine, and plans to extend it to more airlines soon. In order to be eligible for the gifts, an iXiGOer should search on iXiGO.com, choose their favorite Jet Airways flight, and once redirected, book it on jetairways.com. To redeem, the iXiGOer needs to share his/her PNR details with iXiGO.com. "We are happy to work with Seventymm & Myntra.com to offer iXiGOers more value for their bookings. There is no limit to the number of gift redemptions that can be done in a month, which is why we are calling it Gifts Unlimited! The more you book on the partner airlines, the more you redeem, the more you win! " – said Krishna Iyer, Head, Affiliates & Advertising at iXiGO.com.

Speaking on the partnership, Geetu Ahuja, Director, Online Marketing, Seventymm, said "Seventymm's target audience is internet savvy, owns DVD players and is likely to book travel online. It is therefore natural for us to reach out to iXiGOers with this association. We hope all iXiGOers can take advantage of our unbeatable offer that will allow them to choose from over 20,000 movies and watch them from the convenience of their homes."

Mukesh Bansal, CEO, Myntra.com said, "iXiGO.com is India's leading travel search engine and this partnership rewards iXiGOers by offering them Myntra's personalization platform to redeem their Gifts Unlimited! rewards by ordering unique personalized merchandize customized with their slogans & designs."

iXiGO.com, India's fastest growing travel site allows business & leisure travelers a quick search & comparison of prices across multiple airline websites, hotel and bus service providers as well as online travel portals, allowing them to save time and money everytime they travel by ensuring a more comprehensive & deeper search of available travel options. iXiGO's userbase has grown at 15% MoM in 2009, mostly through word of mouth.

About iXiGO.com
iXiGO.com is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine based out of Gurgaon, India. iXiGO.com searches across multiple airlines, hotels, trains, bus booking sites & online travel portals to find the best travel deals. Launched in June 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Dharmendra Yashovardhan, iXiGO.com has been recognized by NASSCOM as India's Top-100 Innovator. BusinessToday and Wall Street Journal/Mint have named it among India's 10 hottest startups in 2008 for its unique market approach, product usability, and passionate management team.

iXiGO is backed by BAF Spectrum, a Singapore-based seed-investment fund. For more information about iXiGO, visit http://www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile).

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iXiGO.com
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Recognition for consumer empowerment in e-business & commerce category

New Delhi, India -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/03/2010 -- iXiGO.com (http://www.ixigo.com), India's fastest-growing travel search site has been named a finalist at the prestigious Manthan Awards South Asia 2009, organized by the Digital Empowerment Foundation in partnership with World Summit Award and American India Foundation (http://www.manthanaward.org/section_full_story.asp?id=880).

The Manthan Awards recognize innovative South Asian projects that promote development through digital inclusion and empower communities through knowledge-sharing. iXiGO.com, India's largest travel search engine, has been selected as a finalist in the e-business & commerce category, owing to its innovative business model and transparent approach to online travel information search & aggregation.

iXiGO.com's strength has been its unbiased travel meta-search model that compares travel inventory across multiple travel websites, allowing consumers to make more informed choices for making their air, hotel, bus, train bookings online. By showing travelers an all-inclusive price comparison without commercial bias and by searching across even the smaller travel booking websites in the region, iXiGO.com helps save time and money for its users and is a completely free of cost service. Unlike other travel sites, iXiGO.com is not a transactional booking site. Users search travel options on iXiGO.com and to purchase them Select and Click on the Travel Supplier link available for the chosen price. iXiGO.com, then redirects users to a deep-link page on the chosen Travel Supplier's booking site for transaction, thereby reducing time, effort and other intermediaries in the booking process. Such has been the resulting empowerment for consumers, that iXiGO.com has grown purely by word of mouth to over 1.5 million searches a month and its user-base has tripled during 2009.

Speaking on the occasion, Aloke Bajpai, Founder-CEO of iXiGO.com said - "We feel honoured by our selection as a finalist to this unique South Asian award. It feels good to know that our innovation is touching the lives of travelers across the region by offering them trustworthy information for decision-making related to their trips."

iXiGO.com has been a pioneer of several innovations in the Indian online travel industry including air fare alerts, air fare outlook graphs, a user-friendly trains search engine, the world's largest hotel search engine, and complex searches over multiple hops on regional/international low cost carriers etc. iXiGO.com has recently been voted as "India's Most Trusted Travel Site" by a user-poll conducted by pluggd.in in 2009.

About iXiGO.com:
iXiGO.com is South Asia's leading online & mobile travel search engine based out of Gurgaon, India. iXiGO.com searches across multiple airlines, hotels, trains and bus booking sites to find the best travel deals. Launched in June 2007 by IIT, INSEAD and Amadeus alumni Aloke Bajpai, Rajnish Kumar and Dharmendra Yashovardhan, iXiGO.com has been recognized by NASSCOM as India's Top-100 Innovator. BusinessToday and Wall Street Journal/Mint have named it among India's 10 hottest startups in 2008 for its unique market approach, product usability, and passionate management team.

iXiGO is backed by BAF Spectrum, a Singapore-based seed-investment fund. For more information about iXiGO, visit www.ixigo.com or m.ixigo.com (mobile).

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