iXiGO.com is a travel search engine based in Gurgaon

Gurgaon

Gurgaon is the second largest city in the Indian state of Haryana. Gurgaon is the industrial and financial center of Haryana. It is located 30 km south of national capital New Delhi, about 10 kilometers from Dwarka Sub City and 268 km south of Chandigarh, the state capital...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. iXiGO is an infomediary

Infomediary

An infomediary works as a personal agent on behalf of consumers to help them take control over information gathered about them for use by marketers and advertisers...

 that aggregates searches for flights, hotels and buses, by searching across 100 different websites to compare prices and information across multiple travel search criteria. They do not handle booking of tickets (unlike Online Travel Agencies), but instead redirect the user to book directly from the travel provider’s page. iXiGO.com was founded by Le Travenues Technology Pvt Ltd made up of travel search enthusiasts and veterans who combine over 25 years of experience in the travel industry. Their aim is to be the “Google of all travel in India”. iXiGO’s revenue model is based on pay per click advertising, tie ups with prominent airlines and hotels in India and selling advertising space on their website. They work with over 40 hotel aggregators such as Travelguru.com and hostelworld.com and all the leading airlines in the Indian aviation sector such as Jet Airways

Jet Airways

Jet Airways is a major Indian airline based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is India's largest airline and the market leader in the domestic sector. It operates over 400 flights daily to 76 destinations worldwide. Its main hub is Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, with secondary hubs at Delhi,...

, Kingfisher Airlines

Kingfisher Airlines

Kingfisher Airlines is an airline group based in India. Its head office is Kingfisher House in Vile Parle , Mumbai. Kingfisher Airlines, through its parent company United Breweries Group, has a 50% stake in low-cost carrier Kingfisher Red....

 and Indigo Airlines. They have been voted as India’s fastest growing travel search engine.

Awards

Prior to their launch they were chosen as one of the top six startups in the internet space in India and showcased their product in the country’s premier startup showcase event, Proto.in. They were recently funded by BAF spectrum for an undisclosed sum. iXiGO.com was chosen a finalist at the Red Herring Magazine

Red Herring (magazine)

Red Herring was a technology business magazine, which flourished during the dot com boom, with global distribution and bureaus in Bangalore, Beijing, and Paris. It also sponsored conferences designed to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and technologists together. But the magazine went into...

 Global 100, 2007. and the Red Herring Asia 100, 2007, the prestigious lists of innovative companies in the World and Asia respectively. iXiGO.com was also chosen as one of NASSCOM

NASSCOM

The National Association of Software and Services Companies of IT software and services related activities for use of both the software developers as well as interested companies overseas....

’s (India's National Association of Software & Services Companies) 100 IT Innovators 2007 as well as Business Today (India)

Business Today (Business Magazine)

Business Today is an Indian fortnightly business magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1992. It had a second quarter 2010 readership of 338,000 per issue, ninth among English language magazines surveyed.-External links:...

's 10 hottest startups to watch out for in 2008.

Investment

In August 2011, iXiGO.com received $18.5 M investment from SAIF Partners and MakeMyTrip in a landmark deal for online travel in India.

External links

• iXiGO.com- official website
• iXiGO Blog