Pickyourtrail

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PickYourTrail is an Indian company providing customised tours and holidays. Based out of Chennai, it was founded in 2014 by Hari Ganapathy and Srinath Shankar. They got the idea of the startup after their experience from a self-planned trip to Europe in 2012. [1] [2] In February 2019 the company raised 21 crore ($3 million) in a Series A round of funding. [3] [4] [5] It operated only international tours till 2020, and diversified to include domestic tours due to restrictions on international travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [6] The same year it partnered with ZestMoney, a fintech company, to provide an EMI option for their customers to pay for the itinerary. [7] In March 2022 the company opened an office in Dubai, its first branch outside of India. [8] It also tied up with Maldives' tourism authority, the Maldives Marketing and Public Relation Corporation in 2022 to promote tourism in the country. [9]

Pickyourtrail
IndustryOnline Travel
Founded2014, Chennai, India
FoundersSrinath Shankar, Hari Ganapathy
Headquarters
Chennai
,
India
Website Pickyourtrail.com

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