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Footprint Ventures Invests $2 Million In Ticketvala.com
Wed, 11/14/2007 - 19:32 — Sahad P VBangalore-headquartered Footprint Ventures has invested $2 million in Ticketvala.com, a portal for booking bus tickets, according to Mint. Footprint is co-founded by Neill Brownstein, who was also one of the co-founders the Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners.
Footprint has also made another undisclosed investment in India, besides Ticketvala. Footrpint's focus is to invest in companies in the India-Israel-India corridor. Footprint is looking to put $2-4 million in lifestyle, retail, financial services, security, education, clean technology and life sciences. The other co-founders are Linda Brownstein, Josh Bornstein and Shalini Elassery.
Besides Ticketvala, there is another company in this space - Redbus.in, which is part of TiE-EAP (Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program).
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Vinay - do you also sell bus tickets thru the call center? What do you expect the split between online and call center to be given India bus traveller profile.
I have found redbus to be far far better than flightraja in bus tickets. They dont hv as many options as redbus.
Its time for e-commerce to take off in sectors other than air-travel.
we are the largest player in the bus space in the country booking over 500 tickets daily online..
Checkout Ticketgoose.com. Another cool website to book bus tickets. Currently serving Tamilnadu sector and has the maximum number of routes in this sector. Will be expanding to other states pretty soon.