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Bus ticketing site TicketGoose.com offers travel insurance
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"Bus ticketing site TicketGoose.com offers travel insurance"

Published in travelbizmonitor.com TicketGoose.com, an online bus ticketing portal, has tied up with United India Insurance to offer its customers travel insurance. The policy will provide personal accident cover along with coverage for bus travel-related risks like emergency medical expenses, damages or loss of baggage, and any consequential loss due to disruption of travel. The insurance […]
TicketGoose partners with Niki.ai to launch an intuitive chatbot
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"TicketGoose partners with Niki.ai to launch an intuitive chatbot"

Published in DataQuest Online bus ticketing company TicketGoose.com has partnered Niki.ai, a start-up focused on Artificial Intelligence, to provide customers with a simplified and convenient bus ticket booking experience with the launch of an intuitive chatbot. This partnership is aimed at enhancing the customer experience on the mobile app. TicketGoose’s partnership with Niki will enable […]
Align your product with the business model of the customer
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"Align your product with the business model of the customer"

Published in FirstFewCustomers Arun Athiappan, Co Founder and CEO of Ticketgoose, began the company along with Karthi Easwaramoorthy and Vasudevan Ramaswamy. Arun was an entrepreneur in the past from 1992 till 2000 and was an IT consultant for a few years before stating once again With his neighbor Karthi who was in the US for […]
TicketGoose raises INR 18 Crore from US-based Indventure
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"TicketGoose raises INR 18 Crore from US-based Indventure"

Published in IamWire Chennai based online bus ticketing platform TicketGoose has raised INR 18 crore in a funding round led by US based Indventure to  scale up its operations, hire talent and enhance customer experience. The company was looking to raise INR 25 crore for the second round of funding since last year. Previously it […]
TicketGoose gets Rs 18 crore funding from US-based Indventure
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"TicketGoose gets Rs 18 crore funding from US-based Indventure"

Published in EconomicTimes   US-based Indventure has invested Rs 18 crore in Chennai’s online bus ticketing company TicketGoose. com. The firm will use the funds to scale up its operations, hire talent and enhance customer experience. “I shopped around in California, Chicago and New York and raised the funding within a month,” said Karthi Easwaramoorthy, […]
TicketGoose.com to raise $20 m next year
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"TicketGoose.com to raise $20 m next year"

Published in Hindu BusinessLine Oct 31, 2013 MUMBAI, OCT. 31 Chennai-based online bus reservation service portal TicketGoose.com, which raised $3 million (around Rs 18 crore) from Indventure, a Chicago-based investor last week, is planning to bring in another $20 million (around Rs 120 crore) next year. The capital raised this month by the Chennai-based start-up, […]
Bus ticketing portal TicketGoose raises $2.9M from US-based Indventure
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"Bus ticketing portal TicketGoose raises $2.9M from US-based Indventure"

Published in vccircle on 25 October, 2013 Chennai-based Efficsys Infotech India Pvt Ltd that owns and operates the bus ticketing portal TicketGoose.com, has raised $2.9 million (Rs 18 crore) from US-based investor Indventure. The capital raised will be used for scaling up its operations, increasing the workforce and enhancing customer experience. Set up in 2007 by […]
Chasing a golden goose in the bus transport sector
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"Chasing a golden goose in the bus transport sector"

Published in DtNext on Dec 30,2016 Aiming to disrupt the bus ticketing and transport market with a slew of value added services and differentiating features, Ticketgoose.com, an end to end bus ticketing portal and aggregator, based out of Chennai, is now making its presence felt in a big way in the state. Representative Image Chennai: The […]
An entrepreneur is one who conceives and executes a unique business idea
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"An entrepreneur is one who conceives and executes a unique business idea"

Published in theweekendleader.com on July 07, 2014 For 44-year-old Arun Athiappan, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Ticket Goose.com, an online bus ticketing company headquartered in Chennai, an entrepreneur is one who conceives and executes a unique business idea that provides a solution to an existing problem in society. Making a distinction between a businessman and […]
GST: Lower tax on A/C bus fare, 3% more on online bookings.
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"GST: Lower tax on A/C bus fare, 3% more on online bookings."

Time of India – Published on Jun 30, 2017, 07:56 IST Tamil Nadu Omni Bus Owners Association president A Afzal told TOI, “GST will not affect bus fares in a big way. There is no service charge for non air-conditioned (A/C) buses anyway. For A/C buses, service charge is lower by 1% under GST”. Members affiliated […]
Bots will replace apps in the next 5 years:
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"Bots will replace apps in the next 5 years:"

Economic Times – Published on March 23, 2017, 09:29 IST Niki.ai is an artificial intelligence firm founded by four friends from IIT Kharagpur- Sachin Jaiswal, Nitin Babel, Shishir Modi and Keshav Prawasi. The startup is bringing conversational commerce to a wide range of services like travel, recharge, utility bill payments and food ordering. Founded in March […]
Private bus operators mint profits
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"Private bus operators mint profits"

DECCAN CHRONICLE PublishedDec 26, 2015, 12:21 pm IST Chennai: With the holiday season witnessing an unusual surge in bus travellers to neighboring states, travel agencies complain that a couple of private bus operators are hiking ticket prices to exorbitant levels. A travel agent based at Egmore says that for the last five days certain private travel operators […]