Are you looking for customizable travel itineraries scattered across the globe?
By Prathamesh Patil
Welcome to Mygola. The Bangalore & US based trip planning startup lets users discover, customize & instantly book itineraries all around the world. Mygola has a huge collection of handpicked trips sourced directly from real travelers.
A user can pick a default itinerary or choose to build his own.
Mygola wants users to do away with the tedious task of planning a trip a including destination sourcing, navigating through the maze of Google Maps, bookings and then trying to stay with the organized logistics. Instead it wanted to grant users to experience & transport them to desired destination even as they were planning their trip. That required ranking infrastructure, evocative images, relevant videos, stunning panoramic views and authentic tips left by travelers from all over the web.
The patented algorithms & big data analysis is empowering the platform to the next level. The business model has the potentially partner with all of the transaction-focused companies out there.
Mygola is founded by Ex-Google Executive & travel enthusiast Anshuman Bapna & fellow IITan Prateek Sharma in 2009 with an aim of building an usual company to simplify the usually complex problem of travel planning. Bapna sold his start-up RightHalf when he was studying at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.
The startup has recently announced $1.5 million Series A funding led by Helion Venture Partners, with participation from existing investor Blumberg Capital. Helion’s Ashish Gupta will join the board of Mygola as a part of the deal. In December 2011, it secured $1 million in seed funding from Blumberg Capital & Dave McClure, founder of Silicon Valley-based accelerator 500 Start-ups.
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