5 rising startups in India – Feb 14, 2017

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A day dedicated to those taking over our hearts has also been a day for taking over India’s companies. A ticket booking platform acquires a self-booking site. An app for physician queues ups its UX ante. Meanwhile, three startups gain funding.

Bookmyshow

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Ticket and event booking platform Bookmyshow has acquired a 75 percent stake in Townscript, an Eventbrite-like site that allows people to ticket their own events. The amount of the stake remained undisclosed.

The acquisition will aid Bookmyshow to offer similar services, something the company had been trying to develop on its own for a while.

Pune-based Townscript was founded in January 2014 by Sachin Sharma and Sanchit Malik. Users can create registration for their own events and charge if necessary. The portal takes 4 percent on transctions and US$0.15 per booking. Through data analytics, it tracks points like event progress and purchaser demographics.

Bookmyshow acquired ticketing platform MastiTickets last month.

Bookmyshow was founded in 2007 by Ashish Hemrajani, Parikshit Dar, and Rajesh Balpande.

See: Bookmyshow acquires India’s answer to Eventbrite

Sminq

Queues aren’t fun at any age. Photo credit: Sean Drellinger.

Sminq, a queue management app (it literally stands for “See Me In No Queue”) has acquired software service company CodePandora in a cash-and-equity deal.

Founded in September 2012 by Bjorn Mascarenhas in Pune, CodePandora works with UX/UI design, app development for mobile and web, software development, and data visualization – presenting data in forms such as graphs and charts. For the past year, it’s been one of Sminq’s technology partners. Bjorn will now lead UX efforts at Sminq.

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