Local reports say that Ticketgoose, a Chennai, India-based online bus ticketing service, has raised approximately $560k in seed funding.
Backers include business angel R Narayanan and other US-based investors.
The company, which also operates from Bangalore and Hyderabad, intends to use the capital to expand its reach across the country. It is opening offices in Pune and Goa.
Promoted by Efficsys InfoTech India Pvt. Ltd. and launched in 2007 by Karthi Easwaramoorthy, Arun Athiappan and Vasu Ramasamy, TicketGoose is a ticketing web portal which provides online booking facility and information covering around 4,500 destinations across southern India.
It currently has more than 250 bus travel partners and around 100 employees.
FinSMEs
23/10/2012