Successful Story of Zomato
by FuGenX Technologies Mobile application developer IndiaIn our daily
life, food plays a very crucial role.It’s our first need!
This success story is related to Food. How a person can find a business opportunity on food?
Yes, we are
talking about Zomato- an online restaurant discovery website and mobile app
founded in 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah. Presently Zomato provide
its services across 10,000+ cities and 23 countries around the globe with more
than 2000+ employees. It is headquartered in New Delhi, India. Its monthly user
visits are around 19 million, which tells its success.
CEO Goyal says
“my mornings are usually reserved for discussing the entire strategy with the
team, including issues like legal issues, competitor moves, content
acquisition, marketing, enhancement and sustainability”.
Story behind Zomato
It all started in Delhi, in the
cafeteria of Bain & Company, a prestigious consultancy in Delhi, where
Deepender and Pankaj worked. They saw people standing in a queue and look at the
menu for the food they have to order during the lunch time. From there they got
an idea of “Foodiebay” which became a prologue to make them successful
Entrepreneurs.
Firstly, the founders of Zomato
started scanning the all the menu items in the restaurant and listed it on an
intranet website, after seeing a huge traffic to the site, they decided to
launch their site publicly in the year 2008. After launching the website, they
started listing restaurants in Delhi NCR, and quickly extended to Kolkata and
then Mumbai.
On
November 2010, Foodiebay changed its name to Zomato. The reason behind changing
its name was to extend it beyond the food sector and also to avoid possible
confusion with the brand “ebay”, which sounds
similar to “Foodiebay”.
Zomato’s Products and Services
In the starting, Zomato only focused
on the restaurant searching and discovery. But now they are spreading their
business with many other services including Table Reservations, Online
Ordering, POS systems and Cashless payments.
Acquisition by Zomato
In 2015,
Zomato acquired MaplePOS and renamed it to Zomato Base. MaplePOS is a
cloud-based point of sale product for restaurants. It provides merchants
features such as inventory, cloud-based menu, recipe management, real time
analytics, and electronic receipts, etc. It also has a built-in payment option
to accept debit and credit card payments.
NexTable, a US-based table reservation
and restaurant management platform, is another major acquisition by Zomato.
Zomato Fundraising
To get a
huge startup force to their company, Zomato raised funds of around US$ 1
million from Info Edge. After their continuous success in the market, they
again raised fund of US$ 3.5million from the same investor in September 2011.
Till now,
the Info Edge funded $25.4 million in the Zomato and it also holds a 50.1%
stake in the company. Vy Capital and Sequoia Capital are other major investors
who’ve invested in Zomato.
Zomato App
The Zomato
users’ number got tremendously increased in 2011 when the company introduced its
app (ZomatoApp) across all major mobile platforms like iOS, Android, Windows
Phone and BlackBerry. As of January 2015, there were millions of users
accessing Zomato actively through mobile devices from around the world.
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Zomato like App?
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