Yatra (company)

Yatra.com is an Indian online travel agency and travel search engine. It was founded by Dhruv Shringi, Manish Amin and Sabina Chopra in August 2006.

History
In April 2012, it became the second-largest online travel service in India, with a 30 percent share of the inr 370000000000 market for online travel-related transactions. It launched “holiday-cum-shopping card” with State Bank of India (SBI).

In September 2013, Yatra.com suffered a data breach of more than 5 million users records, exposing email and physical addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers along with both PINs and passwords stored in plain text.

In November 2013, Yatra.com launched e-gift cards in collaboration with Qwikcilver.

In January 2016, Yatra.com appointed Vikrant Mudaliar as a chief marketing officer. He previously served as chief sales and marketing officer at Lenskart.com. It was publicly listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "YTRA" in December of the same year.

In July 2019, Ebix, a US-based company, planned to acquire Yatra.com but the acquisition was cancelled in June 2020.

In June 2020, Yatra.com announced an underwritten public offering at $11.5 mn and laid off about 400 employees around the same time.

In June 2021, Yatra collaborated with Oyo Rooms, Airbnb, and EaseMyTrip to form the Confederation of Hospitality, Technology and Tourism Industry (CHATT), an industry body for the tourism sector of India.

In 2023, Yatra Online listed on the Indian stock exchanges after its initial public offering.

Acquisitions
Yatra.com made three acquisitions: ticket consolidator Travel Services International (TSI) in October 2010, global distribution system provider Magicdom and Indian events and entertainment portal BuzzInTown. All were acquired for undisclosed amounts. In July 2012, Yatra.com acquired a 100% stake in Travelguru. In 2016, Yatra.com acquired-hired Mumbai-based Travel-logs.in, which specializes in customized city walks and private tours.

Collaboration

 * Yatra.com partners with Amazon Business to cater to Hospitality Partners, Aug 2020.

Investors
Early investors included Reliance Venture Asset Management Ltd, Web18 of TV18 Group (a subsidiary of Network 18), Norwest Venture Partners and Intel Capital. In April 2011, it announced funding of inr 2000000000 from investors including Valiant Capital Management, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) under Promod Haque's management and Intel Capital.