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Travel App Ixigo acquires Confirmtkt
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Travel App Ixigo acquires Confirmtkt

Travel app ixigo acquire 100 percent shares of Bengaluru-based online train discovery and booking platform Confirmtkt in an undisclosed cash and stock deal. The founders of ixigo will join the Confirmtkt board and existing investors of Confirmtkt, including Venture Catalysts, will be exiting the company fully as a part of the deal, ixigo said in a statement on Thursday. Both companies will continue to run independently, post this acquisition. Ixigo and Confirmtkt are official IRCTC B2C premium ticketing partners for online train reservations in India. "This deal will help the group to consolidate its presence in Tier 2/3/4 markets with its combined user base of nearly 200 million Indians", the statement said. Aloke Bajpai and Rajnish Kumar, Co-Founders, ixigo, said, "The combi...
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Now ‘ConfirmTkt Alternates’ Will Help Waitlisted Passengers to Get Confirmed Tickets

India's train PNR predictor ConfirmTkt.com has launched a new product 'ConfirmTkt Alternates' to help the waitlisted train passengers to get confirmed tickets by unlocking all the hidden and other best available travel options. Available on Android as well as Apple iOS, the app takes into consideration the delay in the train arrivals and departures while suggesting alternates. "Sometimes no quota can get you confirmed tickets for a train journey. So we have built algorithms. We call it as ConfirmTkt Alternates. We all use these techniques to get to our destination, but we end up wasting a lot of time. Our new feature solves that problem," said Co-founder and COO of ConfirmTkt, Sripad Vaidya. "ConfirmTkt Alternates is a simple solution for the complex problem which eliminat...