Friday, March 29

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BookMyShow Picks Up 75% Stake in Pune Based Townscript
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BookMyShow Picks Up 75% Stake in Pune Based Townscript

Entertainment ticketing platform BookMyShow today said it has bought 75 per cent stake in Pune-based Townscript for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2014 by Sachin Sharma and Sanchit Malik, Townscript is a DIY (do it yourself) event registration and ticketing platform that allows users to set up events like workshops, conferences and exhibitions. Its platform has already facilitated 12,000 such events across major cities as well as smaller cities like Ludhiana and Jaipur. "With this investment, we now have a majority stake in Townscript and we plan to help them take lead in this category while empowering small and medium event organisers over a marketplace model," Ashish Hemrajani, CEO and co-founder at BookMyShow, said. "We will use the investment primarily for improving the prod...