Airbnb Acquired Background Check Startup Founded by Indians
Leading online lodging service Airbnb is buying a California-based background-check startup founded by three Indian-origin entrepreneurs in 2014 as it seeks to protect its users and hosts from undesirable and fraudulent people.
A report in Fortune magazine said Airbnb is buying Trooly, a startup that specialises in technology that helps conduct background checks.
Trooly was co-founded by Savi Baveja, Anish Das Sarma and Nilesh Dalvi.
According to profiles of the founders on the Trooly website, Baveja, who is also the company's CEO, had previously served as senior partner at the strategy consulting firm Bain & Company, and a member of the Bain Board of Directors.
Sarma, the companys Chief Technology Officer, is a gold medalist from IIT and has worked at Google Research and Y...