India's Billion Dollar Startup Club
Zomato – 1 Billion
While serving at Bain & Company, colleagues Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah decided to scan restaurant menus and upload it on an intranet website which was pretty much encouraged. Realizing they had struck with a potential game changer, the duo launched FoodieBay in 2008, which in 2010 was renamed to Zomato. The company has been regularly acquiring smaller startups in its attempts to expand its customer base. Today Zomato covers one million restaurants across 22 countries.
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