2007 2007 founder ashish kashyap headquarters gurgaon india india products flight bookings hotel and holiday bookings bus bookings website ibibo.com ibibo group is an online travel organization founded in january 2007 by ashish kashyap . the company is a subsidiary of naspers 1 which owns an 80 % stake in ibibo group . in february naspers announced plans to increase its stake in ibibo group to 90 % by investing additional 250 million in the company . 2 the group owns the b2c online travel aggregator goibibo and online bus ticketing platform redbus.in and has a 51 % stake in the b2b travel website travelboutiqueonline.com . 3 the company also owns a minority stake in naspers payment gateway business payu global . 4 in 2013 ibibo group was named one of the top five most trusted e commerce brands in india in the brand trust report india study 2013 . 5 contents 1 history 2 acquisition and investments 2.1 bixee.com 2.2 redbus.in 2.3 goibibo 2.4 yourbus 2.5 djubo 2.6 payu india 3 management 4 awards 5 references 6 external links history edit ibibo started as a social networking service in 2007 6 and later changed to become an e commerce and travel organization . in 2009 goibibo.com was launched . 7 acquisition and investments edit bixee.com edit bixee.com is a former job search engine for india and an example of both vertical search and metasearch . it was launched in late 2005 . bixee was founded by ruban phukan and rajesh warrier who started the company rhr networks private limited . the company also launched pixrat.com which is a social photo bookmarking service . bixee.com was acquired by ibibo the indian arm of the south african media giant naspers in december 2006 . redbus.in edit redbus.in was founded in to 2006 and it became part of ibibo group in 2013 via a 100 % acquisition . 8 9 the business also owns bogds a cloud computing service for bus operators and seatseller a gds for bus inventory distribution . 10 redbus won the global mobile innovation in travel award 11 announced by eyefortravel in march 2014 . it also won the business standard annual award for the most innovative company of 2013 . goibibo edit goibibo is an online travel aggregator headquartered at gurgaon india formed as part of the ibibo group in 2009 . 12 it permits bookings at hotels and transportation companies and can be accessed via mobile apps . in 2015 goibibo.com became the first indian ota to partner with google flight search . 13 14 goibibo.com was awarded the economic times best tech travel yourbus edit in march 2014 ibibo group acquired bangalore based bus tracking startup yourbus . 15 yourbus founded by bits pilani graduates rajesh mallipeddi and satya padmanabham in 2011 16 is a gps based bus tracking and analytics platform . the yourbus application on a smartphone shows users the location of a bus in real time on a map . it also tells users the arrival time at their pickup point with sms updates . 17 djubo edit in august 2015 ibibo group bought a minority stake in cloud based hotel services startup djubo 18 for an undisclosed amount . 19 djubo founded in february 2015 by tarun gulati and sankalp goel manages hotel bookings for over 100 hotels through a single interface . payu india edit in 2011 ibibo rolled out its payment gateway innovation called payu in the indian market to permit websites to integrate e commerce transactions through online payments . 20 with payu a business can process payment by using credit cards and debit cards for more than 50 banks and online banking for banks including icici hdfc sbi and axis bank . payu provides an api for integration and transaction analytics to improve the speed and security of payment processing . 21 management edit ashish kashyap founder & ceo ibibo group 22 23 sanjay bhasin ceo goibibo vikalp sahni cto goibibo awards edit economic times most promising brands 2015 . 24 goibibo.com is the winner of otm india s top 100 travel producers award 2015 25 goibibo.com voted as the best website of the year india 2014 26 goibibo.com was awarded the economic times best tech travel aggregator brand award for 2015 27 references edit 1 naspers sahay priyanka . ibibo to raise 250 million from naspers . http www.livemint.com . retrieved 2016 02 27 . external link in website help mih group acquires 51 % stake in tek travels the economic times apr. 2012 ibibo group secures minority stake in nasper s payu global mar. 13 2014 most trusted online brand in india the times of india feb. 26 2013 ibibo.com launched new ad commercial business wire india jan. 8 2008 . goibibo.com . redbus sold to ibibo the times of india jun. 21 2013 ibibogroup acquires redbus.in the telegraph jun. 21 2013 2 bogds eyefortravel . eyefortravel online travel insights . ibibo group . www.goibibo.com becomes the first indian ota to partner with google flight search indiantelevision.com monday 12 january 2015 google launches flight search tool for india business standard january 13 2015 the times of india mar. 21 2014 yourbus integration with redbus prompted acquisition livemint mar. 21 2014 naspers backed ibibogroup acquires online bus tracking and analytics startup yourbus in india techcrunch mar. 19 2014 djubo online hotel sales platform & crs . 3 august 28 2015 naspers launches payment gateway payu in india medianama oct. 7 2011 payu payment gateway for indian market iamwire oct. 7 2011 priyanka pani . the bl interview . the hindu business line . travel news maiden great indian travel festival to take place from apr 18 26 2015 travelbiz monitor . economic times most promising brands 2015 unveiled . goibibo.com is the winner of otm india s top 100 travel producers award 2015 04 feb 2015 . goibibo.com voted as the best website of the year india 2014 . goibibo is awarded the economic times best tech travel aggregator brand award for 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ibibo & oldid 744453273 categories internet properties established in 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