Bixee Bixee is a former
job search engine for India, and an example of both
vertical search and
metasearch (not to be confused with Bixby, Samsung's voice assistant). It was launched in late 2005. The company also launched Pixrat, which is a social photo bookmarking service. Bixee was acquired by ibibo, the Indian arm of the
South African media giant
Naspers, in December 2006.
Goibibo Goibibo was launched in 2009 and is part of ibibo Group. It was co-founded by
Sanjay Bhasin and
Vikalp Sahni. Goibibo is India's largest hotels aggregation and also one of the leading air aggregator.
PayU India 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. 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. PayU India launched of a first-of-its kind premium deferral payment facility for
consumers 'LazyPay' aimed at those who transact digitally for any amount between ₹500 and ₹2,500 and is an option to pay later.
redbus.in Redbus.in became a part of ibibo group via a 100% acquisition in June 2013. redBus is India's most popular online bus ticketing platform, both on mobile and on
desktop. The business also owns BOGDS, a
cloud computing service for bus operators, and SeatSeller, a GDS for bus inventory distribution. redBus has started its carpooling and bike pooling platform called rPool in Delhi.
YourBus In March 2014, ibibo Group acquired
Bangalore-based bus tracking startup YourBus. YourBus, founded by
BITS-Pilani graduates from Rajesh Mallipeddi and Satya Padmanabham in 2011, 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 the users about the
arrival time at their pick-up point along with
SMS updates.
Djubo In August 2015 ibibo Group bought a minority stake in cloud-based hotel services startup Djubo for an undisclosed amount. Djubo, founded in February 2015 by Tarun Gulati and Sankalp Goel, manages hotel bookings for over 100 hotels through a single interface.
redbus.pe and redbus.co In July 2016 Redbus acquired
Peru-based bus tracking startup Busportal. In 2017, they founded a chapter of Redbus in
Colombia. The company received ₹10.7 Crores infusion of funding from its
Singapore-based parent company, Ibibo Group Holdings. Prior to this, in November 2019, It had also received ₹71.73 Crores. ==Merger==