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Exchange Services. as they searched online for a Thomas Cook, Muthoot Forex,
In 2012 he took in-charge of Finex forex solution. Our traffic grew UAE Exchange, Cox & Kings and
Orient Exchange.
organically, and we could reduce
Forex & Equity Services Pvt Ltd our marketing expenditure
as Managing Director at the Age significantly. • More than 6500+ forex stores
of 30. As a Full Fledged Money spread across many major cities
Changer, he used to Buy and Sell ExTravelMoney saw a growth of and towns in India.
foreign currencies, Travel Cards & nearly 300% in visitors as people • More than 1 lakh customers
serving money transfer customers. were searching for legitimate served till date
In 2015, he founded Extravelmoney ways to buy foreign currencies Awards
Technosol Pvt Ltd as an innovative online. The demonetization
technology start-up in the fintech drive also curbed unauthorized • Selected for NASSCOM 10K
space to completely transform the foreign exchange activities and StartUp programme – 2016
way Indians do foreign exchange brought in more forex transactions • Finalists of India FinTech
transactions. under legal purview, benefitting Awards, 2016
ExTravelMoney Initial Struggles ExTravelMoney.
A problem that we faced during the ExTravelMoney’s Journey Till • Winner, “IT Startup of the Year”
category, KMA-NASSCOM IT
Date
initial days of launching our startup Awards 2017
was people were not aware of our Milestones
online platform to compare and • ExTravelMoney launched with • Winner “Best Emerging Startup
buy forex services. 3 money changers on board and in Kerala” by Project Management
The demonetisation drive helped 2000+ forex stores in 2015 Institute of Kerala (PMI Kerala) –
2018
a lot in this regard as it curbed • Currently signed up with more
the forex black market and more than 25 money changers including
people discovered ExTravelMoney
