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If You Need Answers
Varun Gupta to Problems That Have
Founder & CEO
Multiple Variables
to be Assessed and
Which Will Lead to
Meaningful Emotional
and Financial Impact,
We Want to be the
Platform of Choice
MeTripping:
An Intelligent Travel Search Platform That Helps Consumers Make the
Best Travel Decisions by Scanning Billions of Data Points in the World
eTripping is an intelligent engine to help people make the at Trans Maldivian Airways, a
travel search platform hard decisions. If you need answers ~1,000 person company and the
Mthat helps consumers to problems that have multiple world’s largest seaplane operator,
make the best travel decisions by variables to be assessed and which then owned by Blackstone – one of
scanning billions of data points in will lead to meaningful emotional the world’s largest private equity
the world. Our applied AI engine and financial impact, we want to be investors. Before that he was the
provides best recommendations the platform of choice. Founder & Managing Director
for each user’s needs on where to The Guardian Angle of Zuna Capital Partners, LLC
go, how to get there, where to stay (a private investment firm). He
and what to do. No static packages Varun Gupta, the Founder started his career with KPMG
created by an ‘expert’. No ops or & CEO, has over 12 years of in Bangalore and moved to the
customer support or call centres experience in industries varying Vedanta Group thereafter before
to sell packages to you. We use from Accounting to Mining to going to the US for his MBA.
the information from millions of Investing to Travel & Hospitality. Taking Challenges as
travelers to understand what the A MBA graduate from Harvard Opportunities
best fit is for each traveler. Business School and a Chartered
Evolving Vision Accountant, before MeTripping The biggest challenge is also the
biggest opportunity. The Travel
Varun was heading Corporate
Our vision is to be the search Strategy, IT & Hospitality Services industry is massive with multiple
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