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safe, convenient and fun-filled                                           The Challenges Faced In Initial
        travel experiences.                   We are currently focusing           Years
        c. Chat Based Helpdesk                    on going global and             Once I figured out which problem
        CoRover’s chat-based helpdesk            onboarding as many               to solve and which solution to
        connects travelers with operators        clients as possible on           implement,the biggest challenge I
        (Bus, Train, Flight) real time. This                                      faced during the initial years was
        intergrated cloud-based app keeps                                         to arrange for capital. Once the
        travelers updated with important       CaaS™, which will help             capital was arranged it was really
        notification, offers etc. Also, it     many businesses reduce             important for me to give all my
        allows users to share feedback,        their cost by eliminating/         time to my startup and focus on
        experience & complaints directly to                                       establishing it since I was working
                                                   reducing resources
        operator(s).                             our scalable platform  ““        then it was getting difficult for me
        d. CoRover Trip                                                           to balance both job and startup
        CoRover is the best and award-                                            work. So all I would suggest
        winning modern Social Network        requiring urgent medical attention,   my peers is to have capital and
        for travelers that gives the best    to wait for the next station to      dedicate their time completely to
        traveling experience in your life    receive medical help. Ironically,    their idea, focus on it and work
                                                                                  rigorously. I believe just having
        and will keep you connected with     there was a doctor on-board, which  an idea cannot hold good until
        the co-passengers traveling in the   I got to know when I was looking
        same bus, train or flight in real    out for a charger in another coach.   and unless you dedicate yourself
        time, with no ads and in complete    This experience made me realize      completely to it. However, we can
        privacy. Not only that, our          that there should be a way through   do POC and test the waters before
        traveler’s social network app will   which the travellers should be able   jumping full time into your startup.
        help you get more friends while      to connect with each other. In case   Future Plans
        you are traveling. Isn’t it Amazing?  of special need, the passengers     We are currently focusing on going
        Travel Buddy - Your buddy for any    should have ways to connect with     global and onboarding as many
        travel related needs                 the service providers, emergency     clients as possible on our scalable
        Cost Share & Save - Find someone     responders, vendors and other staff   platform CaaS™, which will help
        who is ready to share a taxi or hotel  as well. Though I was still involved   many businesses reduce their cost
                                                                                  by eliminating/reducing resources
        room with you                        with my job as a software product    to reply via email or phone, and
        Medical Help – Find doctors or       developer, at the back of my mind    even earn revenue through ads &
        medicines on the go                  I always wanted to do something      transactions on our ChatBot.
        Security - Help find a thief by      about this. My experience of         NextGen CaaS, with multilingual
        clicking and broadcast in the trip’s   more than 14 years helped me,      support, voice support, NLP based,
        group chat                           but collecting the capital was a     conversational, VR enabled 3D
        Hotel Booking - Best Deals           challenge. After several efforts, I   avatar, launching soon.
        Worldwide, Pay after Stay! Starting   launched the product in the market   The Upcoming Years For
        Rs. 260 ($4) per night.              to test its Proof of Concept, which   Corover
        Founder’s Talk on Conceiving         was indeed a success. I was so       We want to be the biggest
        Startup Idea                         passionate to start my own travel    managed, ChatBot-as-a-Service
                                             tech product, that I liquidated my
        About 10 years ago, I was            personal assets and got a bank loan   platform in the world, where we
        travelling from Delhi to Bangalore   for my seed capital. This is how I   would offer ChatBot to all the
        by train. I discovered a huge gap in   floated my concept in the market,   websites with revenue making
        the way people commute. I realized   in the name of CoRover®, which       opportunities through non-
        that there was no way of interaction   has not only attracted the attention   intruding ads in ChatBot, as
        between the passengers, in case      of many service providers but also   implemented in our website, Indian
        of any need or emergency. Had        received numerous awards and         Railways/IRCTC site and many
        it been so, there would not have     accolades.                           others.
        been the need of a fellow passenger

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