Bangalore based Thrillophilia, a experience travel marketplace, has raised $200,000 in angel funding led by Hyderabad Angels with participation from iLabs Venture Capital Fund, Navlok Ventures and Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE-IIMA), reports NextBigWhat. The funds raised will be used for curation of local vendors.
Thrillophilia is essentially a marketplace where businesses/individuals can offer their services to provide fun activities in India for local travelers and International travelers. At the time of writing this article we found interesting activities like team building activities, trekking, rappelling, Wildlife safari, cycling, among others on the portal. The site claims that it currently offers a total of 1,432 travel options. Thrillophilia has clients such as SBI, Satyam, Indian Oils, among others.
Thrillophilia competes with Mumbai-based Tushky Events & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd which runs Tushky, an online activity marketplace and had raised Rs 35 lakh in September 2012.
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N1 Media Pvt Ltd, a content company, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in growth equity from Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund (RVCF), reports Techcircle. RVCF has invested in the company through its SME Tech fund which invests in IT, education, healthcare, agro products, among others. It’s not how the company plans to use the funds raised.
Founded by Arup Ghosh in 2000, N1 Media provides content in the field of news and sports videos to television channels apart from mobile and online sites.N1 Media also provides consultancy services to start up TV channels with a consulting from operation, workflow setup, on-air packaging, studio design, content generation, among others. While the company’s site seems to be down, Business Standard suggests that it has syndication partners such as Midday.com.
