RailYatri acqui-hires food delivery startup YatraChef

Noida based RailYatri, a crowd-sourced platform that provides travel-related information to passengers has acqui-hired food delivery technology startup YatraChef. The YatraChef team will now manage pan India supply side of RailYatri's in transit delivery business. The financials of the deal were not disclosed.

With this deal, RailYatri has further strengthened its supply side commerce capabilities as it continues to add new offerings to its travel marketplace. Manish Rathi, CEO and co-founder RailYatri, said, "YatraChef brings a deep experience of over four years in food delivery and vendor management. It has a track-record of delivering outstanding consumer experience to travelers. YatraChef’s skills will help us jointly develop new offerings that would redefine the traveler experience with RailYatri. We are delighted to have them on board."

YatraChef, founded in May 2013 by Arun Rajan and Rameez Ashraf has operations in 145 railway stations across the country. YatraChef, co-founder, and CEO, Arun Rajan said, "Having partnered with RailYatri for some time now, it was an obvious decision to join hands as we can make a much bigger impact together. We are excited to be part of the RailYatri family and look forward to continuing growing stronger than before."

He further added that the firm will be looking at delivering medicines and books among other things in the future.