iXiGO a travel search engine for Indian online and mobile consumers, for India, from India.

iXiGO is backed by a team of returnee IITian entrepreneurs and includes a German national in its founding team that has rich travel technology experience.

The proliferation of airlines as well as online travel agencies in India means that increasingly, consumers have many places to book their tickets, but no guarantee of getting the best deals always at one place. Value-conscious consumers will thus need to spend even more time and effort in finding the travel deal they are looking for on multiple browser windows. iXiGO simplifies the travel search experience by looking across all possible sources of travel deals and content and provides up-do-date, real-time pricing and availability information with ticketing and fulfillment directly on the vendor's portal.

"Online Travel needs to evolve to the next level in India, and with the arrival of iXiGO, Indian consumers shall be freed from the pains of non-transparent pricing, slow search results and barely-usable interfaces. Travel 2.0 has arrived!" - said Aloke Bajpai, the Founder & CEO of iXiGO. An electrical engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from INSEAD, Bajpai had worked with Amadeus Europe, the world's top travel technology company, before deciding to return to India and build the "new new thing" for the Indian market along with his Amadeus, IIT and INSEAD colleagues.

When asked how iXiGO will differentiate its offering from other online travel portals, Bajpai responded - "We don't sell tickets. We tell you where you can buy them and then give you a direct checkout on the provider's website. We are thus driven totally by the needs of our users, and we will keep innovating in travel search technology to help travelers find the best deals online – wherever they might be".

In April this year, iXiGO has launched a comprehensive hotel search engine where never before rates and access to over 4,500 hotels across 320 Indian cities.

iXiGO's new hotel search provides users with more choice than ever before, as it includes budget accommodation across hostels, guest-houses, serviced apartments and villas. A sample search for hotels in Bangalore retrieved 185 properties with more than 25 options available at less than 1500 Rs. Per room night.

iXiGO's hotel search accesses more than 30 leading national and international hotel booking websites, enabling comparisons of room tariffs of the same hotel across multiple sites within a few seconds. The hotel search engine sorts accommodation by price, star ratings, amenities and allows detailed views for maps and photos; all in a single webpage.

An instant keyword search on names, addresses and filters on best value within hotels narrows down the search – features so far restricted to only select international travel portals.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Aloke Bajpai, Founder & CEO of iXiGO said, "We are bringing our disruptive flight search model to hotel bookings by allowing instant real-time search across hotel booking sites.

By comparing aggregators like Expedia,  Travelocity, Orbitz, Desiya and some exclusive international content partners such as HotelsCombined, we hope to strategically integrate with booking sites of independent hotels and hotel chains in the future, to better manage their yields and lower their internet distribution costs".

iXiGO's rapid growth is a direct result of its disruptive model that allows travelers to search and book directly on airline sites, saving them time and money while reducing distribution costs for airlines. iXiGO has been named as one of the most innovative startups in the world by Red Herring magazine and NASSCOM.