Zomato
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The Zomato homepage in Greater Vancouver
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| Type of business | Private |
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| Available in | English, Turkish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Italian |
| Founded | July 2008 |
| Headquarters | Gurgaon, Haryana, India |
| Area served | India, Australia, United States, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Malaysia |
| Founder(s) | Deepinder Goyal, Pankaj Chaddah |
| CEO | Deepinder Goyal |
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| Industry | Consumer Services |
| Services | Restaurant Search & Discovery, Online Ordering, Table Reservations & Management, Whitelabel Apps, POS Systems |
| Employees | 2000+ |
| Slogan(s) | Never have a bad meal |
| Website | zomato |
| Alexa rank |
 523 (March 2016[update]) |
| Advertising | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 90 million visits monthly |
| Current status | Online |
| Native client(s) on | Windows Phone, iOS, watchOS, Android, Universal Windows Platform (Windows 10 Mobile, Windows 10) |
Zomato is a restaurant search and discovery service founded in 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah. It currently operates in 23 countries, including India, Australia and the United States. It provides information and reviews on restaurants, including images of menus where the restaurant does not have its own website.
The service began as "Foodiebay" In November 2010, Foodiebay was renamed as Zomato. Between 2010-13, Zomato raised approximately US$16.7 million from Info Edge (India) giving them a 57.9% stake in Zomato.
By 2011, Zomato launched in Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad and introduced smartphone applications. With the introduction of [[.xxx]] domains in 2011, Zomato also launched zomato.xxx, a site dedicated to food porn. The company also launched a print version of the website content, "Citibank Zomato Restaurant Guide", in collaboration with Citibank in May 2012, but it has since been discontinued.
In September 2012, Zomato expanded overseas to the United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka,Qatar, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and South Africa. In 2013, the company launched in New Zealand,Turkey, Brazil, and Indonesia with its website and apps available in Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, and English. In November 2013, it raised an additional US$37 million from Sequoia Capital and Info Edge (India). In April 2014, Zomato launched its services in Portugal. In July,it made its first acquisition by buying Menu-mania for an undisclosed sum. The company pursued other acquisitions such as Lunchtime.cz (from the Czech Republic) and Obedovat.sk (from Slovakia) for a combined US$3.25 million.
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