OYO Rooms

In Conversation with Somnath Meher, CEO and Co-founder, WitWorks
How Blink is Going to Disrupt the Smart wearable Market! Witworks, an Indian consumer IoT firm, has just launched its first smart wearable called Blink, which is powered by Marvin OS, their own voice-based OS. Blink is now available for pre-order and starts at a price tag of INR 12,999/-.

OYO Rooms Welcomes Couples With In-App feature “Relationship Mode”
India’s Largest Branded Network of Hotels is now couple-friendly! At OYO, discrimination between guests is no longer a problem customer will have to face. With its new launch of “Relationship Mode” feature on its app, OYO welcomes unmarried couples or guests with local ID’s; a usual hassle in most hotels.

OYO Rooms Raises $62 Million From SoftBank
OYO Rooms getting bigger and better! Founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal, OYO Rooms raised a whopping $62mn from its existing investor- Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. with no participation from other existing investors including Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Gurugram-based budget hotel aggregator OYO Rooms is India’s