Mobikon Inks $1.7M

Mobikon Asia Pte., a Singapore-India digital marketing startup, has raised $1.7 million in new funding. Singapore-based Jungle Ventures led the round, which included participation from angel investors including Ravi Mantha.

 

PRESS RELEASE

Mobikon Asia Pte Ltd, a cross-border Singapore-India startup that offers an innovative integrated digital marketing and customer engagement platform for the hospitality and retail industry, announced today that it has closed a new round of investment, totaling US$ 1.7 Million, led by Singapore-based Jungle Ventures and supported by regional super angel investors including Ravi Mantha, Member of the Board of Trustees at The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).

 

Mobikon’s flagship product KONEKT, is an integrated suite of digital marketing, analytics and customer engagement applications that are used by over 100 customers in hospitality and retail sectors in India and other regions in South East Asia.

 

“Our products help hospitality and retail customers connect with their consumers by acquiring consumer data in a fast and an effective manner, engage with consumers via social, mobile and web channels and help these customers improve customer satisfaction and retention as well as accelerate revenue”, said Founder-CEO Samir Khadepaun. “We will use new funds to increase sales and business development activities in geographies that are showing tremendous potential for our products and services”, added Samir, CEO, Mobikon Asia Pte. Ltd.

 

The startup, founded in 2009 by Samir and Salil with support from some entrepreneurs and industry professionals from India and US, has now grown to a young and enthusiastic team of over 30 people in India and Singapore.

 

With Headquartered in Singapore, Mobikon is a pioneer in the cloud-based digital marketing and customer engagement platform for the hospitality and retail industries. Mobikon’s’KONEKT ‘ branded range of products helps several Hotels, Restaurants and Spa’s in India, South East Asia, Africa and Australia connect and engage with their customers, resulting in accelerated

 

direct revenues and increased customer retention and satisfaction.

 

Jungle Ventures is a Singapore native venture capital firm that provides early stage investments and business building infrastructure to startups across Asia Pacific. Jungle focuses on early stage investments into Singapore, India, South East Asia and other regional hotbeds of innovation.

 

Notes to Editor

 

Mobikon Asia Pte. Ltd. believe in thinking out of the box, and build amazing products, which will change the way hospitality engages with their customers. Our unique products, includes Guest Feedback Systems, Restaurant Concierge, Banquet Booking Systems, Mobile Engagement Ticker, Digital CRM and many more to follow.

 

Our ‘KONEKT Digital Marketing Platform’ today helps over 100 plus Hotels, Restaurants and Spa’s in over 5 different countries.

We are pioneer in Hospitality marketing platform and are expanding across India, South East Asia, Middle East and Australia with offices in Singapore, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Surat and more to follow.

Founded by Samir & Salil in early 2009, the company has grown from a 3 people company to a young and enthusiastic team of over 28 people spanning across India and Singapore.

Our vision is to be a market leader and a pioneer in Digital Marketing and Guest Engagement platform for Hospitality Industry.