{"id":17293,"date":"2020-08-11T15:05:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T15:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itilite.com\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2024-02-08T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:00:15","slug":"mayank-kukreja-itilite-simplify-business-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itilite.com\/blog\/mayank-kukreja-itilite-simplify-business-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"How ITILITE Raised $18M for Simplifying Business Travel\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"
This interview first appeared on Asia Tech Daily<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n ITILITE founders Mayank Kukreja and Anish Khadiya<\/p>\n\n\n\n With a mission to make business travel a great experience and the world a better place, Mayank Kukreja got together with Anish Khadiya<\/a> to create ITILITE<\/a> in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During his many business trips, Mayank noticed the sad state of affairs on the corporate side of travel that was very disconnected. Planning a trip was an offline and time-consuming process every single time. To him, as a traveler, the system felt broken, and that was not just in India; but also across the US, Canada, Australia, and the Middle East. At the same time, as a consultant with McKinsey, he found many clients struggling to cut down on operational costs with travel as a constant element in this fight. After participating in many client projects that tried to combat business travel challenges<\/a>, Mayank got to understand how companies think of travel as a spending item and try to control it at a deeper level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n