roomlion.com - verified short-term rentals reservations
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Online Booking of Temporary Housing
Team @ RoomLion
Ashish AgrawalFounder ~ Product Management & Sales/Ops at RoomLionExperience
5 years in Senior Managerial roles at Google, Mountain ViewBioinformatics research at Los Alamos National Lab
AcademicsMBA from Carnegie Mellon; MS in Computer Science from Univ of New Mexico; BE in Mech Engg from Univ of Pune
Akhil GuptaHead, Sales & OperationsExperience
Jombay, Venky’sAcademics
MBA from Univ of Pune
Tushar DongareLead Engineer - one man engineering armyExperience
Pragmatic Techsoft, PuneAcademics
BE in Comp Engg, Amravati Univ
Business Development3 members (previously with Zomato, DocSuggest)
Online Sales & Customer Support3 members
What is RoomLion?Portal for Discovery & Booking of Short Term Rentals & Serviced Residences
Virtual Tour of Each Apartment
We visit & collect data
Data that Matters (eg. Power Backup)
Ideal for day, week or several months
In 9 Cities with ~7,500 rooms
NO Hotels, Hostels, Lodges, PGs
NO peer-to-peer or couch-on-rent listing
Corporate & Expat Friendly Housing
Sample Listing
Why Serviced Apartments?Avoid “hotel fatigue”. Avoid hassles with furnishing & setting up utilities at a rental!
Cook food in your own kitchen
Greater privacy in a casual ambience
More spacious than a hotel room
Ability to customizePerfect when traveling with family
Your “second home”
Magical House-keeping
SPACIOUSLess costly than equivalent hotel
Elephant in the Room!
We are not an AirBnB clone! Majority Serviced Apartments
NEVER List on AirBnB
No Business Travellers Dilutes brand imageAirBnB for budget tourists
Not ideal for Multi-unit propertiesNot even in US or EUFew professionally
managed properties
20% overlap across AirBnB & RoomLion
Why no serviced apartments on AirBnB?
What’s in it for Guests & Hosts?Guests
FurnishedApartments Only
Data Minimizes Surprises
Online Booking with Credit Card
Contact Hosts Directly
Zero Cost for Listing Property
NO need to block room inventory
Not Just Leads but Booking Requests
Focus on Serviced Apartments
Hosts
About RoomLion
TimelineNov 2012 Initiated Product DevelopmentApr 2013 Launched as AnekHomes.comSep 2013 Renamed to RoomLion.comNov 2013 >5,600 rooms across 9 cities
Current Headcount - 9
HeadofficeScrappy Ventures Pvt LtdUnit #5 Gulmohar CourtLane B Koregaon Park Pune 411001
Phone Number020-2614-0051
Ashish Agrawal RoomLion Founder
Former Googler & Carnegie Mellon alumnus
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