Make My Pilgrimage, India’s first religious and darshan startup, is planning to secures around ₹5 crore, along with other small and mid-sized startups which counts among the spirituality market in India. These startups see an opportunity in using technology to connect devotees to their places of worship.
“Singer Anup Jalota is our chief mentor and partner. MMP (Make My Pilgrimage) is at the early expansion stage. To reach out to the larger potential of the market, the startup is in negotiations with prospective investors for a capital infusion of around Rs 5 crore,” Indraneel Dasgupta, founder of Make My Pilgrimage said.
Make My Pilgrimage, a Kolkata- based pilgrimage startup was founded by Dasgupta along with Ankan Ganguli. The website aims to connect pilgrims across the country and abroad to pilgrimage destinations of their choice.
The startup offers end-to-end tours for pilgrims beginning from darshans to special pujas and connect Vaishno Devi and Amarnath in the north to Kamakhya and Jagannath in the east to Kashi Vishwanath and Mahakaleshwar in central India, to Shirdi and Ajmer in the west and to Madurai and Tirupati in the south, to Asthi-Visarjan at Haridwar to Pind-Daan at Gaya to Kal Sarpo Pujan at Trimbakeshwar, at any temple. The startup also assist pilgrims in their travel arrangements, sightseeing, hotel booking, homestay and ashram bookings as well as book special tours such as Amarnath, Char Dham and Kailash Mansarovar etc.
“MMP assures a pilgrims ‘Me Time with God’. From package tours and darshans to customised trips, the startup aims to make the pilgrims time with God absolutely hassle free and personal,” Dasgupta added.
The startup has tied up with leading yoga schools and institutions, astrologers’, ayurvedic doctors, hotels, travel agents, organic product manufacturers and also a leading medical tourism company aggregator of hospitals to provide medical help to all its pilgrims, if the need so arises.
Moreover, Make My Pilgrimage will be competing with the likes of online puja-booking startup Harivara.