Rikant Pittie is the Co-Founder of EaseMyTrip. He is an expert of e-commerce where technology plays an important part of his pursuits additional to his business acumen. Rikant’s deep enthralled knowledge in the field came solely from hisrich experience of building a company from itsscratch.

Started at the age of 16, Rikant commenced the technical development for EaseMyTrip, realising the potential of the travel portals back then for the years to come and translated it into the company that today is the second-largest online travel platform; the man behind EaseMyTrip in true sense. His sheer knowledge coupled with analytical skills and a solid problem-solving attitude makes him a visionary and the leader of the future. Rikant knows how to accelerate mere domains into a fruitful extension of the business. His entrepreneurial grit and spirit to keep learning has led to the professional strides in building EaseMyTrip into a successful brand and a unicorn of market capitalisation of USD 1.3 billion.

Amongst his many achievements and accolades, Rikant has been featured under the coveted list of 40 under 40 by Fortune India. His work has also been recognised by prestigious institutions and is awarded the esteemed ‘Entrepreneur of the year in service business (Travel)’ by Entrepreneur India, ‘Best Travel Planner of the Year’ and ‘Bootstrapped Entrepreneur of the year’ by Hurun India. He has also been felicitated by Harish Salve ji, an Indian Senior Advocate, Supreme High Court. Rikant has recently been recognized and acclaimed as one of India's Top 200 Self-made Entrepreneurs of the Millennium 2023, a prestigious accolade conferred by IDFC FIRST Private in collaboration with Hurun India. This distinguished recognition reflects Rikant's outstanding achievements as an entrepreneur. Notably, Mr. Rikant Pittie is also the Vice Chairman of the CII Delhi State Council for 2024-2025.

About EaseMyTrip.com

In 2021, EaseMyTrip.com, became one the very few consumer-tech startups in the world, that bootstrapped itself all the way till IPO. EaseMyTrip also became a UNICORN with market- capitalization of USD 1.3 billion. EaseMyTrip is one of the largest & fastest growing travel portal in India. In the present scenario, when 99% of the internet startups raise multiple rounds of funds to grow, EaseMyTrip grew to become 2nd largest, without any external capital infusion and has remained profitable every year since last 16 years (while all other competitors have been in losses) EaseMyTrip was profitable even during the pandemic times, highlighting the resilience of EaseMyTrip's highly efficient cost structure & business model.