Reccy Adventures, an journey sports activities startup, raised Rs 3 crore in a seed spherical from Jaydeep Barman and Kallol Banerjee, founders of cloud-kitchen startup Insurgent Meals. 

The Gurugram-based startup has not too long ago launched the beta model of a journey portal. The web site helps customers examine journey itineraries and charges from a number of native journey companies. As an illustration, in case you’re within the Jumolhari Trek in Bhutan, you’ll be able to examine costs and itineraries from at the least 5 native journey firms. Reccy Adventures’ web site additionally supplies content material on obligatory journey necessities, journey guidelines, and exercises one can do to arrange for mountaineering or river rafting journeys. 

The seed cash will probably be used so as to add an ecommerce arm for promoting  activewear, equipment and gears wanted in journey actions. The platform will even supply teaching, coaching, restoration and native sports activities for “sport-specific communities”. One other focus can be on launching their very own line of outside centered activewear vary.  

“We’ve seen some nice curiosity and progress since we set out, and this funding will assist us construct the sports-and-outdoor class in India. Our first product is a one-stop vacation spot for anyone who’s pondering of an out of doors or journey journey, from the invention of one thing new, to the supply of the expertise. We’ve introduced your entire stakeholder ecosystem onto one platform, with the intention to facilitate ease-of-experience,” Anirban Sen, Co-founder, Reccy Adventures mentioned in a launch. 

The startup was based in December 2019 by Anirban, Amit Chowdhury, Siddhartha Chatterjee, and Tapas Pal who’re obsessed with out of doors adventures and have backgrounds in Indian Air Pressure, non-public fairness investments, tech and pharma analysis.   

“We see enormous potential for the class with Indians taking a look at choices to interrupt out of their sedentary routines. As an ardent mountaineer and footballer, I can vouch for the truth that Reccy with its vary of services and products will change the way in which that sports activities and open air are considered in India,” mentioned Jaydeep Barman, Co-founder and CEO, Insurgent Meals, within the launch. 

The journey and tourism trade noticed a significant setback because of the COVID-19 induced lockdowns final yr in addition to amid the second wave. Reccy Adventures is betting on pent-up journey demand that’s anticipated to come up as soon as the restrictions are eased. 

The startup can be competing with different journey suppliers together with Delhi-based Tripoto, DIY journey reserving startup Pickyourtrails, and lots of others at the moment working within the area.