BookMyShow

company

About

BookMyShow is an Indian online ticketing service for cinemas, theaters, and sports.

Details

Last Funding Type
Series C
Last Funding Money Raised
$81.50M
Industries
Digital Entertainment,E-Commerce,Event Management,Events,Internet,Media and Entertainment,Online Auctions,Social Media,Sports
Founded date
Jan 1, 1999
Number Of Employee
501 - 1000
Operating Status
Active
Legal Name
Bigtree Entertainment Pvt. Ltd

BookMyShow is an Indian online ticketing service for cinemas, theaters, and sports. Within a decade of its inception, BookMyShow poses a 40% CAGR in revenues and over 90% market share in the online entertainment ticketing space.

With offices in India, New Zealand, and Malaysia, BookMyShow aims to present their clients with endless options to purchase tickets for the latest movies, music concerts, plays, stand up comic acts, and major sporting events to name a few. Tickets can be booked through various platforms like internet, mobile application, WAP and the in - house call center.

With ticketing for over 3000 screens across 250 cities, BookMyShow has partnerships with all major Indian production houses and studios with real time ticketing for major cinema chains like Inox, Big Cinemas, Cinemax, Fun Cinemas etc. 85% of all cinema tickets sold online are booked on bookyshow, resulting in sales peaking up to 7 million tickets per month.

BookMyShow has ticketed for over 1,500 plays online and is the exclusive and permanent ticketing partners for theatre venues like Prithvi Theater, Mumbai, NCPA Mumbai, Indian Habitat Centre Delhi and Rangshankara Bangalore. With more than 20 million page views per month, BookMyShow has ticketed for more than 300 live large format events and sport events such as ICL, city Marathons, etc.

BookMyShow.com was the official ticketing partner for Mumbai Indians, Kings XI Punjab, and official online ticketing partner for Delhi Daredevils in season 2010. BookMyShow introduced a number of innovative features to make cricket viewing a pleasurable and more comfortable experience for their customers this season with on ground tie ups with various retail chains like Reliance Fresh, Reebok and Café Coffee Day for sale of tickets.

BookMyShow was also the official ticketing agency for the prestigious Yonex - Sunrise Badminton Asia Tournament, hosted in the capital for the first time in April 2010 and ticketing partner for the India v/s Australia 2nd test match in Bangalore.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
6
$224.50M
BookMyShow has raised a total of $224.50M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jan 1, 2019 from a Series Unknown round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Jan 1, 2019 Series Unknown 1 Capital18 Detail
Jul 20, 2018 Series D $100M 1 TPG Growth Detail
Jul 5, 2016 Series C $81.50M 4 Stripes Detail
Jun 18, 2014 Series B $25M 3 Elevation Capital Detail
Aug 23, 2012 Series A $18M 1 Accel Detail

Investments

Number of Investments
Number of Lead Investments
5
2
BookMyShow has made 5 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jul 7, 2022, when Popclub raised ₹100M.
Date Company Name
Round Money Raised Industry Lead Investor
Jul 7, 2022 Popclub
Corporate Round ₹100M Consumer Yes
Sep 13, 2021 Omneky
Seed $3M Advertising
Apr 16, 2019 AtomX
Corporate Round Information Technology Yes
Series A $6.50M Artificial Intelligence
Feb 14, 2017 Townscript
Private Equity(PE) Event Management

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
6
7
BookMyShow is funded by 7 investors. Capital18 and TPG Growth are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
Capital18 Yes Series Unknown
TPG Growth Yes Series D
Stripes Yes Series C
Elevation Capital Yes Series B
Accel Series C
Network18 Series C
SAIF Partners Series C

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles
13
BookMyShow has 13 current employee profiles, including Executive Ashish Hemrajani
Executive
Board member
Executive
Board member
Board member

Exits

BookMyShow has had 1 exits. BookMyShow most notable exits include Townscript

Date Company Name Exit Type Industry
Feb 14, 2017 Townscript M&A Event Management Detail

Acquisition

BookMyShow has acquired 7 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Eventifier on Feb 11, 2015. They acquired Eventifier for $2M.

Date Company Name
Industry Acquisition Type Price
Feb 11, 2015 Eventifier
Content acquisition $ 2M Detail
Mar 10, 2016 Fantain
Analytics acquisition Detail
Jan 24, 2017 MastiTickets
Ticketing acquisition Detail
Feb 14, 2017 Townscript
Event Management acquisition Detail
Jul 4, 2017 burrp!
Leisure acquisition $ 10.25K Detail