Netz Capital is a Venture Capital Fund & advisory based in Mumbai led by a group of successful entrepreneurs investing in start ups and early stage companies.

http://www.netzvacation.com

is a online Vacation rental marketplace serving $ 10 billion online vacation rental stay Industry in India

• Over 8 million international tourists come to India

• Number to touch 10 million by 2010

• 95% of the travelers look for cost effective stay options at vacation destinations

• International tourists are used to booking their stay online. They have to depend on local travel agents to find a place to stay.

International Tourists stats

• Over 350 million domestic tourists (Source : Tourism Dept.)

• 99% of the travelers look for cost effective stay options at vacation destinations

• Major tourists fight for reserving State Tourism owned properties. E.g. MTDC, GTDC, HTDC, KTDC, TTDC

• Rest are unsure about their booking and find anything that is available at random

Domestic Tourists stats

• Market size of over $10 billion USD growing at 15%

• There is no centralized interface or inventory maintenance of vacation rental properties

• State tourism corporations do not have any online booking system/interface/inventory for people to get assured booking.

• Even after mobile internet, data cards and cost effective computer infrastructure has reached most parts of India, booking facility given to tourists is very conventional and not promising.

The need and market size

• Inspired from Homeaway.com

• Homeaway.com offers vacation rental properties in USA by giving them centralized booking infrastructure and quality maintenance process.

• The system http://www.netzvacation.com has been developed after 1 year ground research and programming.

• Netzvacation.com provides a platform for property agents/home owners/state tourism organizations/travel agents/booking partners to effectively manage India $5 billion market for online vacation booking.

About Netzvacations

Setup for successful implementation

State Tourism

Properties

Bed and Breakfast Properties

Budget Hotels

Home Owners

Property Agents

Domestic Tourists

Foreign Tourists Travel

Agents

Quality Maintenance

Agency

• Homeaway.com charges monthly/yearly fees from home owners, but the same model might not work in India

• Hence, 15-20% commission per booking

• Quality Maintenance agency for every property can be paid for quarterly review/training of the property.

• $400/$500 kiosks with internet data card– For State Tourism agency, we can invest by our own to provide them– For rest of the players, we can provide with easy finance option

Business Model

Launch Strategy

• Tie up with all State tourism agencies

• Approx resorts and costs required

MTDC GTDC KTDC Others Total

Approx Resorts 14 8 15 105 142

Approx Rooms/resort 8 8 8 8

Total rooms per resort 112 64 120 840 1136

Approx Kiosks Required 14 8 15 105 142

Cost per Kiosk $500 $500 $500 $500

Cost Per Resort $7,000 $4,000 $7,500 $52,500 $71,000

First Year Target & Financial Projections

Rooms Availability 1136

Approx Rent per day $35

Total Rent Per Day $39,760

Total Rent Per Year $14,512,400

Assumption

Yearly Occupancy 80% $11,609,920

Target 10% of Booking $1,160,992

• Launch Strategy is to only target state tourism companies and target 10% of their revenue

• The site will however be open to vacation rental properties as well

FY01 FY02 FY03

Properties Listed 1500 18,000 145,000

Turnover $1,200,900 $15,400,000 $135,000,000

Revenue $240,000 $3,500,000 $31,000,000

Worldwide Launch

• Atul Khekade is the partner of Netz capital, a venture capital fund and advisory focused on nurturing start-ups and emerging companies to take them to billion dollar league. Atul has successfully led several start-up companies and generated revenues in excess of $1.5 million. Netz capital portfolio consists of 8 companies with combined net worth of over $50 million and annual revenues in excess of $5 million.

Atul has authored a book on Graphical User Interfaces and was a visiting professor on computer programming. Previously, Atul was a consultant with i-flex Solutions(now Oracle) and played key role in development of Citigroup's global transaction system designed to handle trillions of dollars of transaction every month. Atul was also a consultant for UK based Smartstream technologies for Transaction Processing System used by banks such as Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Atul co-founded a executive education company in 2005 for which he was nominated in Businessweek as one of the Top Entrepreneurs in Asia under 25. Atul is currently the chairman of Airnetz Charter Inc, a global private jet charter marketplace ,GDS and end to end business flight service. Airnetz serves over 25,000 airfields globally with over 1200 aircrafts to it's global network.

Atul is a Computer Engineer from Mumbai University and has travelled across the world during his professional roles. Atul has been featured on various publications such as India Today, Businessweek, Rediff.com, UTV and Fortune Innovation Forum. Atul likes working in the background building Business Model, strategy, direction, public relations and sales.

Team Bios

• Ritesh Kakkad is the partner of Netz Capital and has prior experience of growing the companies from scratch to multi million dollar revenues. Ritesh is the CEO of Indsoft Systems Pvt. Ltd., a premier web hosting and internet infrastructure solutions provider to Fortune 500 companies. Ritesh was featured as one of bring young entrepreneurs in Asia by BBC.

• Nikhil Khekade has over 4 years of experience in building technologies for practical applications. He is responsible for Airnetz Global distribution system and online marketplace and a unique commercial flight pool system that lets corporate travelers fly on demand at business class prices. Nikhil is a visiting faculty for software technologies at Sardar Patel College of Engineering. Nikhil was previously working with Cognizant technologies Ltd for their CRM, Rsearch project and SAO for IBM.Nikhil has expertise in web services, semantic web and system automation. He is a graduate in Information technology from Mumbai University.

Fund requirement & Utilization

• $3 million in Seed Funding – to reach FY01 targets– Utilized for hiring Key People

• CTO, CEO

– State Tourism Board properties Implementation– Office– Advertising/Marketing

• $5 million in Series A – to reach FY03 Targets– Marketing, Advertising– Expansion

Valuation• Post Money Investor equity with $3 million Investment – 40%

• Post Money Valuation $7.5 million

Exit• IPO e.g Mahindra Holidays

• Trade Sale to Expedia, Travelocity, Sabre etc.

• Trade sale to Private Equity

• FY03 Valuation $300 million

• Expected ROI in 3 years, 2000%

Interested? • info@netzcapital.com / atul.khekade@gmail.com

• Phone : +91 98331 77620

• Linkedin : Atul Khekade