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Eatigo is a restaurant reservation service that offers time based discounts over standard menu pricing. Founded in 2013 by entrepreneurs of diverse nationalities (French, Singaporean, Indian and Thai). As of May 2017, the company has seated over 4 million people at 1,000 restaurants across the Southeast Asian region. who is the CEO for Thailand. Founded in 2013 and launching a website initially in Thailand in June 2014 An app version for Android and iOS was lunched soon after in July 2014. After capturing over 95% market share in the online table reservation market in Thailand, operations were launched in Singapore in February 2015. via TripAdvisor's global restaurant reservation brand, TheFork, operations were launched in Malaysia in March 2017 and Hong Kong in May 2017. In Hong Kong, Eatigo broke even after just six months of operation. After acquiring competitor Ressy and operations were also launched in the Philippines in July 2017. The Philippine business turned a profit in four months. in "pre-series C" investment once again from Tripadvisor, bringing the total funding raised to over US$25M to date. In January 2019, Eatigo launched in its 7th country, Indonesia. Information For users Users of the site are provided a per-centage discount on their food bills. Eatigo also has a mobile application available in and Google Play, For restaurants Founder and CEO Michael Cluzel has described Eatigo as the 'anti-Groupon', as Groupon delivers the majority of customers at peak hours, while Eatigo aims to deliver 90% at off-peak hours. Markets Eatigo is currently available in the following countries and cities: *Thailand **Bangkok **Pattaya **Chaing Mai *Singapore *Hong Kong *Malaysia **Kuala Lumpur *Philippines **Manila **Cebu **Davao *India **Mumbai **Pune **Bangalore *Indonesia **Jakarta Funding To date, Eatigo has undergone three rounds of funding, first in December 2015 with Series A investor PlanB, a publicly listed media company in Thailand. They received backing from American travel site TripAdvisor for their Series B funding, bringing their total funding to date to US$15.5 million and again received a 2nd round of funding from TripAdvisor in July 2018.<ref name=":2" />
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