• HOW WE STARTED

    "Love with Thrill" – Yes, the name 'Thrillophilia' has a meaning and that is what we all are in love with

    Three years back few friends passionate about adventure, on one of their weekend trips spotted a huge opportunity in the outdoors market especially because of the prevailing low quality of service. Soon, passion became a profession and the desire to do something of their own landed them with Thrillophilia -- India's biggest adventure sports portal today.

    The journey of “boot-strapped” Thrillophilia has been very adventurous! The founding team is a crazy couple who believe in the three words – ‘NEVER GIVE UP’. Chitra from ISB Hyderabad and Abhishek from IIT Varanasi inspite of having very lucrative careers chose to follow their passion and set out the venture they believed in.

  • WHAT WE DO - OUR BUSINESS MODEL?

    High quality managed experience for offbeat travel revolving around the concept of eco-tourism is Thrillophilia's unique expertise. Be it the corporate teams or individual travellers or groups, we have a thrilling unusual holiday for each one.

    1. Adventure India - Thrillophilia is the only one of its kind – the largest adventure sports portal in India with services in adventure spread across the Indian sub-continent from Indian Himalayas to Deserts in Rajasthan to Wildlife, South Indian trails and thrilling island holidays.

      The web portal showcases a plethora of information on adventure destinations in the country, thereby helping the individual travellers plan trips on their own. With this, our vision is to position India on the global map for adventure sports.

    2. Corporate Outbounds South India - Thrillophilia specializes in providing offbeat corporate outbounds. We revamp the concept of team outings from regular dinners to a whole day or a whole weekend out in unconventional locations, add an element of thrill to it with adventure activities and bring together the team with innovative games and creative themes.

      Our Senior consultants conduct outdoor training sessions on various modules such as leadership, team bonding, innovation etc. No hassles of you co-ordinating with transport or resort or camp sites or low service providers. We do it all for you so that you have a memorable managed experience.


    3. Adventure Set-Ups - We help set-up Adventure / Outdoor / Camping zones inside premises of resorts or other commercials. We have an outdoor team that comes with a make-shift set-up and provide adventure activities inside premises of schools, clubs and other commercial areas.


  • Our Expertize / Why book with us?

    Handpicked Vendors / Partners:
    With an extensive travel across India, the outdoor team at Thrillophilia has carefully handpicked the best vendors for some of the amazing, high on thrill adventure sports.  Once we identify vendors, we put them on performance testing and hence only the best in the industry come under one roof.

    Safety:
    With an in-house team of outdoor experts, certified adventure trainers, extremely high quality equipment, we give supreme importance to your safety.

    Exotic Hideouts:
    With an adventurous outdoor team, we gain access to hideouts - inaccessible and unknown locations - amidst nature, where we set-up high on thrill adventure activities. Our creative think tank designs innovative games and theme based outings for corporate.

    Focus on Customer Delight:
    More than 120 corporate companies and > 10000 delighted customers speak for our core value – “Customer Delight”.  Take a look at the customer feedbacks here.

    Managed Experience:
    We take care of all hassles from logistics, food, activities, adventure and coordination with the resort. All you have to do is leave your worries up to us and have some gala time. Currently one of the things which we do not cover in it is weather conditions but our engineers are still working on it.

    Offbeat Nature is core to the Team Thrillophilia –
    At Thrillophilia we use technology (internet and social media) to reach out to our target customers in innovative ways. Gone are the days of relying on traditional print media and fetching ROI from TV advertisements. We use smarter digital ways that showcase a higher ROI. 25,000+ Facebook fans, 8000 Twitter followers, 5000 newsletter subscribers and google rankings all constitute the brand “Thrillophilia”.





  • Who we are Team Thrillophilia

    Chitra Gurnani Daga – Co-founder & C.E.O
    MBA, Strategy & Leadership, ISB Hyderabad
    B.Tech, DAIICT
    (SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd. & Infosys) – Previously worked

    There are very few things that you choose to do because you believe in them from the bottom of your heart. That is exactly what I did when I chose to reject all fancy jobs post my MBA and chase my dream of making Thrillophilia, my entrepreneurial venture, a great success!
    What defines my passion – is it making money or adventure sports or????

    It is building sustaining organizations, those which add value to everyone in the system – employees, customers and shareholders. At Thrillophilia success is defined by its happy customers and its ever energized team ☺ No organization can sustain for long without building profitable business. Eyes on numbers, focus on quality and there is no looking back then ☺

    Abhishek Daga – Co-founder
    Bachelor of Technology, IIT Varanasi
    Cisco Systems (Previously worked)

    Day dreamer | Startup Junkie | GoGetter | Thinker | Explorer | Fitness Freak

    If you wanted to know about me I have pretty much communicated it in the first line. If you have lot of time please go ahead.

    'Value Creation' is what I believe in. I love to create things which solve problems or make existing things simple. Following the rat race I landed up doing my engineering from IIT Varanasi in Chemical Engineering.

    I am passionate about digital marketing have 5 years of experience in it. I worked in Cisco for four years on global innovation startup projects involving Social media, SEO, innovation, product development.

    After Cisco I headed digital marketing wing of India for a UK based company Eulogy! Handled projects for clients like Discovery Channel, Royal Mail, Direct ferries, Finlandia, Biocon, Arvind Mills, MFC, ElJimador, Poker Strategy etc.

    During my leisure time you will find me in gym or involved in an adrenaline pumping activities like paragliding, hiking, climbing or watching them over TV and getting inspired

    Reach me at thrillophilia@abhishekdaga.com ohh nooo abhishek@thrillophilia.com !! See that what an addiction can do to you!!

    Anchit Singh – Head, Sales & BD
    MBA (Marketing) Manipal University

    Anchit leads the sales and business development unit at Thrillophilia. With an experience of more than two years with Thrillophilia, Anchit handles corporate sales along with building and training his core team of MBA graduates and experienced business development folks.
    Besides this, he is an avid lover of the outdoors and does not miss a single chance of wearing the hat of an outbound leader on the corporate outbounds. He has lead more than 100 corporate outbounds at Thrillophilia.

    Arun Mahendran – Head, Outdoors
    Bachelor of Engineering, CMRIT

    Passionate for adventure, high on adrenaline content and athlete by behaviour, Arun has earned a Grade 'A' certificate from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi. He is an engineer by qualification and an adventurer by choice.
    He has travelled on most offbeat tracks in the Indian Himalayas and the Western Ghats.
    Not only the mountain, but the sea also fascinates the adventurers; Arun has completed his PADI OWD course too. Arun is a fitness freak and a spiritual believer too and hence a certified pranic psychotherapist from MCKS institute. To his credit are various High Altitude Fitness programs. With an experience of 10 years in the field of adventure, today Arun leads the outdoor and adventure team at Thrillophilia

    Outdoor Team: All adventure experts at Thrillophilia are certified from GETHNA. These are people who have spent their life with the rocks and have years of experience in the field of adventure. The rocking combo in this team is that of "The Raghu Brothers". They carry an eight and ten years of experience respectively in the industry.

    Hardy – Senior Training Consultant
    MBA, NMIMS, Mumbai
    Bachelor of Engineering, NIT, Rourkela

    He provides 'Outdoor Training', 'Executive Coaching', 'Consultative Sales Training' and 'Soft Skills Training' to global corporations in India. Hardy has more than 20 years of industry experience ranging across sales, marketing, training and HR. Despite having a successful career with "FedEx", Hardy chose training, his passion as his profession. He has also been a professor (visiting faculty) for 'Marketing', 'Brand Management' and 'Sales & Distribution' at RIMS, Bangalore

    Team of Corporate Trainers – With a team of professional corporate trainers – each of who have an experience of handling multiple corporate offsites before, Thrillophilia ensures to get the right facilitator for your group. These trainers / facilitators / consultants engage the group together with exciting and innovative team bonding games. They are all mostly MBAs from prime educational institutes and have adopted training as a profession out of passion.

    Narendra Singh Samar - Business Mentor & Angel Investor
    Chairman – Samar Chemicals
    JITO, Bangalore Chapter, Founder Chief Patron

    Narendra is a business strategist & an executioner. He has more than 30 years of business experience and adds significant value in major business decisions such as top level strategy for growth, expansion plans and process alignment in the organization. Mr. Samar is an excellent wealth manager also and hence he consults Thrillophilia on potential investment areas for future plans. Other than business, Mr. Samar is also a founding member of the Jain Industrial Trade Organization, Bangalore Chapter.

    Dr. Mahendra Mehta – Business Mentor and Angel Investor

    International Consultant & Advisor for emerging businesses with innovative ideas Dr. Mehta has worked on senior management level in a fortune 500 company in America. He has expertise in international business and product innovation. He has foresight of emerging trends in internet marketing, cloud computing, corporate culture and adventure travel and is always looking for ideas to convert to profitable businesses by formulating the right business strategy. He is a pioneer in developing laminate flooring business in Europe and Asia by correctly timing the market, understanding the consumer needs and developing product and business strategies to meet those needs.

  • Want to partner with us!

    Own a fantastic property which you feel is a great adventure hideout (across India) or own a resort in proximity of 300kms from Bangalore, contact us; we would love to work together.

    We are open for new creative ideas for marketing? Have a brilliant idea how you can help us grow. Let us know!!

  • Want to invest in us?

    We are open to investing; however we choose our investors and would want to associate with groups and funds, which can provide mentorship and not just money.

    If you are an asset intensive investor, we can consider working together on projects such as building of outdoor camping and adventure sites around Bangalore and then across India thereby expanding the scope of operations.

    In case you are someone who wants to invest in the knowledge intensive internet side of the business, we are looking at expanding the adventure India model, through significant investments in web interface, digital media marketing and new versions of the portal.

    Credentials: Take a look at the founding team and you will have every reason to believe that they would have thought through before leaving very lucrative careers and putting high stakes in getting on to the journey of entrepreneurship.

    Team:
    Team






    A certified and professionally qualified outdoor operations team, a talented sales team and a strong digital team together showcase positive cash flows month over month from over one year now. The team strength is eleven full-time and a bunch of free lancers for web development, content writing, and corporate training, out bound consultancy, adventure experts and logistic handling staff.

    Revenue growth has been 300% in second year of operations and 400% over the first five months in the third year of operations.

    Market Scope:

    Corporate Outbounds: The changing trend in the market is that corporate value spending a day out in a different way more than a regular team dinner or a team movie out. The number of corporate outbounds happening in metro cities in India is huge. Our operations in outbound are based in Bangalore and the plan is to expand them to other parts of the country also.

    Adventure Sports: The market for adventure sports in India is > 255 million dollars. We plan to position India on the world map for adventure.

    For any investing related query write to the founders @

    * chitra@thrillophilia.com

    * abhishek@thrillophilia.com





  • Want to join the team!

    If you think the word ‘offbeat’ rings a bell, if you have been wanting to do something different, if you are ready to walk extra miles to learn and grow, take a look at our career options. With us there are no limits other than the ones you have set for yourself.

    In Thrillophilia we are an extended family. We follow an open door policy and nurture our employees so that they can take up the posts of responsibilities in as little time as possible. Being a start-up we need a lot of talent so that we can grow together as an entity and not as promoters and employees.

    It’s a chance to quit the sedentary lifestyle which comes as a part and parcel of the drudgery called the 9-5 office work. Mail us your resume at careers@thrillophilia.com

    Our Current Openings!!!


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