Hellocurry acquires Hyderabad based Fire42
8 years ago Shalini B
After acquiring Hyderabad-based food delivery startup Paratha Post in April 2015, Hello Curry makes its second acquisition in less than three month. Hello Curry acquires Tech startup Fire42 in a part tech and part stock deal to transform Hello Curry into a food tech firm.
Quoting the founder Raju Bhupati, “The idea is to transform Hello Curry into a food tech firm. Acquiring a tech company like Fire42 and then building unique features from the cumulative experience we have on top of this platform will provide us a definite edge.”
Fire42 is an end -to- end cloud based restaurant management solution that takes care of POS, inventory management, marketing, CRM, loyalty and more using a single platform. Fire42 has been founded by Santosh Achari who will now join the Hello Curry team as their CTO. Santosh Achari is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology( Banaras Hindu University ).
This acquisition will help Hello curry add analytics and manage POS and operational services as they look to aggressively expand their presence throughout India. It is said that they are also in talks with a Mumbai & Delhi based logistics company.
