Meet Ruchi Garg helping users to find the best available options of Event Venues by Venuelook.

Ruchi Garg, CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Venuelook (an online marketplace) and an entrepreneur is blessed with the mindset and attitude of an entrepreneur. Her belief that teamwork is the key to success is what makes her stand out from the crowd, and following this belief, she acts as a team player with determination. Ruchi is also a technology expert who is redefining technology and working in place of an online marketplace while contributing her best in the event industry.

Ruchi Garg holds a bachelor's degree in computer science. She has over 15 years of professional experience in building products and teams. Ruchi manages a team of 50 people at Venuelook. Even though she is in the event management industry, she maintains touch with technology and leverages it to solve business problems.

Venuelook was founded in 2014 by Ruchi Garg. Venuelook makes venue booking easy and seamless across 16 cities in India. It helps organizations to manage and promote events. VenueLook is India's leading online event venue discovery and booking platform. It helps in finding and booking the perfect venue for events like weddings, birthday parties, engagements, receptions, anniversaries, baby showers, cocktail dinners, etc.

Ruchi through its online platform 'VenueLook' is helping users find the best available options of venues for their events. Venuelook is a product of TENXT Solutions Private Limited, a product development, solutions, and services company. Today, Venuelook is a leading online marketplace and at the cutting edge of the event booking segment with its world-class, efficient, and effective services to resonate with the individual needs of the customer.

Ruchi Garg started her career with ST Microelectronics in early 1999 after completing her bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering from C.R.S.C.E Murthal M.D.U in the year 1998. Where her responsibility was to lead and build software products as a Product Manager.

She worked there for almost seven years, and during this tenure, she learned how to build a team, and acclimatize to a development environment. Plus, she learned about CMM Level-5 processes, among many other things.

Events are usually associated with celebrating happy moments. And 'making happy moments happy' is what she has always been the best at. She had a keen interest in planning and organizing events since her school days. From teacher's day, sports day, and an annual day at school [as a head girl] to family weddings, corporate parties, and then birthday parties of my two kids, organizing all the events and enjoying each and every aspect is key to their successful execution took while watching.

As a mother, Ruchi Garg loves to be particular about venues and explore different places for her kid's birthday party. While doing so, they noticed that there were many hurdles to be faced in choosing a venue, such as visiting the venue to decide whether it is suitable or not, booking cost, commitment to quality, etc.

Since venue search and booking is the first step in planning every event. From a consumer point of view, the venue had problems to be decided, so she was sure she would be able to solve this problem and she is excited to do so. She decided to do something in this field and to reduce the complexity related to all types of events, she started her venture in 2014 with the idea of VenueLook, and today, VenueLook is a leading provider of Event Venue Search and Booking in India known as a top-tier online platform for.

By far the most challenging part of their journey has been bridging the gap that exists between event managers and owners in understanding the power of technology and consumer engagement beyond the traditional methods they've been using for years. The main aim of Ruchi Garg has always been to build a bridge between banquet owners and people looking for places to organize social and business events. 

They currently have 20,000+ venue profiles on Venuelook and serve approximately 10,000+ events per month. Ruchi Garg helps her team identify and remove roadblocks for all tasks systematically through information, technology, and the right communication at the right time. They strive for rapid learning and sustainability of growth and development.

Venue's area aggregation and AI-powered algorithms help identify and match customer requirements with the best venue options available, thus simplifying the venue search and booking process for weddings and social and corporate events. VenueLook, an online-to-offline platform, and marketplace for venue aggregation, discovery, and booking, has raised an undisclosed amount in its Pre-Series A round. 

Funding from marquee angel investors and entrepreneurs such as Srikant Shastri (Co-Founder, Crayon Data), Shailesh Rao (Senior Advisor – TPG; McKinsey & Company; Board Member – JLL), VP Rajesh (Managing Partner – Bunyan Capital Advisors LLP) and Vishal Sampath (Founder of Convener).

Family plays an important role in the life of every person. Ruchi Garg's family believed in her, and her dreams supported her in her entrepreneurial journey. Being a woman and an entrepreneur, she did not face any problems in balancing her personal and professional life. Her husband is from the IT sector and she loves Venuelook as much as she does.

“One should keep learning new ways to overcome obstacles while moving forward in the path of progress.”