We’re excited to announce that WanderOn has raised ₹54 Cr in our Series A round, led by DSG Consumer Partners and CAAF. This is one of the largest institutional fundraises in India’s experiential travel space.
For us, it reinforces a simple idea we’ve always built toward: that the most meaningful journeys are shaped by people and experiences, not just places.
With this funding, we’re ready to accelerate WanderOn’s global footprint, develop new experience-led travel formats, and deepen our technology and community ecosystem, all with the goal of making trip planning easier, more social, and thoughtfully curated.
Watch here as the next chapter unfolds, the WanderOn way:
That shared vision is also what brought the right partners into this journey. In DSG Consumer Partners and Client Associates Alternate Fund (CAAF), we found investors who believe in building consumer-first businesses with long-term impact.
Reflecting on WanderOn’s journey, the investors from DSG Consumer Brand quoted, “The WanderOn team has demonstrated a strong understanding of shifting consumer behavior, where experiences are becoming more important than possessions. Their community-led approach and consistent execution have helped them scale organically over the years. We are excited to support their next phase of growth as they expand globally and continue to strengthen their product and technology.”
Commenting on the investment, Client Associates Alternate Fund (CAAF) added, “WanderOn has built a differentiated experiential travel platform by understanding what the new age traveler values: authenticity, social connection, and hassle-free execution. The company’s strong growth and engaged community position it well to play a defining role in how experiential travel evolves in India.”
What Makes This Milestone Special?
It’s the journey that led up to it.
A group of engineers from NIT Kurukshetra who loved to travel started the company with one simple goal: to change how traditional group tours feel. They wanted to create trips where people could travel together comfortably, connect with each other naturally, and experience more than just the surface of the places they visited.
What started with small weekend trips gradually grew into curating journeys across 40+ domestic and international destinations. Today, we offer everything from European routes and Northern Lights experiences to long-haul trips based on adventure and events round the globe.
“There’s a common assumption that the present generation only wants to spend on flashy, material things, but what we’ve seen is quite the opposite,” says Govind Gaur, CEO of WanderOn. “Young travelers are making conscious choices to spend on real, authentic experiences. For many, travel has become part of their lifestyle, not just a break from routine.”
According to him, this thought shaped our foundation by creating a space where like-minded people could connect over shared adventures, at a time when travelers are most open and truly themselves.
More than 1 lakh travellers have traveled with us so far, with a significant number choosing to travel again. This repeat trust has been a key driver of our popularity and is frequently echoed in WanderOn reviews, where travellers speak about the sense of community, planning, and the personal connections formed on trips.
A Changing Relationship With Travel
What began as an instinct is today visible across how people choose to travel.
What defines travel now is
- The experiences that stay with you,
- the emotions, and
- the connections formed along the way.
The change could mean slowing down for wine-making experiences in Georgia, sunrise hikes in Bali, planning Europe trips around festive winter markets, or choosing destinations based on what’s happening there at a particular time. Closer to home, scenic road trips, stargazing, biking routes, and evenings around campfires are now attracting travelers in the mountains of Ladakh and Spiti Valley.
This shift shows that travelers still love taking pictures that look good on Instagram, but they also want stories, feelings, and connections that last after the trip. That's why experience-led, community-driven WanderOn trips fit in so well with how modern travelers like to see the world.
If you’ve travelled with WanderOn before, this doesn’t change what you loved; in fact, it upgrades it. Here’s what you can expect more of as we grow:
- More adventure, wellness, and sports-led experiences
- Smarter planning tools that make discovering, coordinating, and travelling easier
- Stronger communities that continue beyond the trip itself
If you’re discovering WanderOn for the first time, we invite you. To travel in a way that feels more personal, less rushed, and more connected. To go on trips where strangers don't stay strangers for long and where the journey is just as important as the destination.
And if you’ve been following our journey from the sidelines, this moment simply marks a bigger commitment to what we’ve always stood for. Building travel that feels human. Creating spaces where people connect organically. And designing journeys that stay with you long after the trip ends.
