Business Description:Bangalore Mountaineering Club (also popular as BMC) founded in the year 2004 with the sole intention of making the outdoor adventure experience affordable to one and all. Just four years into existence, BMC today, has seen tremendous growth becoming the stress-buster for more than 5000 registered nature & adventure enthusiasts making it the most active adventure club in Karnataka and one of the most active clubs in India, conducting close to 4 adventure events in a month, all on weekends.
Though fun and adventure were the founding pillars of the club, BMC has grown holistically over the years. Apart from bringing affordable adventure to the masses, BMC involves itself in nature conservation projects. Our vision is to become India's biggest Adventure school where children can be molded to take up Adventure as fulltime professional or just learn to have safe recreational adventure.
Industry:Adventure Tourism and Training
Founded in:2004
Source of idea:Built hobby into a business
Significant Competitors:Youth Hostel, Karnataka Mountaineering Association, Paragliding India, Nirvana Adventure, Temple Pilots Xtracee, Baraccuda Diving Center, HMI, NIM, NOLS
Company Details :
Company Name:Bangalore Mountaineering Club
HeadQuarters:Bangalore
Stage of the company:Scaling up
No of Employees (2006):0-5
No of Employees (2007):6-15
Office Locations(2006):0-1
Office Locations(2007):0-1
No of companies promoted:No
Profits (2006):1 to 5 lacs
Profits (2007):1 to 5 lacs
>Partnerships:Princes Horse Riding Academy: We use their Horse riding arena as well as Horses for our trainings
United India Paragliding Association: Having more than 15 years of experience in flying. We are one of the strongest player in Bangalore with this strong support
Dive Goa: Associated with PADI (International Scuba diving Certification authority), Provide logistic and training support to BMC
Srinidhi Tours & Travels: Our Transport source.
Yahoo.com: Backupend support for all adventure activities for Yahoo.com employees in Bangalore
In process:
GETHNNA, India Mountaineering Foundation, Incredible India (Tourism Ministry of India)
Initial Funding:Personal savings
Addl Funding:Personal credit cards
Institutitional Capital:No
Revneue Model:From Events and Training courses like Trekking, Rock climbing, Paragliding, Parasailing, Scuba diving, Horse riding, White Water Rafting, Mountaineering for individuals as well as corporate customers.
Awards & honors:We are regularly covered in Print and Electronic media for Nature conservation, variety of activities we conduct and the rapid growth - its the biggest honor we earn.
Promoters Details :
Promoters Name(s):Neeraj Malve
Age:32
HomeTown:Nasik
Education:Bachelors Pune University
No of companies promoted:No
Family Background:First gen entrepreneur
Job:System Administrator at In-Source Connections Pvt Ltd
Ex-Job Description:IT Consultant
Favorite Book/Movie:The bridge on the river kwai
