Sumanth Donthi built a travel startup that has racked up more than 300,000 downloads within months of launch, tackling a frustration familiar to millions: trip planning has become a digital nightmare of endless tabs and conflicting apps. His answer, Roamiyo, promises to collapse that chaos into a single, editable companion.
The platform emerged from a paradox Donthi encountered during his own journeys. Travel agents once controlled scarce information. Today’s traveler drowns in too much of it. As a student shuttling across Europe while earning his master’s in management at University College London, he kept asking why exploring a city demanded so much logistical heavy lifting.
That question hardened into a business after he returned to Bengaluru and tried planning a trip for his parents. The process swallowed two weeks and roughly a hundred browser tabs. His parents needed guidance, not a rigid schedule. Nothing on the market served that middle ground.
So Donthi surveyed between 500 and 1,000 potential users and chose Bengaluru as his launchpad. The city offered startup infrastructure, a young technical workforce, and lower development costs than London. His research convinced him the Indian market wanted something different.
Roamiyo works as a digital travel companion rather than a traditional agent. Users enter destinations, dates, and preferences. The app generates a draft itinerary that remains fully editable. Travelers can move activities, swap experiences, add or remove cities, and adjust trip duration on the fly.
Crucially, the system tracks dislikes as carefully as preferences. Post-booking, it continues working: weather updates, language basics, time zone and currency tools, visa guidance, maps, directions, and space for personal notes about restaurants and attractions.
Donthi’s education spans Indiana University Bloomington, where he studied business and finance, and UCL. Before Roamiyo, he worked on product strategy and scalable systems at Emmvee Group. His LinkedIn lists him as founder and director at ETPL.
The company now employs 30 people internally alongside external agencies. Reported engagement figures show approximately 9,400 daily active users, 66,000 weekly actives, and 250,000 monthly actives. The founder credits his years abroad with teaching him independence, the confidence to pursue what might otherwise have stayed an idea.
