Freecultr’s CPO quits to join OYO Rooms

The chief product officer of fashion e-commerce portal Freecultr quit within six months of joining. Talvinder Singh will now be joining budget hotels aggregator OYO Rooms as product head. He had joined in 2015.

Freecultr was co-founded by Sandeep Singh, Sujal Shah and Rajesh Narkar in December 2011. They had got backing from Harish Bahl’s Smile Group which runs many e-commerce sites. Sandeep became the CEO of the company after Shah quit in 2013. Freecultr last received funding to the tune of USD 4 million from Sequoia Capital in 2011. Earlier Sandeep had talked about the company touching Rs 100 crore GMV run rate soon and growing its designer base to cross three lakh by 2016.

Talvinder Singh had earlier co-founded Tushky, a 500 start-ups backed online marketplace for discovering and monetising leisure activities but it shut shop after it failed to scale up at a time when the funding environment began to dry up.

OYO Rooms was started in May 2013 with a single room by Ritesh Agarwal. Today, it is spread across 175 cities with over 5000 rooms. Recently, it hired two co-founders of health tech startup Qlik Pass – Rahul Gupta and Rishi Swami.