About Sembark

Sembark is where courage meets care - and growth feels human.

Mission

Why Sembark?

In the mid-2010s, our founders weren't building software, they were running a travel business creating memorable travel experiences.But the more the business grew, the more tangled everything became. Sales, operations, suppliers, and payments, nothing moved smoothly. Naturally, they looked for software to fix it. Plenty of tools existed, but none truly worked. Most were built on assumptions & theory, not on what a travel business actually deals with every day. That's when the realization hit: no one was building for real travel workflows. So instead of adjusting they used their IIT engineering background & first-hand experience of running a travel company, they designed Sembark: A system designed around real use cases, real pressure, & real operational chaos.

Our Values

Our Guiding Principles

Dare with Humility

Be brave enough to try, humble enough to learn.

Own It, Every Bit of It

If it's a problem, it's our problem.

Empathy in Action

Understand deeply, help wholeheartedly.

Legacy over Vanity

Build things that matter, not things that flash.

Grow Together, Always

Your growth fuels ours.

Resourceful. Relentless. Real.

We make it happen, with what we have.

Our Journey

Sembark wasn't built in one day

2015

The Beginning

3 Friend a hostel room & an idea. That is how a travel website was built in a hostel room at IIT Kanpur. This idea was ambitious, but the market didn’t respond.

2016

Going Deeper

Anand left IIT Kanpur to learn travel operations firsthand & Rajat Joined in to learn everything from ground level.

2017-2018

The learners

For two years, they lived the travel business. Learning, struggling, & understanding every small detail that truly matters.

2019

Commitment to Vision

This is where solid foundation for a travel management system built on real workflows started. Sudhir left his stable corporate career to join full-time and bring the research to life.

2020- 2021

The Turning Point

Just as things took shape, COVID struck, but the founders used this time as an opportunity to refine, strengthen, and launch Sembark as a registered company in 2020.

2022

The Turning Point

Starting of the era team moved operations from Bengaluru to Jaipur, hired its first employees, presented Sembark exhibited at SATTE,& stepped into travel-tech spotlight.

2023

Proof of Trust

Sembark crossed its first major milestone of 100 customers. Real travel businesses were now validating what the founders believed all along.

2024

Strengthening Leadership

The company crossed another milestone of 500+ customers. Shiva joined as CEO, strengthening leadership & preparing Sembark for its next growth phase.

2025

Global Growth

Sembark crossed 1,000+ customers expanded across 20+ countries, grew to 50+ employees, evolving from a startup into a globally trusted travel-tech partner.