Group travellers get split
Families and friends book together and land in different coaches. A child in S4, the parent in S9, and eleven hours to fix it.
Pre-launch Provisional patent filed · 202521058825
Every month, 1 Crore 9 Lakh Indian railway passengers travel in a seat they didn't want.
RailXchange finds and connects the passengers who want each other's seats — on every train, every day.
The problem
The seat you booked is rarely the seat you wanted.
Indian Railways allocates berths by algorithm and availability — not by who you're travelling with, or what your body needs. Three failures repeat on every single departure.
Solo travellers get the wrong berth
An elderly passenger stranded on an upper berth. A woman travelling alone on a lower berth who would rather be up top.
No one knows the others exist
On every train there is an invisible web of contrasting preferences — perfectly complementary, entirely unaware of each other.
The solution
RailXchange makes the invisible web visible
One protocol that reads every preference on a train, ranks who fits whom, and keeps searching until the best possible swap is found.
Best match first
Exact matches sit at the top, near matches queue behind them — each one carrying the reason it fits you.
Negotiate in parallel
Reach multiple matches at once instead of one at a time. Chat or call, and settle with whoever agrees first.
We never stop looking
A better match appears later in the journey? You're told immediately — the search runs until the train pulls in.
Perfect matches are rare.
Better seats are not.
How it works
Three steps, under a minute
From booking confirmation to an agreed swap — without a single call to the TTE.
Enter your PNR
The app reads it automatically from your IRCTC booking SMS. No forms, no typing out coach and berth numbers.
Set your preference
Move closer to your group, get a different berth type, or help someone else and earn rewards for it.
Find your match
Ranked by compatibility, with the reason each one fits. Chat to agree, then simply meet on the train.
Market
13 Crore journeys a year
where a swap would help
The problem regenerates on every departure. The market never depletes.
SAM Serviceable available market
1 Crore 9 Lakh passengersper month — actively mismatched and reachable today
TAM Total addressable market
7 Crore 32 Lakh passengersper month — every reserved-class traveller on the network
Provisional patent filed 202521058825
Covers a preference-based, proximity-aware slot transfer protocol — the matching and negotiation layer behind every swap.
Built by IIT Kharagpur + AIIMS Nagpur founders
Signal processing and machine learning, paired with clinical and regulatory judgement.
Founders
Two people who kept watching this happen
An engineer who builds matching systems, and a doctor who has spent enough nights on the wrong berth to know exactly what it costs.
Karanveer Singh
Co-founder
IIT Kharagpur
Electrical Engineering
M.Tech · Signal Processing & ML
Product and operations builder with experience in healthcare-tech and AI startups.
Dr. Malhar Paneliya
Co-founder
AIIMS Nagpur
MBBS
Medical doctor with expertise in legal documentation, marketing strategy, and growth.
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