million in revenue in 2012 redbus the pioneering bus booking portal and software company has its internal training programme and is now looking at establishing a redbus academy that pools all the knowledge that it has gained about the bus industry and associated technologies ever since it was founded in 2006 the idea is still at a concept stage but charan padmaraju cofounder of the company notes that the quality of skills makes a huge difference we need to particularly develop soft skills managerial leadership and communication skills he says the startup which has been funded by vc firms seedfund inventus and helion has been more than doubling its revenues over the past several years last year it touched a revenue of rs 320 crore and turned profitable we believe well cross rs 700 crore this year padmaraju says that kind of growth requires more and more quality talent and the best way to do that would be to produce them internally