Zomato to restructure the company into two key business verticals- Consumers and Enterprise.

Zomato, the online restaurant search engine is planning to expand its reach to over 40 countries by the end of 2016.

"We will enter around 40 countries by end of 2016 by adding about 18 countries by the end of the next year," shared Deepinder Goyal, Founder and CEO, Zomato.

The company currently has presence in 22 countries and provides in-depth information of over 1.4 million restaurants.

Zomato is looking to enter to countries like Europe, South East Asia and Latin America, as these are reasonably large size (markets) and many of them don't have a large enough player.

"We have already started looking for people in all these countries but launching in any country takes around 6 months. We always start with hiring the country manager first and in general it takes about three months to find the right person and then all other things become easy," added Goyal.

When asked if Zomato was also looking for taking inorganic route for future growth, Goyal said: "We are very ad-hoc when it comes to inorganic growth. We are not hunting for acquisitions. It will be mainly organic growth."

The CEO further said India and UAE have been profitable for a long time. The other markets that have become profitable are New Zealand, Philippines, Indonesia, South Africa, Qatar and Lebanon.

Going forward Zomato is planning to restructure the company into two key business verticals -- Consumers and Enterprise.

"We are planing to gradually restructure Zomato into two business verticals -- 'Consumers' side of business which will have apps for consumers that is Zomato app and website, and 'Enterprise' which will have products that are being made for restaurants," he added.

On the enterprise side there will be white-label apps, table reservation software called book, payments product called cashless and point of sale called base, he said.

Zomato has so far raised total funding to $225 million from four investors - Info Edge, Sequoia India, Vy Capital and Temasek.

Founded in 2008, Zomato employs over 3,000 people across 22 countries. Available on web and mobile, it provides restaurant information such as menus, contact details, pictures and user reviews.