I’m passionate about our work in the Hotel industry. I see that what we’re doing, it drives an improvement everyday, we are actually changing something.
Havar Bauck is excited about these new acquisitions terming them as very good business.: “This is a very exciting deal for us. We have had a long-running relationship with Cloud9, and this was simply the right idea at the right time now.”
Shifter covered how HotelOnline and Key Butler joined forces to launch Stay.Plus, a new company targeting the Nordic short-term rental market. The article also highlights HotelOnline’s growth under Håvar Bauck and Endre Opdal, describing the company’s strong position in African hotel distribution and its wider expansion into the Nordic market. Read more (Article in Norwegian)
“We will use the investment to bolster our existing products and strengthen our focus on delivering outstanding quality to our hotel partners. We will focus on doing what we do best: Creating outstanding value for our hotel partners, and for our shareholders.”
Håvar Bauck, the Norwegian entrepreneur who hit the news earlier this year over his dealings with controversial Polish tech entrepreneur Marek Zmyslowski announced yesterday that his Kenyan travel tech startup HotelOnline had raised $320 000.
Article in Finansavisen, a leading Norwegian business daily, about our 2019 investment round. We raised USD 320,000, with renowned Norwegian startup investor Trond Riiber Knudsen among our new shareholders. Shravan Shroff, the first investor in Indian traveltech unicorn OYO Rooms also joined our board of directors.
Cloud9XP is one of the most exciting ventures in the African traveltech space at the moment. The merger with Heartbeat Ventures creates a new, disruptive force in an industry begging for innovation. – Havar Bauck, Cloud9xp Chairman
We have now concluded a merger between Cloud9XP and Heartbeat Adventures, a more traditional tour operator, to launch an aggressively fast-growing, tech-enabled tours and travel operator with potential to disrupt the East African travel market.
"The merger with Heartbeat Ventures creates a new, disruptive force in an industry begging for innovation. Hotel distribution has moved online, but tours and activities are still marketed and distributed the same way they were 30 years ago."
“In terms of expansion, our current markets already have a combined population of 700 million people! We want to make sure we are the leaders in those markets before we venture into new ones.”
