HotelOnline enables e-commerce and digital marketing for hotels in Africa and Pakistan. We take local hotels from the era of books, to online bookings. We enable local businesses to compete against the global chains
Location: United Arab Emirates, Dubai
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +254 789 300000
Total raised: $320K
Founded date: 2014
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Stratel | stratel.no |
| - | Chanzo Cap... | chanzocapi... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 11.07.2019 | - | $320K | - |
Mentions in press and media 21
| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.09.2025 | From Lagos to Munich: 5 acquisitions and 1 exit – African startups expanding into Europe | I have dedicated my work to building bridges between continents, connecting ecosystems, creating opportunities for exchange, and developing new business ties between startups across Africa and Europe. We cannot deny that, compared to Europe... |
| 12.09.2022 | Kenya’s HotelOnline acquires hospitality software company HotelPlus | HotelOnline, a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. ... |
| 19.08.2021 | LT Capital and SMOK Back SmartHotel Once Again, Aided by More Investors | Polish contactless communication provider for hotels SmartHotel receives USD 1MLN in another Seed Round. The solution’s main advantages is that it works through regular messengers (such as WhatsApp) and doesn’t require installing anything e... |
| 24.12.2019 | Are these the 10 biggest deals by African tech startups in 2019? | Big money. That’s what African 86 tech startups raised this year. While not every startup wanted to disclose how much they raised, those that did made a ton of it — almost $290-million going on data from 88 venture capital (VC) disclosed d... |
| 24.12.2019 | Are these the 10 biggest deals by African tech startups in 2019? | Big money. That’s what African 86 tech startups raised this year. While not every startup wanted to disclose how much they raised, those that did made a ton of it — almost $290-million going on data from 88 venture capital (VC) disclosed de... |
| 13.09.2019 | HotelOnline merger will create Nordic frontend with an African engine – Håvar Bauck | Norwegian Håvar Bauck, the founder of Kenyan startup HotelOnline, has merged his startup’s Nordic activities with the Norwegian entity of Key Butler, a Nordic traveltech that assists house owners rent out their homes on AirBnB. The merger b... |
| 13.09.2019 | HotelOnline merger will create Nordic frontend with an African engine – Håvar Bauck | Norwegian Håvar Bauck, the founder of Kenyan startup HotelOnline, has merged his startup’s Nordic activities with the Norwegian entity of Key Butler, a Nordic traveltech that assists house owners rent out their homes on AirBnB. The merger ... |
| 12.08.2019 | Nigerian Edmund Olotu’s TechAdvance raises $1m from Bahrain investor | Lagos-based payments infrastructure firm TechAdvance has secured $1-million in funding from Bahrain’s Lamar Holding. TechAdvance was founded in 2009 by CEO Edmund Olotu (pictured above) and develops payments applications. Olotu hit Ventureb... |
| 12.08.2019 | Nigerian Edmund Olotu’s TechAdvance raises $1m from Bahrain investor | Lagos-based payments infrastructure firm TechAdvance has secured $1-million in funding from Bahrain’s Lamar Holding. TechAdvance was founded in 2009 by CEO Edmund Olotu (pictured above) and develops payments applications. Olotu hit Ventur... |
| 11.07.2019 | Norwegian Håvar Bauck’s Kenyan startup HotelOnline announces it’s raised $320k [Updated] | 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 00... |
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