HotelQuickly is a booking website and smartphone app, available for Android and iOS devices, that allows users to find discounted hotels throughout the world. The service has access to over 250,000 hotels and is localized to 17 different languages, including Thai; Vietnamese; Japanese; traditional and simplified Chinese; and English.
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History
HotelQuickly was founded in December 2012 by Tomas Laboutka (CEO), Christian Mischler (COO & CMO), Michal Juhas (CTO), Mario Peng (CFO), and Raphael Cohen (CSO). Laboutka and Juhas previously founded ventures in Central Europe, Mischler and Cohen were co-founders and Managing Directors of Rocket Internet ventures in Asia, and Peng joined from global private equity fund Partners Group.Mischler is also currently serving as a partner at Swiss Founders Fund.
The following March, HotelQuickly was launched publicly in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Within less than a year, we had expanded to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Macau, as well as overseas to Australia and New Zealand, making HotelQuickly the first to provide last-minute mobile-only hotel booking on the two continents.
In August 2013, HotelQuickly secured HK$9 million in angel funding. Investors included Koh Boon Hwee, former Chairman of Singtel and Chairman of Singapore Airlines and board member of several private companies such as Singapore's Temasek Holdings. US$4.5 million in Series A-1 funding was raised in the Spring 2014, bringing the total funds raised to US$5.65 million. The second round was led by GREE and co-invested by William E. Heinecke, Chairman and CEO of Minor International.
In 2016, HotelQuickly expanded in the Asia-Pacific region to the Philippines, Myanmar, Laos, South Korea and Japan bringing the number of available countries on the application to 16. At the end of February 2016, HotelQuickly announced the acquisition of Japanese last-minute hotel booking app Tonight, which was acquired for an undisclosed amount and was fully integrated into HotelQuickly.
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