Portrait interview with me, originally published on Finding Humans in Tech, 2023-04-11
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**nation.africa** Our guest house business started in Syokimau, now it’s thriving across Africa
Interview with me about HotelOnline, published 2023-03-04 in Daily Nation. Text content below: Story in Daily Nation Håvar Bauck is the co-founder of HotelOnline, an African yield management company for hotels, involved in provision of…
**Capital Business** From Starting Kenya’s First Airbnb To Building Digital Revenue Platform For Hotels
Interview originally published in Capital Business 2022-11-02. Text content below: NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 2 – While working in Lagos, Nigeria, Håvar Bauck often visited his friend Endre Opdal in Kenya to discuss business ideas and…
**Phocuswire** HotelOnline Acquires HotelPlus to Accelerate Expansion Across Africa
HotelOnline Acquires HotelPlus to Accelerate Expansion Across Africa News story in Phocuswire about our acquisition of HotelPlus. Text content below: HotelOnline, a Kenya-based revenue management company, has acquired East African hotel software provider HotelPlus. The…
**Skift** Kenya’s HotelOnline, Backed by Yanolja, Buys Hotel Software Brand HotelPlus
https://skift.com/blog/kenyas-hotelonline-backed-by-yanolja-buys-hotel-software-brand-hotelplus/ Interview with me in Skift on 2022-09-12 about our acquisition of HotelPlus. Text content below: HotelOnline, which is based in Kenya and has more than 6,000 hotel clients for its software, has acquired HotelPlus,…
**TechCrunch** Kenya’s HotelOnline acquires hospitality software company HotelPlus
Article originally published in TechCrunch about our acquisition of HotelPlus. 2022-09-12 Story in TechCrunch 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,…
**The Exchange** South Korean unicorn Yanolja invests big in Kenya traveltech HotelOnline
South Korean Traveltech Company Yanolja valued above US$11 billion has made true its wish on getting hold of the African market by investing in Kenya’s HotelOnline. This is not only their first investment in the…
**The Exchange** Kenyan Travel-tech introduces travel enticement in post-pandemic era
HotelOnline, leading e-commerce and digital marketing enabler for hotels in emerging markets rolling out strategic initiatives as East Africa recovers from Covid-19 For many businesses, 2020 would be a year they would not want to…
**Techmoran** How the pandemic led to the launch of FoodleDoodle, East Africa’s first cloud kitchen
https://techmoran.com/2020/07/06/how-the-pandemic-led-to-the-launch-of-foodledoodle-east-africas-first-cloud-kitchen/ Interview with me in Techmoran 2020-07-06 Foodledoodle, the first multi-brand cloud kitchen operation in East Africa has launched in Kenya and is working with hotels to utilize idle kitchen capacity to produce food for…
**The Exchange** A look at Foodledoodle, Kenya’s premier cloud kitchen
Kenyan entrepreneur rolls out unique hospitality franchise Foodledoodle with a chicken point in Nairobi’s Kileleshwa. Kenyan perennial entrepreneur Havar Bauck, teaming with several of his investment partners, has ventured into the global multi-billion-dollar cloud kitchen…