Article published in The Exchange on 2021-02-01 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…
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[Techmoran] How the pandemic led to the launch of FoodleDoodle, East Africa’s first cloud kitchen
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 delivery under its own brands. Foodledoodle and…
[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…
[shifter.no] Key Butler slår seg sammen med afrikansk hotellkjempe: Vil kapre utleiemarkedet
Key Butler slår seg sammen med afrikansk hotellkjempe: Vil kapre utleiemarkedet Article published on Shifter.no on 2019-09-10 HotelOnline og Key Butler samler krefter i en ny utleieplattform. Bak HotelOnline står Håvar Bauck og Endre Opdal. Gründerne har i løpet av…
[TechMoran] HotelOnline to merge operations with Key Butler, a Norwegian traveltech startup
Article published in Techmoran on 2019-09-12 HotelOnline and Key Butler have agreed to merge their Norwegian entities in a European market consolidation move. Key Butler and HotelOnline merger will form Stay Plus and will target the Scandinavian rental…
[Techmoran] HotelOnline Raises $320,000 from TRK Group, OYO Rooms early investor Shravan Shroff among others
HotelOnline Raises $320,000 from TRK Group, OYO Rooms early investor Shravan Shroff among others Article published in Techmoran on 2019-07-11 Nairobi-based travel tech platform HotelOnline, has raised $320,000 from its existing investors and new investors such…
[Ventureburn] Norwegian Håvar Bauck’s Kenyan startup HotelOnline announces it’s raised $320k
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. The company provides solutions…
[BW Hotelier] Shravan Shroff Joins HotelOnline Board of Directors
Shravan Shroff Joins HotelOnline Board of Directors Article in BusinessWorld Hotelier, published on 2019-07-10 HotelOnline is a travel tech scale-up, started by Norwegian entrepreneurs Håvar Bauck and Endre Opdal, both living in Kenya. HotelOnline, with…
[Finansavisen] Putter penger i afrikansk hotellbooking
Article published in Finansavisen on 2019-07-08 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….
[The Exchange] Kenyan companies leads with travel-tech for hotels in Africa
Kenyan companies leads with travel-tech for hotels in Africa Article in The Exchange, published on 2019-06-13 Cloud9xp, leading online marketplace, booking service and distributor for leisure experiences with a Kenyan base has announced that they…
[Ventureburn] Norwegian Håvar Bauck behind Cloud9xp merger in Kenya
Bauck, who is also the chairman of HotelOnline, hit the news in Ventureburn in February when the controversial Zmyslowski in 2017 tried to conclude a deal to merge his startup with Bauck’s (see this story, this one and this one)….
[Techmoran] Kenya’s safari marketplace Cloud9XP acquires competitor Heartbeat Adventures, goes into flight & hotel bookings
Cloud9xp, an online marketplace, booking service and distributor for leisure experiences backed by Hotel Online has merged with Hearbeat Adventures, a tech-enabled tours and travel companies in the region. Speaking to TechMoran, Cloud9xp Cofounder, Tesh Mbaabu said,…
[The Exchange] HotelOnline conquers Africa from Kenya
HotelOnline conquers Africa from Kenya Article published in The Exchange on 2019-04-25 How two Norwegians turned Kenyan built a global traveltech success from five apartments in Syokimau When Håvar Bauck landed in Kenya in 2002,…
[Techmoran] Kaleidoscope Africa’s series of events to boost tech entrepreneurship in Kenya
Article published in TechMoran, 2019-04-18 Kaleidoscope Africa, an initiative by four Nairobi-based entrepreneurs, aims to create a forum for the entrepreneurship community of Nairobi centered around new, innovative entrepreneurship-related topics to be discussed or presented…
[The Exchange] Kenyan based entrepreneurs launch talk forums
Kenya based entrepreneurs launch talk forums Article published in The Exchange on 2019-04-02 Nairobi is expected to host a new series of entrepreneurial discussions and talks that will promote the growth of businesses in the…
[TechMoran] HotelOnline signs up over 1500 hotels across 17 markets in Africa, Europe & South Asia
Article in Techmoran, 2018-09-27 HotelOnline, an online hotel booking software suite firm that helps hotels get online bookings through its super simple, cloud-based dashboard to manage bookings, rates and availability from one place has signed…
[Finansavisen] Tar norsk reiseteknologi til Afrika
Article published in Finansavisen on 2018-05-07 Finansavisen, a leading Norwegian business daily, writing about HotelOnline acquiring European Travel Group, the company behind the Cityhotels booking portal. The story was featured on the front page.
[Techmoran] HotelOnline acquires Senegalese Teranga Solutions to bolster its hotel booking business in Africa
Article published in Techmoran on 2018-05-15 Senegalese Teranga Solutions has merged with HotelOnline to create a traveltech industry leader in the global frontier markets. The companies individually had systems and business models that were complimentary and together they now…
[Innovation in Africa] Travel tech start-up HotelOnline’s Co-Founder Havar Bauck on a merger that almost went wrong
Travel tech start-up HotelOnline’s Co-Founder Havar Bauck on a merger that almost went wrong and fundraising global expansion in emerging markets Article in SmartMonkeyTV, published on 2018-04-01 Getting up out of the early growth stage…
[Techweez] Founder Håvar Bauck on building HotelOnline to become a booking stalwart
Article published in Techweez on 2017-12-06 Havar Bauck, the founder and executive Chairman of HotelOnline is a Norwegian but is quick to note that he was born in Norway, but his heart is with his lovely wife…
[Travel Daily News] Local Go Global! African hotels equipped with a new business engine
Local Go Global! African hotels equipped with a new business engine Article in Travel Daily News, published on 2017-06-16 The combination puts HotelOnline at the forefront of online hospitality solutions industry in Africa, active in…
[Nigeria Communications Week] HotelOnline Opens in Nigeria After Merger with Savanna Sunrise
HotelOnline Opens in Nigeria After Merger with Savanna Sunrise Article published in Nigeria Communications Week on 2017-06-16 African hotels gain a much stronger business partner as Savanna Sunrise Ltd. and Hotel Online Sp. z.o.o complete…
[Innovation Village] HotelOnline announces merger, appoints former Jovago head as Nigeria’s country manager
HotelOnline announces merger, appoints former Jovago head as Nigeria’s country manager Article in Innovation Village, published on 2017-06-15 Savanna Sunrise Ltd. and Hotel Online Sp. z.o.o today announced the completion of their merger and the…
[Finansavisen] Nordmenn tar føringen i afrikansk hotellbooking
Article published in Finansavisen on 2017-03-06 Article in Finansavien, a leading Nowegian business daily, about Savanna Sunrise rising in African markets. At this time, we had successfully built a very strong position in East Africa,…
[Phocuswire] HotelOga and Savanna Sunrise merge, plot travel tech domination in Africa
HotelOga and Savanna Sunrise merge, plot travel tech domination in Africa Article published in Phocuswire (formerly Tnooz) on 2017-02-20 Two African companies have joined forces in a bid to create what they claim will be…