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Hopper Taps Into Hostaway Client Base in Lastest Strategy Move

2022-10-15 by Phil Butler

Frederic Lalonde

Hopper has now partnered with rental management platform Hostaway to link up a huge market share of Hostaway short-term rentals.

Tags: AirBnb, Fintech, Gen Z, home rentals, hopper, Hopper Homes, Hostaway, hotels, Marcus Rader, rentals, short-term rentals, startups, travel apps, travel tech

Hopper Secures $175 Million Growth Investment Led By GPI Capital

2021-08-23 by Phil Butler

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Canada travel technology business Hopper has just finalized a $175 million Series G funding round led by New York-based GPI Capital.

Tags: 2021 funding, booking technology, cloud tools, Fintech, GPI, hopper, Khai Ha, Price Freeze for Hotels, tech funding, travel data, travel research, travel tech, travel technology 2021, Travel Technology Europe, Travel Technology Update

The Desti (ny) of Semantic Travel Search

2013-01-12 by Phil Butler

Desti, are we "overthinking" solutions?

I am the world’s biggest fan of very advanced search technology. My partner and I, our whole team, we are also travel fanatics. The world around us is so amazing, words seldom suffice actually. A big question came to my mind today as I read Venturebeat about a startup called Desti. “Do I really want or need somebody or something to do my traveling for me?” That’s my question.

Tags: AI, Evature, Expedia search, hopper, Internet searches, search, search tools, semantic search, startups, travel search, travel tools

Hopper Building Advanced Travel Search System

2011-03-15 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Hopper search results

Hopper, a full-text search engine for travel, is now in early alpha testing for its new natural-language-based search technology.  The company is the brainchild of Frederic Lalonde and Joost Ouwerkerk; Lalonde is also the chairman of Tnooz.  The developers working on the project are former Expedia geeks, and the tool they are trying to create […]

Tags: alpha testing, fares, flights, hopper, hotels, rental cars, Tnooz, travel search, web application

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