HomeToGo operates a vacation rental search engine that aggregates and compares more than 15 million accommodation offers from over 300 partners in more than 200 countries. The platform includes brands such as Casamundo and Tripping.com and offers features like flexible dates to help users find rentals by destination, dates, budget, and amenities. The company will continue to operate Tripping.com as a brand following the acquisition. Founded in 2014 by Wolfgang Heigl, Dr. Patrick Andrae, and Nils Regge, HomeToGo is based in Berlin and employs more than 150 people. It runs local websites in 13 European countries as well as the United States, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Japan, and Hong Kong. Financially, the company has raised more than $150m to date. HomeToGo provides a metasearch engine for vacation rentals, aggregating more than 11 million offers from over 250 providers including Booking.com, VRBO, HomeAway, TripAdvisor and Tui. Its product includes smart filtering so users can sort by destination, travel dates, budget and amenities. The company has launched localized websites and apps across Europe, North America, Australia and Russia and operates local sites in 12 European countries. HomeToGo was founded in 2014 by Patrick Andrae, Wolfgang Heigl and Nils Regge and currently employs more than 150 people. The company intends to use newly raised funds for further expansion and product development. The article reports a Series C investment round with the deal amount undisclosed. HomeToGo is a Berlin-headquartered metasearch engine for holiday rentals that aggregates listings from booking sites and marketplaces. Its search engine lets users filter by location, dates, budget and amenities, and indexes about 6 million vacation rental offers across 200 countries via roughly 250 partners, including Booking.com, VRBO, HomeAway, HouseTrip and FlipKey. About 3.8 million of those listings are instantly bookable. The company generates affiliate revenue from the traffic it sends to the booking sites it aggregates. Founded in January 2014 by Patrick Andrä, Wolfgang Heigl and Nils Regge, HomeToGo plans to use new capital for further international expansion and product development. It is currently operational in Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. HomeToGo operates a metasearch engine for holiday rentals that aggregates listings from more than 150 rental websites and displays over 2.7 million offers. The service lets users filter by location, dates, budget and amenities, then generates affiliate revenue by sending traffic to partner booking sites. The company says it will use new capital for rapid international expansion, including a planned U.S. launch “soon”; it has recently expanded to the U.K. and Spain and maintains dedicated sites across several European countries. HomeToGo has run a prominent TV ad campaign in Germany and is hiring “at all levels”; it employs about 50 people, 30 of whom are technology-based. The founding team includes executives with exits and experience at Rocket Internet, Swoodoo (acquired by Kayak) and Casamundo, which likely contributed to investor interest.

Total raised

$27M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Apr 2016