Kiwi.com, founded in 2012 and headquartered in the Czech Republic, operates a travel-technology platform that enables users to combine flights across legacy and low-cost airlines via its Virtual Interlining algorithm. The company says it performs 2 billion price checks per day across 95% of global flight content, handles 50 million searches daily, and sells over 70,000 seats each day, and employs more than 1,000 people worldwide. Kiwi.com's stated mission is to support customers throughout their journey by surfacing unique itineraries and the lowest fares not available elsewhere. Current product priorities include improving customer experience with a single point of contact and support, expanding unique content and hidden itineraries, and continuing product innovation beyond flight tickets. Management says the company is capitalizing on a strong recovery in demand for flights and travel globally and is focused on accelerating growth to support more customers. Kiwi.com is an online travel booking platform founded in 2012 that uses proprietary algorithms and virtual interlining to combine flights from over 500 airlines. Its core product matches passengers to multiple carriers on single itineraries to offer expansive, value-focused flight options. The company sells more than €1 billion in tickets globally, processes over 90 million flight searches daily, and employs over 2,400 people. In 2018 Kiwi.com launched NOMAD (a multi‑flight consumer product) and Tequila (a B2B platform) and continues to partner with airlines, online travel agencies, and metasearch engines. The business has been recognized as one of the fastest‑growing Czech startups and was named the best Czech startup by Forbes. Skypicker is a Brno-based booking engine for low-cost flights. The company operates an extensive database of budget flights in Europe. Skypicker plans to expand sales of tickets from Europe to the rest of the world, specialising in the low-cost segment. Skypicker was founded in 2012 and was initially funded with $24K from Czech entrepreneur and angel investor Jiří Hlavenka. In December 2013 Skypicker acquired competitor WhichAirline.com, a Brno-based flight meta-search founded in 2010 by Lukas and Barbora Nevosad. Recently Skypicker secured $500K in seed funding from Touzimsky Airlines.

Total raised

$106M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Jun 2022