Apartum

apartum.com ↗ ·Barcelona ·Seed

Apartum is a Barcelona-founded (2013) online price-comparison platform for vacation rentals, aggregating and comparing millions of holiday-home listings from providers like Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, HomeAway and TripAdvisor across 50,000+ destinations worldwide. The company raised several small rounds between 2014-2017 (including from Kibo Ventures and Smartech Capital).

Founded

2013

Founders

Total funds raised

€2.9M

SectorsTravel, Vacation Rentals, Price Comparison Start-up MapTravel & Hospitality › Consumer travel & accommodation booking

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Founders

Manuel Ángel Rodríguez Izquierdo

Co-Founder & Board Member

Sergi Villaubí

Founder & former CEO (now VP of Product)

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Global models 5

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HomeToGo

Germany · www.hometogo.com ↗

Vacation rental metasearch engine that compares listings across dozens of booking platforms, essentially the same business model as Apartum but at global scale.

$260MComparable

Kayak

United States · www.kayak.com ↗

Pioneering travel metasearch/comparison engine covering flights, hotels and rentals, same comparison-aggregator model applied more broadly.

$251M (acquired by Priceline for $1.8B)Comparable

Skyscanner

United Kingdom · www.skyscanner.net ↗

Major travel price-comparison platform; same metasearch/aggregation model as Apartum, applied to flights and travel broadly.

$197M (acquired by Ctrip for $1.75B)Comparable

Holidu

Germany · www.holidu.com ↗

European vacation-rental search and comparison platform aggregating listings from multiple booking sites, directly comparable to Apartum's niche and model.

$145MComparable

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Investors 5

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Kibo Ventures

www.kiboventures.com

Led Seed 2017 Spain

Lanta Digital Ventures

lantacapital.com ↗

Led Seed 2014 Spain

SeedSyndicates

2 rounds · 2015–17 Spain

Pablo Zubicaray

Seed 2014 Spain

Smartech Capital

www.smartechcapital.com ↗

Seed 2017 Spain

Funding rounds 3

Date	Round	Amount	Lead
2017-02-15	Seed (estimated)	€2M	Kibo Ventures +2 more
2015-09-07	Seed (estimated)	€500K	Lead not disclosed +1 more
2014-10-09	Seed	€400K	Lanta Digital Ventures +1 more

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