Mobissimo

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Mobissimo
Type Private
Foundation date 2004 (2004)
Headquarters United States San Francisco, California, USA
Area served Worldwide
Key people Béatrice Tarka
(Co-founder)
Svetlozar Nestorov
(Co-founder)[1]
Industry Travel, Internet
Revenue Private
Employees 10 (2010)
Alexa rank 67,504 (2013)
Registration Optional
Available in English (US, UK, Indian), French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Indian, Japanese, Portuguese (BR)
Launched January 1st, 2004
Mobissimo is a travel search engine website based in San Francisco, California. It allows consumers to compare prices on flights, hotels, and car rentals. It aggregates the results from over 180 online travel agencies, consolidators, and ticket vendors to show a side-by-side comparison of the best deals found on the web. It then redirects the visitor to the site with the best rates. The company offers country-specific websites in North America, Brazil, Mexico, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Germany, the UK, India and Japan. [2]

History

The site was founded in 2004 with one million USD of seed financing from Benhamou Global Ventures, Cambrian Ventures and Index Ventures.

Media

Mobissimo initially garnered attention in the media for its low fares and groundbreaking approach to travel booking. In 2010, the Chicago Tribune quoted it as one of the “3 Leading Search Engines” for travel.[3] It was also said to “out execute” their main competitor, Kayak, by TechCrunch.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "This Travel Search Site Could Go Far". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 24 June 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Tnooz.com News Article". 
  3. ↑ Gardner, Terry (2010-04-16). "Chicago Tribune". 
  4. ↑ "TechCrunch.com - Technology". 

External links

  • Defunct services shown in italics
  • Category: Travel Search Engines
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