Congrats guys, I'm so happy the product will live on.
Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur
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Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur
#12Concur feels like an odd company to acquire them, but maybe it's to streamline business travel?
Also -- I recently used Hipmunk (been using it for a few years now), but found that it didn't find deals that Chase's rewards portal found, which I thought was terribly odd (why would a rewards portal find better deals?).
Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur
#13Their business class search has been broken for months, and they didn't care. Feels like they were on the way out.
Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur
#14Concur feels like an odd company to acquire them, but maybe it's to streamline business travel? Also -- I recently used Hipmunk (been using it for a few years now), but found that it didn't find deals that Chase's rewards portal found, which I thought was terribly odd (why would a rewards portal find better deals?).
Concur also acquired TripIt not so long ago
Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur
#15Congrats to Adam, Steve and team! Flight search is a tough industry to break into, and they did a great job against the odds to get there.
Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur
#16Concur feels like an odd company to acquire them, but maybe it's to streamline business travel? Also -- I recently used Hipmunk (been using it for a few years now), but found that it didn't find deals that Chase's rewards portal found, which I thought was terribly odd (why would a rewards portal find better deals?).
The difference is Hipmunk is a metasearch site and relies on the connectivity it gets from travel agencies and airlines directly to power their price feeds and then you book with an agency/airline directly. Chase rewards portal is probably acting as a booking agent so may have access to prices/itineraries that are not found on metasearch sites.
Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur
#17Anyone have insight into the sale price?
Hipmunk raised $55M over 7 rounds [1] and had 51 employees [2].
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#19Hipmunk and Google Flights are my two go-to tools these days for beginning the search for flight tickets. I use Hipmunk when I know where I want to go and when, and I use Google Flights when I know I want to take a trip, but I'm flexible about both when and where.
You might like to check out a product that I built, Concorde (https://concorde.io), for your flexible travel search needs — you can see the cheapest flights to hundreds of destinations worldwide with just a couple of clicks.
Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur
#20Hipmunk has been an excellent flight search tool, the best I have found as of a few years ago. Shockingly better than most of the rest of them back when it started, in terms of being able to understand and choose among numerous choices. Unfortunately, that was then and this is now. Several of the airlines have dropped out of participating in flight comparison sites, and those that do apparently pay staggeringly littl…
What is the best flight search these days?
Disclaimer: I work at Kiwi.com.
At https://kiwi.com we combine flights ourselves instead of just taking the combinations from the big guys, you should try it out with a few queries. Not being limited to airline agreements when connecting flights can really drive the price down or make obscure routes viable.