Supplier News29 June 2021Hotelhero founders join apaleo, an API-first hospitality platform. Now united under one vision to offer seamless connectivity based upon apaleo's digital transactional platform for accommodation provider.We are more certain than ever that we, together with apaleo can accelerate the digital potential for hotels around the globe. Florian Montag, co-founder and managing director of Hotelhero.Hotelhero was started in 2017 by three Hoteliere de Lausanne Julien Schmit, Thibault Geence, and Florian Montag. Their vision was to create a bridge between software vendors and hotels. Hotelhero became the go-to source for information for thousands upon thousands of hoteliers worldwide within three years. Hoteliers can use a unique industry platform to find and choose their software. It is based on market share data and unique property characteristics. User-generated reviews are also used as a recommendation engine.Despite the availability of seamless integration applications, hotels still face the greatest hurdle due to limited integration capabilities and missing data standardization. With their open platform, API-first approach and unique platform, we believe apaleo has the ability to make this a reality.The founders of apaleos are driving innovation in the hospitality sector with the vision to allow #FreedomToCreate both for accommodation providers and third-party developers. The company is the only cloud platform that uses 100% open APIs to make it easy for app providers to connect to one ecosystem.During the COVID-19 pandemic apaleo saw a 300% increase in its customer base. The pandemic brought attention to some of the most urgent challenges facing our industry, including technology. As hoteliers recognize the need to secure guest journeys and automate their operations, we have witnessed a shift in mindset.We plan to continue developing apaleo's app ecosystem and create the first truly plug-and-play app store to serve the needs of accommodation providers, says Thibault Gence (Co-founder and COO at Hotelhero).Martin Reichenbach says, "Closing our Series A investment March allowed us to take advantage of the unique opportunity to bring these talented entrepreneurs to apaleo to join our diverse team here in Munich. Thibault, Julien, Florian and Julien bring extensive industry knowledge and expertise in hotel technology, which will help us develop the apaleo community.Uli Pillau, co-founder and CEO at apaleo, concludes: We were impressed by the work of the Hotelhero team and now it is the right time for us to come together to share our experience and help us grow internationally.You can contact the new apaleo team members by email at [emailprotected], [emailprotected], or [emailprotected].About HotelheroHotelhero was founded in Berlin in 2017. It is a dedicated platform that allows hotels to review, manage and discover their technology. Hotelhero has created a top-of-the-line hotel technology database that includes over 1,500 software products related to hospitality and data from over 25,000 hotels who use them. Hoteliers can review software products and receive recommendations based upon market share data, unique hotel criteria and user-generated reviews. Hotelhero is a partner with the German Hotel Association and the Austrian Hoteliers Association.
