HomeToGo secures $20 million funding for international expansion

German holiday accommodation rental metasearch engine HomeToGo has raised $20 million in series-B funding.

German holiday accommodation rental metasearch engine HomeToGo has raised $20 million in series-B funding.

The fresh capital will be used for further international expansion and to improve the company’s product offering.

The funding has come from Insight Venture Partners and previous backers DN Capital and Acton Capital Partners.

Founded in January 2014 by entrepreneurs Dr Patrick Andrä, Wolfgang Heigl and Nils Regge, the Berlin-based company offers holiday home search across 200 countries and via 250 partners.

These include Booking.com, HomeAway, HouseTrip and FlipKey, and amount to 6 million searchable vacation rental offers, of which 3.8 million are instantly bookable accommodation.

The start-up generates affiliate revenue for the traffic it sends to the booking sites it aggregates.