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{{Infobox company
| industry = online travel agency
| founded = 2012
| website = www.kiwi.com
| homepage = https://www.kiwi.com/
| name = Kiwi.com
| former_name = skypicker.com
}}Kiwi.com (previously known as skypicker.com) is a Czech online travel agency. On its website, Kiwi.com provides a fare aggregator, metasearch engine and booking for airline tickets. Its unique feature is "virtual interlining" - selling flight itineraries combining normally non-cooperating airlines, while Kiwi.com provides guarantees covering missed connections.[1]

The website skypicker.com was started in 2011, the company, headquartered in Brno, was founded in 2012 by Oliver Dlouhý and Jiří Hlavenka. In 2016 the company acquired the domain name Kiwi.com for $800,000 and rebranded itself to Kiwi.com.[2]

As of 2017 the company is one of the five biggest online sellers of airline tickets in Europe, with yearly turnover around 1.2 billion euros in 2018[3]. Apart from Brno, Kiwi.com has employees also in Barcelona, Spain and Prague, Czech Republic. Kiwi.com has its outsourced partners in: Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Dalian (China), Kiev (Ukraine), Manila (the Philippines), Split and Zagreb (Croatia), Pune, Nashik and Indore (India), Tunisia, Miami (USA), Bangkok (Thailand), Beijing (China), and Ljubljana (Slovenia). .[4]

As of May 2017 the main shareholders of the company are its founders Oliver Dlouhý (24.5%), Jiří Hlavenka (20.2%) and Jozef Képesi (13.4%), Czech venture firm Touzimsky Airlines (21.6%) and Czech businessman and investor Ondřej Tomek (10%).[5][6]

References

1. ^{{cite news|title=Kiwi.com in talks to raise funds for next leg of travel|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cee-summit-kiwi-com-idUSKBN18J2DF|newspaper=Reuters|date= 23 May 2017 |via=Reuters}}
2. ^{{cite news|title=Inside Interview: Behind the $800,000 Purchase of Kiwi.com|url=https://www.namepros.com/blog/inside-interview-behind-the-800-000-purchase-of-kiwi-com.965522/|newspaper=NamePros}}
3. ^{{cite news|title=Hádky kvůli prodeji Kiwi skončily, dospěl jsem, říká zakladatel Dlouhý a zahájil expanzi do Číny|url=https://byznys.ihned.cz/c1-66399490-hadky-kvuli-prodeji-kiwi-skoncily-dospel-jsem-rika-zakladatel-dlouhy-a-zahajil-expanzi-do-ciny|newspaper=Hospodářské Noviny}}
4. ^{{cite news|title=Czech online travel agency Kiwi.com readies expansion push|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/czech-kiwicom-idUSL8N1HT386|newspaper=Reuters|date= 21 April 2017 |via=Reuters}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://or.justice.cz/ias/ui/rejstrik-firma.vysledky?subjektId=676098&typ=PLATNY|title=Veřejný rejstřík a Sbírka listin|publisher=Ministerstvo spravedlnosti České republiky|language=Czech|accessdate=19 June 2017}}
6. ^{{cite news|url=http://archiv.ihned.cz/c1-65709820-do-kiwi-vstupuji-novi-investori-dalsi-chteji-celou-firmu|title=Do Kiwi vstupují noví investoři z Česka. Další zájemci chtějí koupit celou firmu|last=Štiner|first=Roman|date=24 April 2017|work=Hosodářské Noviny|language=Czech|accessdate=19 June 2017}}

5 : Metasearch engines|Companies based in Brno|Travel ticket search engines|Internet properties established in 2012|2012 establishments in the Czech Republic

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