Proptech startup for hotels, Amenitiz, raises 620k euros in funding

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

The startup offers from creation and editing of websites to reservation systems and relations with external, such as Airbnb

It does not transport luggage, but customers from the digital to the physical world. Barcelona's Amenitiz start-up centralizes and automates the digital needs of hotels and independent accommodation so that they can, for example, make reservations from their own website.

“There are many hotels that today do not offer this option,” says Emmanuelle Guinefolleau, Co-Founder of the startup. Its services range from the creation and daily edition of a scalable website, integrating a direct booking system and a connection to the main external sales channels (Booking, Expedia, Airbnb etc).

The ideologists of the business project is Alexandre Guinefolleau (Emmanuelle's husband), who studied at the prestigious hotel school in Lausanne, in Switzerland, and Frédéric Cadet also completes the founding trio. They created Amenitiz in October 2017 thanks to an initial investment of 40,000 euros and chose Barcelona as the company's headquarters for the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the city, but also because Emmanuelle Guinefolleau confesses a crush on the Catalan capital. They have had the help of Netmentora Catalunya, a European business association that is dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs.

The startup began operating in June 2018 and at this time it has captured close to 400 clients in countries such as Spain, France, England or Italy. “We charge a monthly payment and depending on the number of bedrooms and the services contracted,” explains the Co-Founder. They plan to close the year with a turnover of 210,000 euros and by 2020 they already have a turnover of 1.3 million euros.

Financing

620,000 euros round

They have just raised 620,000 euros in funds, which have been contributed by the family office Otium Capital (of the founders of SmartBox) and by several business angels from the travel sector, especially Sébastien Venturini (from Weekendesk), Antoine Giraud (Groupcorner) and Guillaume Rostand (Liligo)

The money is serving to expand the workforce of the company, which has gone from 10 to the current 25, which will be 30 at the end of the year and 55 at the end of 2020, according to Amenitiz. The name of the company comes from the English amenity, which is what the hotel reception products are called.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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