(MENAFNEditorial) HouseTrip

London, United Kingdom
Consumer Services
www.housetrip.com

HouseTrip is one of Europe's largest holiday rental websites, with over 260,000 properties to choose from in thousands of destinations worldwide.

HouseTrip makes it easy for Guests and homeowners to find, book and list holiday rental properties securely online.

Founded by husband and wife team Arnaud Bertrand and Junjun Chen, HouseTrip went live in January 2010 and has since seen over 6,000,000 nights booked. There are HouseTrip offices in the UK (London), Switzerland (Lausanne) and Portugal (Lisbon.)

HouseTrip recently received $40 million in Series C funding led by Accel Partners with existing investors Balderton Capital and Index Ventures.

For more information, visit www.housetrip.com.

Management Chief Executive Officer Arnaud Bertrand

Arnaud is the founder & CEO of HouseTrip, Europe's largest holiday apartments platform. HouseTrip was launched in January 2010 and is one of the fastest growing websites in Europe, with already thousands of apartments in hundreds of destinations. The company is financed by Index Ventures and various business angels. Awards won include Venture Kick, Venture Leaders, Get Funded Show, the CTI label and Telegraph 100.

Arnaud is recognised as a key individual in the travel entrepreneurship scene and is often asked to speak at events and universities accross Europe.

Chief Operating Officer David Norris

Discovering his passion for online businesses in 2000, David is now on his fourth startup.

Before moving to IOVOX, he worked as Director of eCommerce & Website Operations at Expedia and COO in growth stages of HouseTrip and Livebookings.

Director Neil Rimer

Neil Rimer is the Board Director of Moo Print Ltd.

He is also a Partner of Index Ventures which he founded in Geneva with Giuseppe Zocco and David Rimer.

Neil started the venture capital activity of Index's predecessor firm, later co-founding Index Ventures and raising the firm's first fund in 1996.

Prior to this, Neil spent four years with Montgomery Securities in San Francisco.

Neils current investment interests include Internet media, e-commerce, entertainment and education businesses as well as capital-efficient, information-oriented cleantech companies. He currently serves on a number of Boards including,

FundingCircle,

doubleTwist,

HouseTrip,

Lehigh Technologies,

MOO Print,

Netvibes,

Photobox,

Redwood Systems,

Stack Exchange,

Weatherbill .

Previously Neil Sponsored and Served on the Boards of,

Betfair (LSE:BET.L),

Last.

David Silva

David is a web developer since 2009, with some knowledge in open source languages such as Perl, PHP and Ruby.
He discovered ruby on rails in 2010, but only in 2011 he started to develop in it. Since then he breathes Ruby as if is life depends on it.

Junjun Chen-Bertrand

Founder at HouseTrip

George Hadjigeorgiou

Chief Business Officer at HouseTrip

News / Links Vacation Rental Startup HouseTrip Picks Up $40M Led By Accel In Another Big Round For Collaborative HouseTrip Gets $17m Series B Led By Balderton Capital HouseTrip raises $2.7m from Index Ventures, relaunches today

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