Hugo Burge
Partner & Co-founder @ HOWZAT Partners
Greenlaw, United Kingdom
Hugo Burge is a Series A investor at HOWZAT Partners in Greenlaw focused on Travel and Automotive. Hugo was CEO of Momondo Group, the travel search business operating the momondo and Cheapflights brands, which was acquired by Booking Group for $550m in 2017. He lead the Company for six years prior to the acquisition, but was on the journey from March 2000 when it was a 2 person Wandsworth-based attic operation. Hugo started Cheapflights’ NorthAmerican business, opening its Boston office in 2003 and he led the acquisition of the Danish-based metasearch company momondo in 2011.Hugo is a Director of Marchmont Ventures, which covers a range of business & charitable interests, with the ultimate purpose of encouraging sustainable creativity. He has lead a 6 year restoration of Marchmont House, with plans now to bring it alive as ‘a Home for Makers and Creators’ in the Scottish Borders. Hugo is a Patron of the Borders Art Fair – a community venture to support artists in the Scottish Borders. He is establishing the Marchmont Makers Foundation dedicated to making fine traditional rush-seated chairs in the old stables at Marchmont, keeping alive a village tradition started by Ernest Gimson, one of Britain’s greatest architect designers & a pioneer of the arts & crafts movement.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Industries Hugo Burge invests in
Stages Hugo Burge invests in
Countries Hugo Burge invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Travel 1 (25%)
- Automotive 1 (25%)
- E-Commerce 1 (25%)
- Marketplace 1 (25%)
- Consumer Reviews 1 (25%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (50%)
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Series B 1 (25%)
Investments
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Motorway
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Motorway started in 2017 with a vision to build a better car market for everyone, harnessing the power of technology to deliver an amazing experience.We help everyone to quickly and easily sell their car for the best price from the comfort of home, using only a phone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart tech matches ourcustomers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers. This enables those dealers to buy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.With over 1m car owners using our site and apps every month, we've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun. | $67.7M / Series B / Jun 14, 2021 | |
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Motorway
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Motorway started in 2017 with a vision to build a better car market for everyone, harnessing the power of technology to deliver an amazing experience.We help everyone to quickly and easily sell their car for the best price from the comfort of home, using only a phone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart tech matches ourcustomers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers. This enables those dealers to buy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.With over 1m car owners using our site and apps every month, we've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun. | $14M / Series A / Jun 25, 2019 | |
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Motorway
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Motorway started in 2017 with a vision to build a better car market for everyone, harnessing the power of technology to deliver an amazing experience.We help everyone to quickly and easily sell their car for the best price from the comfort of home, using only a phone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart tech matches ourcustomers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers. This enables those dealers to buy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.With over 1m car owners using our site and apps every month, we've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun. | $3.6M / Seed / May 05, 2018 | |
HereOrThere
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A British company, backed by travel veterans Hugo Burge and David Soskin (involved in CheapFlights), HereOrThere.com has entered into the crowded but not saturated online travel space. The company is a travel social network with personal profiles, ratings/reviews, maps and most other standard features. It also includes the ability for usersto upload pictures and videos of places you've visited.A British survey, YouGov, finds that although the online travel space may be crowded there may still be room for more entrants. It found that 67% of British holidaymakers intend to use the internet to conduct most or all of their travel planning next year (2008). Some 40% of those surveyed said they have not visited a high street travel agent in the last 2 years, and 76% of holiday planning Brits research their destinations online.just a small aside: HereOrThere was originally going to be named | Series A / Jan 01, 2007 |
Co-Investors
About HOWZAT Partners
Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.
HOWZAT Partners Contacts
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Sascha Hausmann
Partner
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Tobias Salzig
Partner
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David Soskin
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Hugo Burge
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What does Hugo Burge invest in?
Hugo Burge invests primarily in Travel, Automotive and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Hugo Burge last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Hugo Burge closed in Jun 2021. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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