# William Heinecke

> William Heinecke is a Series A investor at Minor International backing Mobile and Travel. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Minor International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/minor-international)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jul 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

William Heinecke is a Series A investor at Minor International focused on Mobile and Travel. William Heinecke - CEO & Chairman @ Minor International

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 1 | 100% |
| Travel | 1 | 100% |
| Hospitality | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HotelQuickly | 1.5 million users. More than 200,000 hotels. Destinations in every corner of the globe. Since its founding, HotelQuickly has made traveler’s lives easier by providing a simple, stress-free way to book cheap hotel rooms last minute.In December 2012, five visionaries joined forces to give birth to a new idea that would change the way you travel.Out of the minds of Tomas Laboutka, Christian Mischler, Michal Juhas, Mario Peng and Raphael Cohen came mobile booking website and app HotelQuickly.The following March, they launched publicly in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Within less than a year, they had expanded to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Macau, as well as overseas to Australia and New Zealand, making HotelQuickly the first to provide last-minute mobile-only hotel booking on the two continents.In the years since, they have expanded throughout Asia and then all across the globe, with headquarters in Hong Kong and Bangkok and offices throughout the region. In 2016, HotelQuickly acquired and fully integrated Japanese app Tonight. And that’s just the start of what’s to come.Since their founding, they have raised a total of $US 5.6 million in investor funding, which they have used to make hotel bookers’ experiences as fantastic as possible. Their innovation and rapid growth has been featured by media outlets such as TechCrunch, Forbes, CBS, NBC, TechInAsia, TheNextWeb, Yahoo, and Tnooz. | $4.5M | Series A | Jul 09, 2014 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Gree](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gree) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Minor International

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Minor International.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| William Heinecke | CEO & Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-e-heinecke |

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## FAQ

### What does William Heinecke invest in?

William Heinecke invests primarily in Mobile, Travel and Hospitality startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Hong Kong. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did William Heinecke last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for William Heinecke closed in Jul 2014. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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