How Montreal travel app Hopper plans to compete against Google, Amazon and Airbnb while chasing $2 billion in bookings

Travel app Hopper is set to significantly increase its hotel listings and launch new services for flyers as it seeks to double bookings to an annual rate of $2 billion by the end of 2019.

The Montreal-headquartered company’s moves come as Google and Amazon start to build out their own travel offerings and Airbnb considers a new transportation division.

In a sit-down interview with The Logic , Frederic Lalonde, Hopper’s CEO and co-founder, explained how Hopper hopes to double bookings in just 12 months by launching flight add-ons like insurance and by rapidly expanding the number of cities where it lists hotels.

“You’re going to see us grow,” he said. “There’s no possible question about that.”

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As Americans regain their appetite for vacations, Montreal-based travel startup Hopper Inc. has raised a US$175-million investment that will go toward expanding its team and its fintech services.

The financing, which values the company at US$3.5-billion, was led by GPI Capital, with Glade Brook Capital, WestCap, Goldman Sachs Growth and Accomplice also participating.

Hopper tracks hotel and airfare quotes, and uses artificial intelligence to predict whether users should book a trip or a room now, or wait for the price to drop. It has evolved from a travel company into a fintech player that sells cancellation insurance to travellers, and, for a fee, allows them to freeze the price of a flight for several days. Hopper co-founder and chief executive officer Fred Lalonde told The Globe and Mail 70 per cent of the company’s…

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Travel tech firm Hopper raises $170 million, gears up for vacation boom

Cofounders of travel tech company Hopper, Frederic Lalonde and Joost Ouwerkerk.

Hopper, a travel-tech company based in Boston and Montreal, said Wednesday that it has raised $170 million in new venture capital, a sign that investors are betting on some form of travel returning in the near future.

Hopper’s travel-focused app uses an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence to make pricing predictions and travel recommendations for users. Over the past year, following a $70 million funding round last spring, employees at Hopper have been building out several aspects of its travel app as the company tries to emerge from the pandemic stronger. Hopper created a feature for car rentals and added a new process for cancellations and booking changes.

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The funding is part of Hopper’s new partnership with Capital One to power the Capital One Travel platform, which will use the startup’s technology to help cardholders book flights, hotels, and cars. This feature is expected to debut in the second half of the year.

Hopper was founded in 2007 but did not launch its travel app until years later. For a brief period, the company pumped the brakes on its original idea of building a tool to suggest vacation ideas, spending time focused on mobile airfare-shopping instead.

Although the pandemic has wreaked havoc on the travel industry, it appears Hopper was able to withstand the hit. After being one of the first companies to cut employees last March, Hopper reported triple-digit revenue growth last year, and over the past two quarters it has grown its customer service team by 180 percent to meet growing demand for its services.

“Although last year was the most challenging year the travel industry has ever faced, our team at Hopper has never felt more confident in our future,” said Frederic Lalonde, cofounder and chief executive of Hopper, in a blog post.

The latest round of funding was led by Capital One with participation from GS Growth, Inovia Capital, WestCap Group, and Citi Ventures.

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Montreal Hopper valued at US$5 billion as Brookfield invests in travel startup

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Frédéric Lalonde, founder and CEO of Hopper Inc., in front of their offices in Montreal on March 19, 2021. Christine Muschi/The Globe and Mail

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. BAM-AT acquired a stake in Hopper Inc. in a secondary financing that makes the Montreal-based online travel company one of Canada’s largest private technology companies.

Brookfield’s growth equity arm has joined Toronto-based Stack Capital Group and U.S.-based Drive Capital to buy US$35 million of employee equity in a deal that values ​​the US$5 billion company, Hopper CEO Fred Lalonde said in an interview.

While Hopper himself did not issue any shares in the deal — which typically prompts investors to write down the value of their stakes — one of his existing backers, the venture capital firm of Boston Accomplice, whose partner Jeff Fagnan sits on its board, also bought the deal.

Fellow director Damien Steel, managing partner at OMERS Ventures, Hopper’s largest shareholder with a 10-15% stake, said in an interview that buyers are “paying absolutely fair market value” just six months after the announcement. by Hopper. its most recent formal financing at a valuation of US$3.5 billion. Mr. Steel said OMERS would not determine until the end of the quarter whether to increase the value of its stake.

Mr. Lalonde went so far as to say that US$5 billion “is not much” because the shares sold were common stock and not senior preferred stock that Hopper would issue in a financing. “The actual valuation if we did a preference round is probably much higher,” he said. “They get a deal.”

While it was rare for Canadian companies to reach valuations of US$1 billion – “unicorn” status – these entities proliferated last year as valuations of fast-growing, mature domestic startups soared. Hopper is now at least the fourth Canadian company since the start of 2021 to reach the much rarer $5 billion valuation level, joining 1Password, Wealthsimple Technologies Inc. and PointClickCare Technologies Inc.

Valuations of public tech companies have crashed this year, which some observers believe will spill over to private markets. But Mr. Lalonde said Hopper was unaffected because, while many technology providers who have profited from the pandemic have seen their valuations shredded, his business stands to benefit from its end.

He predicts a “super travel cycle” as restrictions lift and pent-up consumers travel with a vengeance. “Ask any hotel or airline CEO – people have a huge amount of money saved up and everyone is trying to travel once the restrictions are lifted,” he said.

Hopper is well positioned as it offers airline, hotel, vehicle and now short term home stay bookings. The company’s mobile platform, which targets millennials, was the most downloaded travel app in the United States last year.

It also leverages access to large datasets obtained from travel reservation systems such as Saber, applying AI to offer ancillary financial services products to travellers. Travelers can pay extra to freeze the price of a flight for multiple days, purchase the right to cancel for any reason for full credit, book a missed connection at no additional cost, or change a ticket to a different day without losing the total value of the ticket.

After figuring out before the pandemic how to price the deals, Hopper turned them into high-margin products that now make up nearly 40% of revenue, Lalonde said. The company is also partnering with consumer-facing giants to power their travel booking services, starting last year with Capital One Financial Corp., an investor in Hopper.

“Hopper’s total market opportunity has been multiplied by at least 10 times” thanks to its partnership strategy, Mr. Steel said. “That’s what got everyone excited.” Stack Capital CEO Jeff Parks told The Globe and Mail that his company invested US$6 million in the financing due to Hopper’s emergence as a leading travel booking company, its revenue diversification into financial services, its management team and its “long-term growth potential” as travel demand returns.

It’s a sharp turnaround for a 14-year-old company that treated the onset of the pandemic as an “extinction-level event.” But Hopper managed to raise US$70 million in capital in May 2020, led by WestCap Group – the private investment firm of ex-Airbnb CFO Laurence Tosi, Hopper’s director – and Inovia Capital. Revenues doubled in 2020 as travelers continued to book and subscribe to its financial products. In 2021, bookings surged and Hopper raised an additional $345 million in growth capital.

Although Mr Lalonde did not disclose his revenue, he said Hopper’s gross bookings had increased almost fivefold since before the pandemic and were expected to top US$2 billion this year and double in 2023, with the business taking 10 percent. hundred more cut.

Mr. Lalonde said he believes the nascent category of travel financial products created by Hopper could reach US$100 billion. He plans to take Hopper public once he has generated “several hundred million” dollars and has a better understanding of the growth potential of his fintech products.

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Hopper raises $100M more for its AI-based travel app, now valued at $780M

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Hopper  — a mobile-only travel booking app cofounded by a former Expedia executive in Montreal, Canada that uses artificial intelligence to help you search for and book hotels and flights — has gained a little elevation of its own today. The startup has raised another $100 million in funding, money that it plans to use to build out its AI algorithms and expand deeper into international markets. Hopper has now passed 30 million installs and 75 million trips planned, and says it’s on track to make nearly $1 billion in sales this year.

Sources very close to the company say Hopper’s valuation with this round is also flying: it’s now close to 1 billion Canadian dollars ($780 million in US dollars). As a point of comparison, Hopper was valued at US$300 million in its last round, in late 2016 , and it has raised C$184 million (US$235 million) to date. Throughout that time, it’s been a consistent presence in the top-10 travel apps in the US, according to stats from App Annie .

Frederic Lalonde, CEO and co-founder of Hopper, said in an interview that the company is not profitable at the moment because it reinvests all its returns in fuelling its growth.

This latest growth round, a Series D, was led by previous investor Omers, along with other repeat backers Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Accomplice, Brightspark Ventures, Investissement Québec, BDC Capital IT Venture Fund. Is also included a notable new investor, Citi Ventures.

There are a sea of travel apps in the market today that help people search for and book trips, from old standbys like Expedia/Travelocity and Booking.com, through to newer upstarts like Airbnb and smaller startups that have been snapped up by bigger players (such as Hipmunk , now owned by SAP/Concur, and Kayak , acquired by Booking.com/Priceline for $1.8 billion).

Hopper has carved out a distinct place for itself by building an AI framework that not only helps people find good deals, but also discover trips they may have not known that they specifically wanted to take.

AI is used to build profiles of users and their interests, which Hopper starts to build after someone downloads the app and opens it for the first time and starts to use it. From that, Hopper asks to send push notifications, and when users respond to those, this helps shape their profiles further.

“We’re able to capture our users’ intent in an unprecedented way in the industry because users start watching their trips four to five months in advance of departure,” said  Lalonde in an emailed interview (and pictured here with his cofounder Joost Ouwerkerk). “ During that period, we build a relationship through an ongoing conversation about their trip, which primarily takes place via push notifications. User intent is key to our ability to implement further algorithms based on AI.”

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Added to this are some classic AI methods: Hopper, Lalonde said, learns more about its users by building lookalike profiles of anonymised data of people who have similar preferences to you. “It’s similar to how Netflix will recommend a show to you based on what other viewers like you are watching,” he said. “What once was done by a human travel agent is now done through a machine that gets smarter each time an action is (or is not) taken.”

AI, as you probably know, is a term that is thrown around a lot today, but it has a very direct relationship to how Hopper has grown its business. Lalonde said that 25 percent of Hopper’s bookings are the result of AI — in other words, users are booking trips they didn’t explicitly search for but the app knew to suggest. “Conversion rates on AI-based recommendation notifications are 2.6 times higher than ones for which the users explicitly searched,” Lalonde added.

Hopper is designated an OTA — not a metasearch provider or aggregator — so the booking takes place right in the app, rather than passing you on to another site. This means that the company makes money via commissions on those bookings. Lalonde said that 52 percent of its airline bookings are for international, long-haul flights — which translates to more is being spent per booking than for domestic flights, and typically not last-minute bookings. “ We’re a very complimentary channel for airline and hotel partners given our users are shopping far in advance on mobile so we aren’t competing with their websites,” he said.

Going forward, Hopper will likely integrate more forms of travel that fit the profile of its user base. It has already started to do that with airlines, adding 47 low-cost carriers in Europe in the last year, which the company said has boost sales by 154 percent in the region compared to a year ago.

Still, Lalonde would not comment specifically on whether the company might ever try to add Airbnb or any other private-home platform to give people that option.

“Nearly 70% of Hopper bookers are Millennials so alternate accommodations is something we may be interested in exploring,” he said. “However, we’re currently entirely focused on scaling our hotel markets and supply since accommodations is still a very new category for us.” I think that this is something to watch, though: the more a company like Hopper intersects with a company like Airbnb in terms of user base and the kinds of services it provides, we might start to see them either work together more, or potentially see one gobble up the other in an ongoing consolidation effort. (I’ll also point out that Airbnb — which is valued now at over $31 billion and is on track for an IPO — is looking for more ways to connect to users beyond simply when they are looking for a place to stay.)

Nor, it seems, does Hopper have plans for ever expanding to old school web.

“Our core strengths are due to the fact that we’re mobile-only so we have no plans to offer a web product,” Lalonde said. Indeed, as laptop usage has declined, smartphones have only grown in their ubiquity. “As the world continues to shift from the web to mobile, and in-app in particular — estimates place online mobile minutes anywhere between 70-90 percent worldwide; 92 percent of all mobile time is spent in-app — we believe  Hopper  is in a unique position to become the go-to way to book travel,” he added.

Despite all that growth, we’re still in a relatively early and small stage of the market. Travel is currently a $1.3 trillion industry, online accounts for $662 billion of that, and mobile is a $264 billion part of it. For Hopper’s investors, they’re betting that the third of these will eventually be the dominant platform for the wider business, and that Hopper with the early groundwork that’s it’s laid has a shot at being a very big player within that.

“Mobile travel is growing 20 percent year over year. By continuing to innovate on mobile and ultimately change the way consumers plan and book travel, we believe Hopper has a tremendous opportunity globally,” said Damien Steel, Managing Partner at OMERS Ventures, in a statement. “We’re proud to continue supporting Hopper as the company further establishes itself as the leader in mobile travel booking.”

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Travel app Hopper has laid off nearly 250 employees, or 30 per cent of its workforce.

The announcement had “little impact” at the Montreal head office, said a company spokesperson. “The vast majority of employees were in the United States or international. More specifically, only 20 Montreal employees were affected.”

The news was first reported by the Globe and Mail . Layoffs were related to products and services in research and development.

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“We had a lot of projects that did not generate income,” app co-founder Frédéric Lalonde said in an interview with the Globe. “The world has changed, money (isn’t free) and we must move towards profitability. There is no magic recipe; we must burn less cash and achieve a balanced budget as quickly as possible.”

The business environment has deteriorated for technology startups. Many investors hadn’t hesitated to finance promising companies in the hope of profitability in the future, but with interest rates rising, they’re reluctant to put their money into companies that aren’t profitable.

The trend has affected several technology companies in Canada, particularly in Montreal.

In July, Montreal telemedicine specialist Dialogue accepted a purchase offer from insurer Sun Life. The co-founder and CEO of Dialogue, Cherif Habib, mentioned in an interview that the market made it difficult to obtain the financing necessary for its expansion projects.

“Going into other markets is something that takes a lot of capital, and in a public company environment where investors expected certain returns, it was difficult to make these investments.”

In February, Google Canada announced the elimination of around 20 positions at its Montreal office. In January, cloud commerce specialist Lightspeed announced the elimination of 300 positions to reduce its operating expenses by 10 per cent.

Despite the layoffs, Hopper continues to focus its “full attention” on establishing a direct hotel offering, the company said. It wants to become a “complete” travel platform with its app and direct partnerships with companies.

Last week, Lalonde said Hopper had raised “a lot of money” and was in “absolutely no rush” to take the company public during a presentation at the Skift Global Forum in New York. “It will happen eventually, but it’s not a priority this year.”

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Hopper lays off 250 employees, including about 20 in Montreal

Travel app Hopper has laid off nearly 250 employees, or 30 per cent of its workforce, as the technology sector continues to face challenges.

The announcement had "little impact" at the Montreal head office, said a company spokesperson, who said, "The vast majority of employees were in the United States or abroad. More specifically, only 20 Montreal employees were affected."

The news was first leaked to the Globe and Mail. The layoffs were related to products and services in research and development.

"We were running a lot of initiatives that were not revenue-generating. We've always done that," explained the app's CEO and co-founder, Frédéric Lalonde, in an interview with the Globe. "But the world has changed. Money is no longer free. And we need to move to profitability. There is no magical secret to why we're doing this. It's to cut our burn rate and arrive to break even as fast as possible."

The business environment has deteriorated for technology start-ups. Many investors did not hesitate to finance promising growth companies in the hope of future profitability. With rising interest rates, investors are more reluctant to put their assets into a company that is not profitable.

This trend has affected several technology companies in Canada, particularly in Montreal.

In July, Montreal-based telemedicine specialist Dialogue accepted a takeover offer from insurer Sun Life. Dialogue's co-founder and CEO, Cherif Habib, had mentioned in an interview that the market context made it difficult to obtain the necessary financing for its expansion plans: "Going into other markets is something that takes a lot of capital, and in a public company environment where investors expected certain returns, it was difficult to make these investments."

In February, Google Canada announced it was eliminating some 20 positions at its Montreal office. In January, cloud commerce specialist Lightspeed announced it was eliminating 300 positions to reduce its operating expenses by 10 per cent.

Despite the layoffs, Hopper continues to focus its "full attention" on building a direct hotel offering, the company said. It wants to become a "complete" travel platform with its app and direct business partnerships.

Last week, at a presentation at the Skift Global Forum in New York, Lalonde said that Hopper had raised "a lot of money" and that he was "absolutely in no hurry" to take his company public. "It will happen eventually, but it's not a priority this year."

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Nearby Snowdon is home to the Federation CJA, whose premises include the Montreal Holocaust Museum.

On Monday night, the centre was the site of “Israeli Perspective: Coming to Life,” a public talk by three reservists with the Israel Defense Forces. Organized by DiploAct — a pro-Israel outreach group — the talk included Aby Volcovich, a 26-year-old Mexican-Canadian who joined the IDF as a lone soldier.

As documented in a series of social media call-outs, this event was explicitly targeted by anti-Israel demonstrators who sought to blockade entrances to the site and force the talk’s cancellation.

“Child killers not welcome in Montreal, join us to shut it down,” read one Instagram post that made the rounds of Montreal’s anti-Israel community.

The action was organized by the Concordia University chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights.

This is the same group whose immediate response to the Oct. 7 massacre was a statement explicitly endorsing the Hamas-led attack, and framing the murder of 1,200 civilians as the expression of “an unfaltering desire for liberation.”

“We hold the Israeli regime fully responsible for the escalating violence,” read a statement from the group’s McGill University chapter.

SPHR Concordia had already been successful in pressuring Concordia University to cancel a planned on-campus talk by the IDF reservists. Over the weekend, the group declared “victory” in forcing Concordia to “shut down the genocidal Zionist event.”

On Monday, SPHR Concordia knew full well they were marshalling demonstrators to blockade a Jewish community centre, but they chalked up the choice of venue to Jewish perfidy.

“The Genocidal Zionist Army’s event has been set to happen in the vicinity of a Holocaust museum,” reads a message sent out to blockaders on Monday. It added, “we will not fall for your traps,” and accused organizers of “a new low, even for the Zionist entity.”

In a lengthy statement, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs — a co-sponsor of the event — criticized the Montreal police for allowing demonstrators to swarm the building’s entrances and exits without opposition.

“SPVM’s public order unit was not able to maintain buffer zones and failed to ensure access to all entrances and exits,” it read, noting that, “members of our community could not access an event and others were prevented from leaving for hours.”

The incident also attracted special attention from former Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, who has become a particularly outspoken critic of the seeming unwillingness of Canadian law enforcement to oppose anti-Israel demonstrations.

“This isn’t lawful protest. It’s targeted coercion, fueled by antisemitism. It’s against the law,” he said.

As with many anti-Israel actions in Quebec, the Monday blockade was also promoted in part by Montreal4Palestine, a group that has frequently gone on record calling for Israel’s violent destruction. The Hamas-led Oct. 7 massacres were still underway in Israel when Montreal4Palestine responded with celebratory rallies and the distribution of candy.

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Earlier this year, a freeway overpass adjacent to Toronto’s most Jewish neighbourhood was blockaded for more than two weeks by anti-Israel demonstrators who had referred to the neighbourhood as a “Zionist Infested Area.”

And just last week, a targeted blockade on the campus of McGill University successfully forced the cancellation of classes within the Bronfman Building, a structure seemingly targeted for no other reason than it bears the name of Jewish philanthropist Samuel Bronfman.

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CF Montreal forward Matias Coccaro prepares for a free kick during the first half of an MLS soccer match against FC Dallas, on March 2, 2024, in Frisco, Texas. LM Otero/The Associated Press

CF Montreal’s impressive start to the 2024 season will be put to the test as they travel to Florida on Sunday to take on Lionel Messi and top-ranked Inter Miami.

Since joining MLS as an expansion team in 2020, Miami has had difficulty finding its place in the league, making the playoffs only once.

However, the arrival of Messi and fellow former FC Barcelona stars Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba during last summer’s international transfer window resulted in Miami winning the inaugural Leagues Cup and reaching the final of the U.S. Open Cup within months of the players joining the team.

Miami further bolstered its lineup in the off-season by adding a fourth Barcelona teammate, European Golden Shoe winner Luis Suarez.

“They’re some of the best players in the world, so we have to work as a collective and minimize the space of play where they can be dangerous,” said Montreal coach Laurent Courtois, whose team opened the MLS season with a 0-0 tie in Orlando followed by last week’s 2-1 win in Dallas.

“We also have to find a way to play our game, we have nothing to lose. We’re playing the biggest team in the league and I just want the guys to approach the game with a mix of enjoyment and focus, we have to remain humble in front of this opposition.”

Defence has been the key to Montreal’s impressive start. Courtois has deployed a back-five with two high-tempo central midfielders who can cover lots of ground to win the ball back.

“We have a great defensive shape, we stay really compact and our block is well built, it’s one of the things we’re doing best right now,” said captain Samuel Piette. “There’s a real group effort dedicated to allowing as few scoring chances as possible, let alone goals.

Not much has been seen in regards to the high-octane, possession-based play that most would have come to expect from a Courtois team. However, with the first six games away from home, we’re starting to see bite-sized moments of what that might look like.

After last season’s disastrous 2-13-2 road record, Montreal looks like a team renewed in both confidence and energy with new players Ruan, Matias Coccaro and others blending seamlessly into the group.

What seemed like a timid submission to home teams just a year ago has now turned into an insatiable defiance, pressing the opposition high up the pitch, and daring them to play out from the back.

“If you look at the way we started the game against Orlando, one of the best teams in the East, we have a belief that this can be done against anybody,” said Courtois. “We have to remain humble in our execution, but our intentions have to be to win everything.”

With a very congested few weeks due to the CONCACAF Champions Cup, Miami may look to rotate its squad against Montreal with the second leg of their round of 16 tie with Nashville SC scheduled for Wednesday.

Meanwhile, striker Josef Martinez could get his first start in a Montreal jersey against his former club due to injury concerns with Coccaro, Mahala Opoku, and Dominic Iankov. The former MLS MVP and surprise off-season acquisition came off the bench to score the winner against FC Dallas last week.

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