Blink Booking joins the last-minute hotel booking party in Europe
Skift Take
Blink made a name for itself in the UK earlier this summer with a list of insane hotel breakfast prices. But with a presence in 70 cities across Europe, Blink is ahead of U.S. imports and clearly has more going for it than survey of good fry ups.
Blink Booking is a startup based around a mobile application for last-minute hotel bookings in Europe.
While the market is believed to be worth 10 billion Euros annually, there is already stiff competition for a slice of the commission including JustBook and Hotel Tonight which recently launched its European play... Blink has already amassed a team of 30 based in London and Madrid and received a venture capital injection of $2.5 million from PROFounders and SoftTech VC as well as a number of angels.
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