Press Kit

Press Kit

About Kiwi.com

Kiwi.com is a leading global travel tech company headquartered in the Czech Republic, employing over 1,200 people worldwide.

100 million searches are carried out every day on Kiwi.com’s website and on average over 70,000 seats are sold daily.

Kiwi.com’s innovative algorithm enables users to find better route options and prices other search engines can’t see, performing billions of price checks per day across 95% of global flight content.

Kiwi.com in numbers

Billions

of Daily price checks

17M

Monthly unique visitors

10K

Daily app downloads

95%

Of total global flight content

100M

Daily searches

60K

Seats sold per day

Milestone moments

 
 
2012

Skypicker is formally registered

The first Virtually Interlined flight is sold: Budapest-Madrid-Lisbon

 
 
2015

Kiwi.com rate of growth doubles

 
 
2016

Skypicker rebrands to Kiwi.com

 
 
2017

Kiwi.com and Amadeus create the largest local flights database in the world

Ground transport content is added to the Kiwi.com search function

 
 
2018

The first overseas office is opened in Barcelona

B2B Platform, TEQUILA, is launched enabling partners to offer Kiwi.com content

 
 
2019

General Atlantic invests in Kiwi.com

 
 
2020

COVID-19 grounds all flights

 
 
2021

Travel recovery begins following a year of industry crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic

 
 
2022

Kiwi.com hits an all time record of bookings processed and customers served

Kiwi.com receives investment of €100m as company’s growth accelerates

Our founders

 

 

Oliver Dlouhý

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Oliver Dlouhý is the CEO and Co-founder of leading travel-tech company, Kiwi.com, headquartered in the Czech Republic. In 2012 Oliver had the bright idea to create a unique Virtual Interlining algorithm that enables users to find better route options and prices other search engines can’t see. Dlouhý was named as one of Forbes’ European “30 Under 30″ in 2018, became the Person of the Year by the Czech Awards “Křišťálová Lupa” in 2019, and was also awarded the EY “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2019.

 

 

 

Jozef Képesi

Co-founder and Chief Architect

Jozef Képesi (JK) is responsible for the technological success of the company having created the first functional version of Kiwi.com as well as contributing to the unique algorithm that enables customers to find better route options and prices other search engines can’t see. As Chief Architect he acts as a subject matter expert, working and advising on Kiwi.com tech vision as well as the overarching software architecture.

 

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