Successful Startup Offers Free Whitelabeled App Expands in North America
TrekkSoft offers a software as a Service solution (SaaS) allowing tour & activity providers to promote, manage and sell their tours online, offline and on mobile. To take advantage of the booming tours & activity markets in North America, TrekkSoft launched their Sales & Markeing office in New York just over one year ago and will expand the New York staffing to focus on high volume destinations for US and European consumers such as the Caribbean, Mexico and South Florida.
TrekkSoft offers a comprehensive solution to the activity segment of the travel industry allowing tour operators to list their entire live inventory together with an integrated payment gateway that facilitates a direct booking process from start to finish. TrekkSoft currently hosts a live inventory of over 3000 trips supplied by more than 200 companies worldwide and has processed 600,000 bookings during their initial aggressive growth phase.
Participating in the financing round are, Redalpine Capital II, the Innovation Fund of the Schwyzer Kantonalbank and a group of independent investors with proven industry and market experience. Private investors include among others Armin Meier, former CEO of Kuoni, Walter Güntensperger, CEO of Active Travel and former CEO of Hotelplan Switzerland, and Adrian Locher, founder and COO of DeinDeal.ch. The TrekkSoft Board of Directors is newly restructured to include Jonathan Fauver (cofounder, CEO), Adrian Locher, Markus Oswald (Innovation Fund of the Schwyzer Kantonalbank) and Philippe Willi (cofounder, COO / CFO).
Market expansion in Europe, North and South America
Capital will be used for further Market Development. "After a successful first step in scaling the sales and revenue model on two continents it is now necessary to intensify the efforts to achieve market saturation, “says Jon Fauver, CEO. TrekkSoft focuses on providing the tools and instruments for providers to process online bookings and peripherally on building marketplaces for new customer acquisition. TrekkSoft has the competitive advantage of providing the providers real time bookings of live inventory on a massive scale. “The fact that we can access live capacity and availability from all of our suppliers at anytime and from anywhere in the world allows TrekkSoft to make current market trends available to small and midsized suppliers. For instance, TrekkSoft is the first booking solution in the tour and activity market to offer a free white labeled app that allows each operator regardless of size to take advantage of the rapidly growing trend of mobile bookings without a heavy upfront investment,” says Jon Fauver.