Mobissimo is a travel search engine website based in San Francisco, California. It allows consumers to compare prices on flights, hotels, and car rentals. It aggregates the results from over 180 online travel agencies, consolidators, and ticket vendors to show a side-by-side comparison of the best deals found on the web. It then redirects the visitor to the site with the best rates. Mobissimo makes it money through advertisements so it circumvents the need to mark up its quoted prices to earn a profit. Mobissimo responds to customer inquires on a day-by-day basis to help the site perform optimally.

History

The site was founded in 2004 with one million USD of seed financing from Benhamou Global Ventures, Cambrian Ventures and Index Ventures

Index Ventures

Index Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Geneva, Switzerland, with offices in London, Jersey, and starting in 2011, Silcon Valley. The firm was founded in 1996 by Neil Rimer and Giuseppe Zocco. Since its inception, the firm has raised four main venture funds and a growth...

. It has recently been rated the third most popular travel meta-search engine in the United States.

Media

Mobissimo has recently garnered attention in the media for its low fares and groundbreaking approach to travel booking. In the past year it has been written about in several print and Internet news publications. The Chicago Tribune quoted it as one of the “3 Leading Search Engines” for travel. It was also said to “out execute” their main competitor, Kayak

Kayak

A kayak is a small, relatively narrow, human-powered boat primarily designed to be manually propelled by means of a double blade paddle.The traditional kayak has a covered deck and one or more cockpits, each seating one paddler...

, by TechCrunch

TechCrunch

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. Google also "expressed interest in Mobissimo and their innovative price comparison models.

See also

• Skyscanner
  Skyscanner
  Skyscanner is a flight search engine that allows users to browse for flights via price and location. Additional tools such as fare graphs, allow users to compare flight prices of any given route over a month period, or the price of weekend flights from any given city.The site is multilingual,...
  
  
• Dohop
  Dohop
  Dohop is a travel search engine website based in Reykjavík, Iceland originally founded to aggregate and link low cost flight connections. In 2005 dohop launched the world's first flight planner for low-cost airlines and later expanded it to include all scheduled flights worldwide, amounting to 660...
  
  
• Travelocity
  Travelocity
  Travelocity is an online travel agency and wholly owned subsidiary of Sabre Holdings Corporation, which was a publicly traded company until taken private by Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group in March 2007...
  
  
• Orbitz
  Orbitz
  Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. is an Internet travel company headquartered in the Citigroup Center in Near West Side, Chicago, Illinois. Through its primary web site Orbitz.com, Orbitz Worldwide enables travelers to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products, facilitating 1.5 million flight...
  
  
• CheapOair
  CheapOair
  CheapOair is an online travel company established in September 2005. The company has created a branded budget travel site for US and Canadian travelers. This site offers airfares on all major and smaller airlines in North America, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Pacific, Indian...
  
  
• Kayak.com
  Kayak.com
  KAYAK is a technology company providing online travel tools through its global family of websites and mobile applications. Started by cofounders of Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity, KAYAK allows users to compare information from hundreds of other travel websites in one display when booking travel...
  
  

External links

• Mobissimo official website
• Cambrian Ventures official site
• Index Ventures official site
• Benhamou Global Venture official site
• TechCrunch's Review of Mobissimo
• One Stop Shopping for That Dream Vacation New York Times
• This Travel Search Site Could Go Far BusinessWeek
  BusinessWeek
  Bloomberg Businessweek, commonly and formerly known as BusinessWeek, is a weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. It is currently headquartered in New York City.- History :...
  
  
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