Lightning Pitch: hopOn – Simple and social travel booking

COMPANY: hopOn

ELEVATOR PITCH

The simple and social way to book travel.

PRODUCT/SERVICE DESCRIPTION

Book flights from 400-plus airlines, choose from 170,000-plus hotels, and share travel expenses in a few clicks—hopOn makes discovering, planning, and booking travel simple, whether you’re traveling alone or with people, for vacation or a work trip.

Create a triplist…

Triplists are sharable itineraries—with flights, hotels, shared expenses, and more.

Invite friends/colleagues…

Friends get their own copy of your trip list and can fly from a new city, change dates, etc.

…and book in a click.

Everyone can book their flight, hotel and/or pay for shared expenses in a few clicks.

We believe our next-generation approach to the travel booking site will dramatically raise the bar on what people expect out of a travel booking site. For example, in addition to standard features like booking flights and hotels, we have brand new groundbreaking features like easily sharing a trip with a friend or colleague, who can book the flights, hotels, and pay you their share of a group expense in a few clicks. Our users can copy a whole trip a friend took just by picking a new start date and new departing airport.

FOUNDERS

Jade Van Doren, CEO – Was previously CEO of TechForward, creators of the first Guaranteed Buyback Plans for consumer electronics, which have been sold by Best Buy, Dell, Office Depot, and RadioShack, among others. The company was funded by New Enterprise Associates and First Round Capital, and was acquired by SquareTrade in March, 2012.

Doug Morgan, CTO – Most recently ran the mobile team at SurveyMonkey, after working at Google and Adobe.