Private company

Kiwi.com

Logo: Kiwi.com, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

European online travel agency

Kiwi.com is an international online travel agency headquartered in the Czech Republic. Kiwi.com provides booking for airline tickets and its ticket search features virtual interlining, an innovation that combines airlines in a single itinerary.2 It was founded by Jiří Hlavenka, Oliver Dlouhý and Jozef Képesi.1 It employed 877 people in 2021.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2012Founded1
  • IndustryInternet industry, tourism1
  • HeadquartersPrague1
  • Founded inBrno1
  • Websitewww.kiwi.com
  • Legal formspolečnost s ručením omezeným1
  • LEI315700O79GO7SWNTPY273
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressRohanské nábřeží 678/25, 186 00 Praha, Czechia3
  • Registered withMinistry of Justice, 293528863

Kiwi.com is an international online travel agency headquartered in the Czech Republic. Kiwi.com provides booking for airline tickets and its ticket search features virtual interlining, an innovation that combines airlines in a single itinerary.2

The story

Founded by Jiří Hlavenka, Jozef Képesi and Oliver Dlouhý in 2012, in Brno.1

Leadership

Who has led Kiwi.com, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

  • General Atlantic KW 53.5% since 2019
  • Oliver Dlouhý 22.4% since 2019
  • Jozef Képesi 12.5% since 2019
  • Touzimsky Airlines 10% since 2019
  • Luboš Charčenko 1.4% since 2019

Former owners and parents

  • Oliver Dlouhý 24.5% 2017 to 2019
  • Touzimsky Airlines 21.6% 2015 to 2019
  • Jiří Hlavenka 20.2% until 2019
  • Jozef Képesi 13.4% 2017 to 2019
  • Ondřej Tomek 10% until 2017
  • Impulse Capital 10% 2017 to 2019
  • Sugilit Invest 8.5% 2017 to 2019
  • Luboš Charčenko 0.9% 2015 to 2019
  • Lucie Brešová 0.9% 2015 to 2019

From Wikidata.1

Employees over time

Kiwi.com employees by year1877 in 2021+473% since 2015
05001.0K1.5K2015: 15315320152016: 6706702016+338%2017: 8488482017+27%2018: 8798792018+4%2019: 1.1K1.1K2019+19%2020: 9629622020−8%2021: 8778772021−9%
  • 20218771
  • 20209621
  • 20191,0501
  • 20188791
  • 20178481
  • 20166701
  • 20151531

Timeline

  1. 2016Renamed Name changed to Kiwi.com s.r.o.1
  2. 2012Founded Founded in Brno1

Sources

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