Håvar Bauck
Norwegian-born entrepreneur
Håvar Bauck is a Norwegian-born entrepreneur, living in Nairobi, Kenya.2
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Companies
- HotelOnlineChair 2014 to now31
- Faster AfricaFounder32
- HotelOnlineBoard member31
- HotelOnlineFounder 201431
Early life and education
- 1990 to 1993French Lycée in Brussels3
- 1993 to 1996Lycée français René Cassin d'Oslo baccalauréat; economics3 4
- 1997 to 2002BI Norwegian Business School Master of Business; technology management3 5
- Date not recordedScandinavian School of Brussels3
Bauck grew up in Norway and Belgium. After graduating from high school at Lycee Francais Rene Cassin d'Oslo, he attended BI Norwegian Business School, where he completed a Master's degree in 2002.
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Career
Occupation: entrepreneur, orator, investor, consultant, founder.4 19
- 2019 to 2020Chairperson, Cloud9xp6 12
- Since 2014Founder, HotelOnline6 11
- Since 2014Chairperson, HotelOnline17 18
- 2011 to 2015Worked at Upstream6
- 2010 to 2011Worked at Kyoto Energy6 10
- 2007 to 2010Worked at Vyke6 9
- 2006 to 2007Worked at IPdrum6 8
- 2002 to 2003Worked at Norec6 7
- Date not recordedFounded Nairobi Airport Hotel13
- Date not recordedFounded HotelOnline14
- Date not recordedFounded Faster Africa15
- Date not recordedBoard member, HotelOnline16
Bauck is one of the two founders of HotelOnline, a Nairobi-based, pan-African travel technology company that he co-founded with Endre Opdal in 2013. Before HotelOnline, Bauck was noted for his earlier venture, Nairobi Airport Hotel, the first known short-term apartment rental services in East Africa, and Savanna Sunrise, an early digital marketing service provider in East Africa. He later combined Savanna Sunrise with a Polish competitor to form HotelOnline in a cross-border merger in 2017.
In 2017, Bauck completed the what is thought to have been the first equity crowdfunding in Sub-Saharan Africa, raising USD 250,000 for HotelOnline. In 2019, he facilitated the merger between Kenyan traveltech startup Cloud9XP and tour operator Heartbeat Adventures, and was appointed the chairman of the merged company. In 2020, he merged Cloud9XP with HotelOnline.
In 2020 and 2021, Bauck was noted for acquiring several competitors during the COVID-19 pandemic and for the acquisition of Kenyan competitor HotelPlus in 2022, while raising an investment round from Korean travel technology unicorn and Softbank portfolio investee Yanolja in the same year.
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataHåvar Bauck on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaHåvar Bauck on Wikipedia
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- 7WikidataWorked at Norec, as reported
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- 24WikidataHåvar Bauck: X, on Wikidata
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- 27WikidataHåvar Bauck: TikTok, on Wikidata
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- 31WikidataHotelOnline, Chair
- 32WikidataFaster Africa, Founder
- 33Wikimedia CommonsHåvar Bauck photo by Håvar Bauck, CC BY 4.0