Alors que les Am\u00e9ricains retrouvent leur app\u00e9tit pour les vacances, la start-up montr\u00e9alaise de voyages Hopper Inc. a lev\u00e9 un investissement de 175 millions de dollars am\u00e9ricains qui servira \u00e0 \u00e9largir son \u00e9quipe et ses services fintech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Le financement, qui valorise la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e0 3,5 milliards de dollars am\u00e9ricains, a \u00e9t\u00e9 men\u00e9 par GPI Capital, avec la participation de Glade Brook Capital, WestCap, Goldman Sachs Growth et Accomplice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hopper suit les devis d’h\u00f4tels et de billets d’avion et utilise l’intelligence artificielle pour pr\u00e9dire si les utilisateurs doivent r\u00e9server un voyage ou une chambre maintenant, ou attendre que le prix baisse. Elle est pass\u00e9e d’une agence de voyage \u00e0 un acteur de la fintech qui vend des assurances annulation aux voyageurs, et leur permet, contre r\u00e9mun\u00e9ration, de geler le prix d’un vol pendant plusieurs jours. Le cofondateur et chef de la direction de Hopper, Fred Lalonde, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 au Globe and Mail que 70 pour cent des revenus de l’entreprise provenaient des services fintech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Ce qui motive tous les r\u00e9sultats que nous voyons maintenant, c’est la fintech [pivot] que nous avons lanc\u00e9e avant la pand\u00e9mie, puis sur laquelle nous nous sommes concentr\u00e9s en 2020.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L’entreprise d\u00e9veloppe \u00e9galement son activit\u00e9 Hopper Cloud, un produit en marque blanche qui permet \u00e0 d’autres entreprises, y compris des concurrents, d’acc\u00e9der \u00e0 ses services fintech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“La demande est compl\u00e8tement folle”, a-t-il d\u00e9clar\u00e9. “Nous avons essentiellement des accords sign\u00e9s sur tous les continents sauf l’Antarctique en ce moment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BuildDirect.com sera cot\u00e9 \u00e0 la Bourse de croissance TSX, quatre ans apr\u00e8s avoir d\u00e9pos\u00e9 une demande de protection contre les cr\u00e9anciers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ECN Capital de Steven Hudson vendra son activit\u00e9 de financement de r\u00e9novation domiciliaire pour 2 milliards de dollars US<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Le financement est un signe d’optimisme de la part des investisseurs quant \u00e0 la reprise de l’industrie du voyage. Lorsque la pand\u00e9mie a transform\u00e9 les a\u00e9roports en villes fant\u00f4mes et que les voyages ont \u00e9t\u00e9 interrompus, Hopper a licenci\u00e9 ou mis en cong\u00e9 la moiti\u00e9 de son personnel et a \u00e9t\u00e9 inond\u00e9 de plaintes de clients. En mars, M. Lalonde a qualifi\u00e9 le sc\u00e9nario d’\u00ab apocalypse de zombies \u00bb. Il a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que cela s’\u00e9tait depuis transform\u00e9 en ce qu’il appelle un “supercycle du voyage” aux \u00c9tats-Unis, entra\u00een\u00e9 par la demande refoul\u00e9e de vacances et la croissance des comptes d’\u00e9pargne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Malgr\u00e9 la variante Delta du coronavirus \u2013 qui est plus transmissible et entra\u00eene des cas plus graves de COVID-19 que les versions pr\u00e9c\u00e9dentes \u2013 M. Lalonde a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que l’entreprise avait connu mardi la meilleure journ\u00e9e de vente de son histoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ab L’\u00e9lan est l\u00e0 parce que les consommateurs sont de retour \u00bb, a-t-il d\u00e9clar\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En mars, Hopper a lev\u00e9 170 millions de dollars US lors d’un tour de table men\u00e9 par Capital One Financial Corp., et la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tait \u00e9valu\u00e9e \u00e0 2 milliards de dollars US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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L’agence de voyages montr\u00e9alaise Hopper obtient un financement de 175 millions de dollars alors qu’elle entre dans un \u00ab\u00a0supercycle du voyage\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/blockquote>