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Posted by Dominika Czajak on 1st October 2019

• Spacebase, the global booking platform for meeting and event spaces, has acquired Okanda, Germany’s leading online portal for hotel meeting rooms.

Founded in 2014, Okanda has a portfolio of over 1600 locations, including major hotel chains like Radisson, Hilton, Sheraton and Hyatt. Okanda’s online reservation system simplifies the process of viewing and booking spaces for users, and allows venues to boost occupancy rates. Its revenue model is a mix of commission and subscription.

“Okanda quickly took the lead of the market for hotel meeting rooms with instant booking, which allowed it to achieve rapid growth” says Spacebase CEO Julian Jost. “Over the last two years, the technological and commercial restructuring undertaken by Ingmar Bornholz have made Okanda into an even more successful business. We’re excited to keep building on this as we bring Okanda into the Spacebase family.”

“With Spacebase we have found the ideal home for Okanda – we share the same drive, values and potential to further revolutionise the events and meetings market,” said Ingmar Bornholz, investor and interim CEO of Okanda. “I am pleased and grateful that Okanda’s success story will continue – I wish our team and the Spacebase team every success.”

The move marks the next step in Spacebase’s second acquisition series. In April this year, Spacebase purchased event location specialist, eventsofa. Spacebase now owns and operates four distinct brands, covering all segments in the market for small- and large-scale meeting and event spaces: Spacebase, Craftspace, eventsofa and Okanda.

“The Okanda acquisition helps us to achieve full B2B market coverage,” said Jost. “We’re excited to be the number one corporate meeting marketplace in Germany and the only one to offer instant booking functionality across our platform.”