Kiwi.com is a Czech flight booking and travel accommodation site that was founded in 2012 by Oliver Dlouhy and Josef Kepesi. Before Kiwi, though, this pair of entrepreneurs created an online portal, Sky Picker, in 2011. In fact, it wasn’t until 2016 that the company purchased the domain name for Kiwi.com for $800,000. This led them to undergo a universal rebrand as Kiwi.com (which is precisely what I would do, too, if I spent $800,000 on a domain name). In 2017, Kiwi.com bought stake in Jaroslav Kokolus. And, as of 2019, the company’s major shareholder is the American growth equity firm, General Atlantic. Kiwi’s original founders, though, Dlouhy and Kepesi remain major shareholders to this day, and they continue to run the company. Other shareholders include Touzimsky Airlines and Lubos Charcenko, making Kiwi.com’s board of directors a rather diverse one. Over the years, Kiwi.com has grown into one of the largest and most popular airfare metasearch engines on the web. Today, the site handles over 100 million daily searches, selling roughly 33,000 flights per day. The company employs more than 2,600 people (as of 2019), and made a rather ambitious announcement in November of 2019, saying that it plans to become the world’s first Virtual Global Supercarrier. This is just a fancy way of saying that Kiwi plans to basically become the Amazon of global transport – for air, land, and sea – providing the widest selection of on-demand transport of any company in the world. So, if you’ve never heard of Kiwi.com before today, there is a good chance (should they succeed in this goal) that they will be a household name in the next 5 years or so.