Mapify founders give up
Tom Schmidtgen | 01.02.2021The corona pandemic brings the young company to its knees. The travel start-up is better off with an experienced partner, the founders write.
Travel startup Mapify will no longer exist. Co-founder Patrick Haede made the announcement in a post on LinkedIn. He said the Corona pandemic is bringing the Berlin-based startup to its knees. "We have come to the conclusion not to continue on our current path," CEO Häde wrote in the post. "At the end of last year, we came to the conclusion that Mapify would be better off with a more experienced partner from the travel industry." For now, he left open how to proceed. The startup will provide further information on further steps, he said.
Haede thanks all supporters for their time together. "Without all of you, Mapify would just be a travel company. You've turned it into a community whose friendships have endured even as travel has ground to a halt."
Mapify was founded in 2016 by brothers Patrick and Sebastian Häde and Magnus Langanke. The startup offered a platform where users could get excited about travel countries by taking photos. The app then helped with travel planning, linking Airbnb and Skyscanner on the platform, for example. Users could also book travel packages directly. At last count, Mapify had more than 250,000 members.
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