UK company record
Secret Escapes
Members-only flash-sales marketplace for discounted luxury hotel stays and travel experiences
VerifiedCore UK
Snapshot
- UK location
- London · London
- Sector
- Consumer / marketplace
- Latest recorded round
- Growth equity / recapitalization (third-party aggregators label this 'Series E2')
- Latest recorded amount
- £32M
- Date
- 2023-07-01
Legal-identity layer
Verified identity.
- Selected legal name
- SECRET ESCAPES LIMITED
- Company number
- 07026107
- Companies House status
- active
- Incorporated
- 2009-09-22
Investors
- Octopus VenturesLead
- Accomplice (Atlas Venture), angel investors including William Reeve, Alex Chesterman, Laurel BowdenParticipant
- Index VenturesLead
- Octopus Ventures, Atlas VentureParticipant
- Google Ventures (GV)Lead
- Octopus Ventures, Index Ventures, AccompliceParticipant
- TemasekLead
- Idinvest Partners (existing investor, via Growth Fund II), Silicon Valley Bank (debt facility)Participant
- Old Mutual Global Investors (subsequently rebranded Merian Global Investors)Lead
- existing shareholders (not individually itemized in sources found)Participant
- syndicate of existing shareholdersLead
- Merian Global Investors, Temasek, and approximately 25 other existing shareholdersParticipant
- syndicate of existing shareholders and lendersLead
- Chrysalis Investments (>£6.5M), Jupiter Asset Management, Seligman Private Equity Select, SquareOne Venture Capital, Stride.VCParticipant
Current directors and active controllers
- FAWCETT, WilliamCurrent director
- SAINT, Stafford Alexander Anthony TalbotCurrent director
- Secret Escapes Holding LimitedActive controller
- BALLINGER, Taradirector
- BOTHA, Andrew Jamesdirector
- BREDON, Andrew Mossdirector
- COLE, Alliott Daviddirector
- COLLINS, Troy Danieldirector
- DAVIES, Dunstana Adesholadirector
- FLOCH, Sebastiendirector
- GULTEKIN, Nezahatdirector
- HOLMES, Benjamin John Biederdirector
- HULME, Thomas Williamdirector
- KORNHOFF-BRULS, Nathaliedirector
- LAFFY, Laurent Pierre Marie Raoul Edmonddirector
- MEIER, Nicolasdirector
- Mr Stafford Alexander Anthony Talbot SaintFormer controller
- Mr Thomas Joseph ValentineFormer controller
- OHS SECRETARIES LIMITEDcorporate-secretary
- RAMOS DE FREITAS JUNIOR, Heberdirector
- REEVE, Williamdirector
- RIVE, Kurtdirector
- SAINT, Stafford Alexander Anthony Talbotdirector
- SWANN, Kathryn Elizabethdirector
- VALENTINE, Thomas Josephdirector
- WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITEDcorporate-secretary
- WYNIECKI, Albandirector
Funding rows
- Series Aundisclosed · 2011-01-01
- Series B£8M (~$12.8M) · 2012-10-15
- Series C$60M · 2015-07-26
- Series D$111M (equity plus a Silicon Valley Bank debt facility; exact equity/debt split not disclosed) · 2017-10-04
- Series E£52M (~$68M) · 2018-07-19
- Growth / Series E extension$74M (£55M) · 2020-05-27
- Growth equity / recapitalization (third-party aggregators label this 'Series E2')£32M · 2023-07-01
Sources
- https://www.legislate.tech/learn/did-octupus-ventures-invest-in-secret-escapes
- https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/secret-escapes-series-a--0da4a78a
- https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/15/luxury-travel-online-members-club-secret-escapes-raises-8-million-led-by-index-ventures-plans-for-international-launch/
- https://www.phocuswire.com/Secret-Escapes-secures-8-million-plots-international-expansion
- https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/26/google-ventures-joins-60m-round-for-members-only-travel-site-secret-escapes/
- https://skift.com/2015/07/26/google-ventures-leads-60-million-round-for-secret-escapes/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/24/secret-escapes-just-got-a-60m-funding-round-led-by-google.html
- https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/secret-escapes-raises-111m-investment-to-drive-global-acquisitions/
- https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/05/secret-funding/
- https://www.finsmes.com/2017/10/secret-escapes-raises-111m-in-series-d-funding.html
- https://www.traveldailynews.com/post/secret-escapes-welcomes-52m-investment-from-old-mutual-global-investors
- https://www.secretescapes.group/2018/07/17/secret-escapes-welcomes-investment-from-merian-global-investors/
- https://www.uktech.news/news/investment-news/online-luxury-travel-marketplace-secret-escapes-secures-52m-20180719
- https://skift.com/2022/02/15/secret-escapes-survived-pandemic-thanks-to-74-million-fundraising/
- https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/secret-escapes-group-recovers-to-operating-profit
- https://onlinehoteldistribution.com/secret-escapes-bolsters-growth-with-gbp-31-million-investment-infusion/
- https://www.legislate.tech/learn/did-octupus-ventures-invest-in-secret-escapes
- https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/secret-escapes-series-a--0da4a78a
- https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/15/luxury-travel-online-members-club-secret-escapes-raises-8-million-led-by-index-ventures-plans-for-international-launch/
- https://www.phocuswire.com/Secret-Escapes-secures-8-million-plots-international-expansion
- https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/26/google-ventures-joins-60m-round-for-members-only-travel-site-secret-escapes/
- https://skift.com/2015/07/26/google-ventures-leads-60-million-round-for-secret-escapes/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/24/secret-escapes-just-got-a-60m-funding-round-led-by-google.html
- https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/secret-escapes-raises-111m-investment-to-drive-global-acquisitions/
- https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/05/secret-funding/
- https://www.finsmes.com/2017/10/secret-escapes-raises-111m-in-series-d-funding.html
- https://www.traveldailynews.com/post/secret-escapes-welcomes-52m-investment-from-old-mutual-global-investors
- https://www.secretescapes.group/2018/07/17/secret-escapes-welcomes-investment-from-merian-global-investors/
- https://www.uktech.news/news/investment-news/online-luxury-travel-marketplace-secret-escapes-secures-52m-20180719
- https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/secret-escapes-group-recovers-to-operating-profit
- https://onlinehoteldistribution.com/secret-escapes-bolsters-growth-with-gbp-31-million-investment-infusion/