Hospitality remembers its guests.

Hotels, restaurants, and travel companies go to extraordinary lengths to recognise the people they serve.

Loyalty programmes. Yums. Points. Miles. Status. Preferences. Previous stays. Room preferences. Recognition when you return.

A guest checks out, but the relationship does not end.

We know you. We remember you. Come back.

But who remembers the people who make hospitality happen?

People spend years of their lives in hospitality.

They work together. Train one another. Open hotels together. Interview one another. Hire one another. Move to another company. Take a more senior job. Move country. Leave. Come back.

Someone you trained for two years may leave to take a more senior job at the hotel across the street.

That is the industry working.

The problem is not that they moved.

The problem is how much disappears when they do.

An employee leaves and becomes a record in an HR system. A candidate becomes an old application. Conversations remain in somebody’s inbox or phone. Managers move on and take relationships with them.

The person remembers the hotel.
The person remembers the people.
The person remembers the interview, the opening, the team, the years they spent there.

The industry often does not remember the person.

People try to keep those relationships alive themselves.

Former hotel employees organise alumni dinners and Stammtische years after they have left. Old colleagues create WhatsApp groups, exchange numbers, find each other again on LinkedIn, and travel across cities to see people they once worked with.

They do it because leaving an employer did not end the relationship.

But not everybody can come to the Stammtisch. Not everybody is in the WhatsApp group. And relationships built over an entire career should not depend on somebody still having the right telephone number.

Holedo gives those relationships somewhere to stay.

Holedo is a permanent home for the people and companies of hospitality.

Your employer can change. Your job can change. Your country can change. You can be a student, a waiter, a recruiter, a chef, a general manager, an owner, or something entirely different five years from now.

You are still hospitality.

The people you have met, the companies you have known, and the relationships you have built do not have to disappear when you change jobs.

We do not need people to stay in the same hotel forever.

We need more of them to stay in hospitality.

A home is somewhere you are remembered when you come back.

What can you do with Holedo?

What do you want to do?

Talk to someone. Meet. Create files. Share files. Run a project. Run the numbers. Run the company. Find a job. Hire someone. Build a team. Follow the industry. Create a Space for colleagues, old and new. Organise something together. Stay in touch with people you have worked with.

You do not have to use all of Holedo.

You may come because you are looking for work. Because you are hiring. Because your team has a project to run. Because somebody invited you into a Space. Because you want to know what is happening in the industry. Or simply because people you know are there.

Every member has a professional profile.

People come together in Spaces to talk, meet, share files, organise, and work together.

A Space can be for a team, a project, or a group of former colleagues.

When a meeting ends, a project finishes, a vacancy closes, or somebody changes employer, the people remain on Holedo.

Why not Slack, Teams, Zoom, LinkedIn, Indeed, Hosco, WhatsApp, Microsoft, Google, Taleo, Pipedrive, Notion, Salesforce, Workday, Monday, Sunday, someday?

Imagine checking into The Peninsula Paris.

You show your passport, give your details and get your room.

Then you go to the restaurant. The bar. The gym. The spa.

Nobody asks you to create another account, show your passport again or enter your payment details again.

You do not have to use the gym. You do not have to go to the bar.

But if you do, you are already a guest.

Order a car and the hotel already knows who is travelling.

You move through the hotel as the same guest.

Imagine if every door meant another registration, another password, another set of permissions and another bill.

You would think the hotel was mad.

Yet that is how professional life online works.

Talk in one place. Meet somewhere else. Documents somewhere else. Spreadsheets somewhere else. Recruitment somewhere else. Jobs somewhere else. Industry news somewhere else.

Holedo works like the hotel.

You are already there.

Talk. Meet. Create files. Share files. Run a project. Run the numbers. Find a job. Hire someone. Follow the industry.

You do not have to use every room.

But when you need one, it is there.

Change employer and the private rooms change.

The old company closes the Spaces and files you should no longer enter. The new company opens its own.

You remain on Holedo.

Your profile continues. Your career continues. Your relationships continue. The Spaces that belong to your wider professional life continue.

You move through your professional life as the same person.

Professional software has built extraordinary rooms.

Holedo built the house.

How large is the hospitality industry?

Hospitality is part of the wider travel and tourism sector.

The World Travel & Tourism Council expects that sector to support 376 million jobs worldwide in 2026.

That is one in nine jobs globally.

Holedo is built for the people and companies in hospitality.

Hospitality is one of the largest groups of people in the world. Those people already work across borders, cultures, religions, and backgrounds every day.

Holedo gives them a place to stay connected, collaborate, and keep those relationships alive.

What is different about hospitality?

People move.

They move between hotels, brands, cities, and countries. They work seasonally. They take new jobs. They come back. They work for several employers during the course of a career.

And they move a lot.

In the United States, accommodation and food services averaged total separations equal to 5.5% of employment each month in 2025.

Imagine a hotel with 500 employees and annual staff turnover of 50%.

500 employees → around 250 replacements a year

Around 250 people leave during the year and have to be replaced just to keep the hotel at 500 employees.

The hotel is continually meeting, interviewing, hiring, training, and building relationships with new people.

This is what recruiting those people looks like in reality.

Applications arrive through the careers site.

Agencies send CVs.

Managers forward names by email, whatsapp, whateverapp.

People emailing CVs directly.

The recruiter is finding more people on LinkedIn.

The recruitment system is open.

LinkedIn Recruiter is open.

Email is open.

The calendar is open.

A spreadsheet somewhere.

A good person appears on LinkedIn.

The recruiter wants to talk to them.

Now the company needs them in the recruitment process.

The recruiter can send them the application link.

Or create the candidate in the recruitment system themselves.

Or keep working with the CV, LinkedIn, email, notes and whatever else is already open.

At this point there is an obvious question.

Isn’t this what LinkedIn is for?

I recently tested it.

I found a job at Mandarin Oriental in Vienna. It said:

Apply via LinkedIn.

I clicked Apply via LinkedIn.

LinkedIn asked me to authorise another system.

I authorised it.

The other system opened.

Then the application started.

Personal details.

Education.

Employment history.

Documents.

Job questions.

Declarations.

Some of the information brought across from LinkedIn needed correcting.

So I corrected it.

About eight minutes later, I reached the end.

I clicked Submit.

A red box appeared.

I could not submit the application because I had not viewed all the pages or completed all the mandatory questions.

This started with a button that said, “Apply via LinkedIn.” and ended with a red bar across the screen.

And applicants do abandon application processes constantly.

In Employ’s 2024 Job Seeker Nation Report, 39% said they would abandon an application if it took too long. Twenty eight percent said they would leave if asked to enter information already contained in their CV. Eighteen percent said they would leave if they had to register before applying. Jobvite

Holedo starts before the application form.

A hospitality professional creates their Holedo profile once.

From then on, that is their professional profile on Holedo.

They see a Holedo job.

They click Apply.

The recruiter opens Holedo.

The person is there.

Someone applies for one job but looks better for another.

Move them into the other pipeline.

Someone looks interesting.

Message them.

They agree to talk.

Send the scheduling link.

The meeting appears in the calendar.

Meet them in Holedo.

Take notes.

Open a document.

Still Holedo.

If the recruiter finds somebody elsewhere, they bring that person into Holedo.

From then on, the company can find them again.

The person carries on with their career.

They change jobs. Get promoted. Move country. Gain experience.

Their Holedo profile changes with them.

The company keeps its own history with that person.

So when the recruiter searches for somebody, people the company has already met appear in the same search as the wider Holedo network.

The recruiter does not need to remember their name first.

They search for the person they need now.

Someone the company met before can appear because they fit the search now.

And Holedo shows how the company already knows them.

Then the recruiter carries on recruiting.

Some take jobs at the hotel across the road. Some return years later. Some become managers, owners, suppliers, or customers elsewhere in the industry.

That is a lot of people and a lot of relationships to remember.

In hospitality, people moving is normal. Forgetting them should not be.

Some take jobs at the hotel across the road. Some return years later. Some become managers, owners, suppliers, or customers elsewhere in the industry.

That is a lot of people and a lot of relationships to remember.

In hospitality, people moving is normal. Forgetting them should not be.

What have we built?

Holedo is built.

Professional profiles. Companies. Spaces. Messaging and meetings. File sharing. Projects. Jobs. Recruitment and talent management. Hospitality news.

We ran a pilot with real people and companies.

We watched Holedo being used in real time and fine-tuned the product from what we learned.

Separately, onboarding new companies was a bottleneck. They could not join and get started without us setting them up by hand.

That bottleneck has now been removed.

People and companies can now join Holedo and get started themselves.

Around 20,000 hospitality professionals registered with Holedo during its development.

They are not 20,000 active users today.

They are 20,000 people who have already registered with us.

We are not starting from zero.

How does Holedo make money?

Holedo is free for hospitality professionals.

Companies can start free too.

They pay for additional recruitment, talent management, and business tools when they need them.

Holedo gives employers the tools of an executive search firm, at scale.

Where are we now?

We are pre-revenue.

The product is built.

The pilot is complete.

People and companies can join and get started themselves.

Now we need to promote Holedo, grow it, and see how far it can go.

The raise

We are raising €880,000.

The founders financed the build.

This round funds the next 18 months: growing use among existing members, bringing in new members and companies, and continuing to improve the product.

• €890,000 raise
• €7 million valuation cap
• 20% investor discount
• 30% Early Bird discount on the first €80,000