SA accommodation booking app LekkeSlaap acquired by investor consortium

What happened

South Africa’s largest accommodation bookings app LekkeSlaap has been acquired by a consortium of investors. Founded by university dropouts Jonathan Womersley and Marcel van de Ghinste in 2009, LekkeSlaap began life in a garage as TravelGround with 300 establishments listed.

LekkeSlaap itself was launched in 2013, as South Africa’s first Afrikaans leisure accommodation booking platform, [...] The post SA accommodation booking app LekkeSlaap acquired by investor consortium appeared first on Disrupt Africa . LekkeSlaap itself was launched in 2013, as South Africa’s first Afrikaans leisure accommodation booking platform, quickly usurping TravelGround, and growing to the point it now lists over 40,000 properties across Southern Africa and has managed bookings for over nine million guests since inception.