Keteka, Wheel the World and Hotel con Corazon won equity free grants from the Booking.com Booking Booster program. Keteka and Wheel the World took home €275k, while Hotel con Corazon came away with €100k.
Keteka, a Magma Partners portfolio company with offices in Santiago, Chile and Chicago, connects travelers directly with guides of off the beaten path tours in Latin America, allowing guides to take home a much larger share of tourism dollars compared to traditional tourism.
Wheel the World, a Chilean/Bay Area company, is a guide and marketplace for wheelchair friendly tourism around the world.
Hotel con Corazon is a boutique hotel in Nicaragua and Mexico that pays fair wages and donates much of its profits to education in the cities where they have their hotels.