aid: blink-booking
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/blink-booking.png
name: Blink Booking
description: 'Blink Booking was a Madrid, Spain based mobile application for last-minute
  hotel booking, founded in 2011 by Rebeca Minguela and Miguel Ortega Rodriguez. The
  app presented travellers with a curated daily selection of four discounted hotels
  for same-day stays, working with more than 2,000 hotel partners across eight European
  countries, and competed directly with HotelTonight. The company raised approximately
  $2.5M in a Series A round in May 2012 from Ventech, Uncork Capital (then SoftTech
  VC), 500 Global (then 500 Startups) and Kibo Ventures. Groupon acquired Blink Booking
  in September 2013 to strengthen its Groupon Getaways travel division; the app was
  rebranded "Blink by Groupon" and was wound down over the following months. The company
  is defunct and publishes no developer surface, no API, and no documentation. Its
  former blinkbooking.com domain lapsed and was re-registered in August 2020 by an
  unrelated party; it now redirects to a third-party gambling site and must not be
  treated as a company property.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/blink-booking/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Acquired by Groupon September 2013, rebranded "Blink by Groupon",
  brand wound down by 2014. Crunchbase operating status Closed.
x-acquired-by: groupon
x-acquired-date: '2013-09-09'
x-founded: '2011'
x-headquarters: Madrid, Spain
x-github-candidate: https://github.com/blinkbooking
x-github-candidate-note: 'UNCONFIRMED, deliberately NOT wired as a GitHubOrganization
  pointer. Account exists (HTTP 200) with 2 repos, both forks and no original code:
  OverblogThriftBundle (Symfony 2 / PHP) and TUDelorean (Objective-C time-travel test
  helper, forked from Madrid-based Tuenti). The stack and geography are consistent
  with Blink Booking, but no profile bio, website link or commit attribution confirms
  first-party ownership, and it publishes no specs or SDKs. Left unscored pending
  verification.'
x-former-website: https://blinkbooking.com
x-former-website-note: 'DO NOT LINK: domain lapsed and was re-registered 2020-08-01
  (NameCheap) by an unrelated party. It now 302s to dinkesindramayu.org, an Indonesian
  gambling/slot site, and returns catch-all HTTP 200 for every path including /.well-known/*
  and /llms.txt. All probe hits against this host are soft-404 false positives and
  were deliberately discarded.'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Travel
- Hospitality
- Hotels
- Booking
- Mobile Applications
- Last Minute Travel
- Defunct
- Acquired
- Spain
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Crunchbase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blink-booking
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blink-booking
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
  note: Defunct company (Groupon acquisition 2013, wound down 2014). No API, docs,
    SDK, GitHub org or developer surface exists. Former domain is a squatted gambling
    redirect serving catch-all 200s; no artifacts were saved from it.