Blink Booking

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.

Blink Booking is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Travel, Hospitality, Hotels, and Booking.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyTravelHospitalityHotelsBookingMobile ApplicationsLast Minute TravelDefunctAcquiredSpain

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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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.