
HotelRunner: The Turkish Hotel-Tech Platform That Started as CloudArena
HotelRunner: Turkish hotel-tech platform from Istanbul. 60,000+ partners, 193 countries. Founded as CloudArena 2011 by Agopyan and Beklen. $1.5M seed in 2013.

HotelRunner: Turkish hotel-tech platform from Istanbul. 60,000+ partners, 193 countries. Founded as CloudArena 2011 by Agopyan and Beklen. $1.5M seed in 2013.

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