Klarna, a leading global retail bank, payments and shopping service, is bringing its signature smoooth experience to the travel sector with the acquisition of Inspirock, an online trip planner that enables consumers to quickly and easily explore a destination’s offerings and create personalized itineraries utilizing local expertise and artificial intelligence.

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Over 25 million travelers a year use Inspirock to plan trips tailored to their interests or find inspiration on where to go and what to see. Klarna will integrate Inspirock’s capabilities to allow Klarna’s 90M users to plan and shop for a trip and pay for it in installments – all through the Klarna app. In addition, Klarna aims to save its customers hours of planning for the typical vacation by using Inspirock’s technology.

Klarna CEO and Co-Founder, Sebastian Siemiatkowski said: “By bringing Inspirock to Klarna, we are bringing the best of Klarna’s smoooth customer experience to the travel sector. For customers, this makes the whole journey from inspiration to planning and preparing for a trip simpler, less stressful and more fun, while enabling our retail partners to better reach and engage with their audiences by offering more personalized content. It’s a natural extension of the benefits Klarna brings to payments and shopping.”

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Inspirock’s technology also enables Klarna to offer additional advertising and marketing opportunities to its growing network of over 250,000+ retail partners, helping them to reach high-intent shoppers with more curated and personalized content catered to their travel plans and preferences.

Anoop Goyal, CEO and Co-Founder of Inspirock said: “We are excited to bring simpler, easier trip planning to Klarna’s 90m global consumers. Our goal at Inspirock has been to make planning a trip fast, fun and easy. Together we can deliver on Klarna’s ambitions of providing a smooth shopping experience to the travel space in an innovative way. Klarna and Inspirock together can bring great inspiration, tools and shopping experiences, making planning the trip as fun as the actual trip itself.”

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