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  "markdown": "President and CEO.\n\nFelix Shpilman is president and chief executive of Emerging Travel Group, which runs RateHawk, ZenHotels and Roundtrip. He joined Ostrovok.ru, the group's hotel booking service, in 2013 as vice president of strategy, later ran its core operations, and became chief executive in 2017.\n\n## What Felix builds\n\n- [ETG API (RateHawk)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ratehawk.md), graded D, 53.1/100, in Travel \u0026 booking. Hotel search and booking API from Emerging Travel Group, the company behind RateHawk and ZenHotels. Contracted partners search rates, prebook, book and cancel stays over REST, with B2B, Affiliate and Content APIs. President and CEO, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Astrid Kastberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/astrid-kastberg/), Managing Director, RateHawk\n- [Kirill Makharinsky](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kirill-makharinsky/), Co-founder, left in 2014\n- [Serge Faguet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/serge-faguet/), Co-founder, left in 2017\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [LVL1 Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lvl1-group/)\n- [Bukhman family office](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bukhman-family-office/)\n- [Vaizra Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/vaizra-capital/)\n- [General Catalyst](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/general-catalyst/)\n- [Accel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/accel/)\n- [Frontier Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/frontier-ventures/)\n- [Shervin Pishevar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/shervin-pishevar/)\n- [Edward Kaufman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/edward-kaufman/)\n- [Erik Blachford](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/erik-blachford/)\n- [Gregg Brockway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gregg-brockway/)\n- [Brad Gerstner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/brad-gerstner/)\n- [Yuri Milner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/yuri-milner/)\n- [Esther Dyson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/esther-dyson/)\n- [Founders Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/founders-fund/)\n- [Atomico](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/atomico/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Felix Shpilman?\n\nFelix Shpilman is president and chief executive of Emerging Travel Group, which runs RateHawk, ZenHotels and Roundtrip. He joined Ostrovok.ru, the group's hotel booking service, in 2013 as vice president of strategy, later ran its core operations, and became chief executive in 2017.\n\n### What does Emerging Travel Group make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists ETG API (RateHawk) from Emerging Travel Group. Hotel search and booking API from Emerging Travel Group, the company behind RateHawk and ZenHotels. Contracted partners search rates, prebook, book and cancel stays over REST, with B2B, Affiliate and Content APIs.\n\n### Who has invested in Emerging Travel Group?\n\nThe sources our research read name LVL1 Group, Bukhman family office, Vaizra Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Frontier Ventures, Shervin Pishevar, Edward Kaufman, Erik Blachford, Gregg Brockway, Brad Gerstner, Yuri Milner, Esther Dyson, Founders Fund and Atomico.\n\n### How are Felix's tools graded?\n\nETG API (RateHawk) is graded D, 53.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ratehawk.com/\n- https://www.emergingtravel.com/about\n- https://docs.emergingtravel.com/\n- https://docs.emergingtravel.com/docs/certification/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrovok.ru\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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