OTA Yatra may have raised $14.5 million in Series D funding
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This should help refill Yatra's coffers, as the investment amount if correct is just a few million shy of what it spent to acquire Travelocity's Travelguru.com last week
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Yatra Raises $14.5 Million In Series D Funding http://t.co/1i89XcN3
@Yatra Online, one of the top three online travel agencies (OTA) in India, has raised $14.5 million (Rs 80 crore) in a series D round of funding. The money was raised from a group of five unnamed investors, according to an SEC disclosure…
When Techcircle.in got in touch with Yatra co-founder & CEO Dhruv Shringi, he denied the latest development and did not respond to the specific questions sent by us about the SEC disclosure.
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