Booking Tech Platform Triptease Raises $9 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week

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Triptease has successfully faced down legal threats from Booking.com over its tactics to help hotels boost direct bookings. The startup says it has signed up 17,000 hotels as clients.
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. The total raised this week was more than $19 million in confirmed fresh funding.
>>Triptease, a London-based hotel technology startup, has raised $9 million in Series B funding, led by new investor BGF Ventures. Past investors, who have helped it raise more than $9 million before, include Notion Capital and Episode 1 Ventures, which also participated in this latest round.
Triptease will use some of the fresh capital to double its employee numbers across its London and New York offices and to open an office in Singapore.
The startup says that 17,000 hotels are using its software platform, to date. Its software aims to help hotels boost the number of customers who book directly through the engines on th