Tiqets Secures $17 Million in Funding for Tours and Activities Ticketing
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This Dutch startup is growing by focusing on the problem of mobile ticketing and solving it with a product that requires almost no technical savvy from museums and other attraction operators. But it may need to be acquired to scale up quickly.
Tiqets, an Amsterdam-based travel tech startup, has landed a $17 million investment round.
HPE Growth Capital led the funding round. The company previously raised about $5.45 million from Capital Mills, Investion, and non-institutional investors, and its total funding now stands at more than $22 million.
Tiqets makes last-minute tickets for museums, tours, and activities bookable online via smartphones. It sells the tickets and provides the scannable barcode for reservations via a website and app that are available in seven languages.
The 75-employee company claims to be the fastest-growing tech company in the Netherlands and one of the fastest in Europe, according to data reviewed this spring by TNW and Adyen.
Tiqets doesn't publicize its revenue or its transaction volume, and we're skeptical about its boasts that it is now among the world's top three or four tours and activities players by transaction volu
