Cruise Agency Dreamlines Raises $55 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week


Felix Schneider CEO Dreamlines

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Cruise lines better hope that Dreamlines and other online booking tools for cruise travel don't interfere too much with their long-standing business models.
Series: Startups This Week

Travel Startup Funding This Week

Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. Please email Travel Tech Reporter Justin Dawes at jd@skift.com if you have funding news.
The total publicized this week was more than $63 million. Deals below. >>Dreamlines, an online agency focused on selling cruises, has raised $55 million in Series E funding. Princeville Global, a venture capital firm, led the round in the Hamburg, Germany-based company, which has raised about $130 million in funding since its launch in 2012. Past investors also participated in the latest round. These names include Holtzbrinck Ventures (HV), Target Global, Dimaventures, Hasso Plattner Ventures, TruVenturo, and Global Founders. Dreamlines, which has more than 400 employees worldwide, offers cruises from up to 100 operators to consumers in 10 countries in the U.S. and Europe. The tightly concentrated crui