Travelsify Raises $5.8 Million for Hotel and Restaurant Tech: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Sean O'Neill
September 28th, 2018 at 1:00 AM EDT
Skift Take
Accor's backing of Travelsify is eye-opening. It suggests that the hotel giant will take advantage of the startup's artificial intelligence-powered engine, which collects data about hotels, restaurants, and vacation rentals to boost online marketing and discovery.
The total funding publicized this week was more than $8.3 million. That doesn't include the commitment that Oyo, the next-generation hotel brand based in India, which said this week it had received $1 billion in commitments for funding.
>>Travelsify, has raised $5.8 million, or €5 million, in seed funding.
AccorHotels led the round. Travelsify has raised $9.3 million, or €8 million, to date.
The company is an artificial intelligence-powered engine that collects and generates information about restaurants, hotels, and vacation rentals that can facilitate more sophisticated marketing and recommendations. Travelsify's database off
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