Bizzabo and Gather Raise Millions for Event Tech: Travel Startup Funding This Week

This week travel startups announced more than $119 million in venture capital equity funding. Earlier this week we covered Airbnb's Series B lead investment in Lyric, a U.S. short-term rental brand, about $75 million of which was venture equity. We also noted that Splitty, an Israel-based hotel booking platform, raised $6.75 million in Series A funding led by Fosun RZ Capital and joined by other investors including Cockpit Innovation. Here are other companies that announced this week that they had raised funding. >>Bizzabo, a developer of event software, raised $27 million in Series D funding. Viola Growth led the round, with Next47, Pilot Growth, and Maor Investments participating. The round brings Bizzabo’s total funding to $56 million. Bizzabo aims to make it easier to create, manage, and execute every aspect of events for companies like HubSpot, GainSight, Dow Jones, and Teach for America. The Tel Aviv-based startup, which was founded in