Interprefy Raises $2.8 Million for Event Tech: Travel Startup Funding This Week


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Startups announcing funding this week include Mindsay, a travel chatbot maker, Interprefy, a service for providing remote interpreters for events, Airfree, a service that sells duty-free products online during flights, and Airblack, a social-travel commerce startup.
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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.
This week travel startups announced more than $16 million in funding. Earlier this week, Mindsay raised a $10 million Series A round with participation by Accor and Groupe ADP (Paris Airports). DataArt, a technology consultancy for multiple sectors whose clients include Travelport and Apple Leisure Group, announced an undisclosed equity funding round led by the German development finance institution DEG. Here are the other travel startup fundings revealed this week: >>Interprefy, a remote simultaneous interpreting service, has raised about $2.8 million (2.875 Swiss franc), bringing its total early-stage financing raised to around $6.3 million (6.35m Swiss franc). Technologiefonds, a Swiss government-backed fund, contributed to the round. Until now, event producers seeking real-time translations at their events have needed interpreters and their equipment to be onsite and of