DAQ Soft Raises $5 Million for Smart Tourism: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: Chinese lucky wish bags cloak a large tree on Jin Li Alley in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, near the headquarters of Daqi Software, which provides services for commerce at tourism destinations like this one. Daqi raised funding this week. Flickr / David Stanley
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This week, travel startups DAQ Soft, The Guild, Shep, Hellotickets, Bob, Beonprice, Whizar, IceLolly, and Your Rentals raised funding. It's great that angel investors continue to support early-stage companies.
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 $48 million in funding.
Earlier this week, we reported that The Guild, a hospitality startup, had raised $25 million.
The Guild, based in Austin, operates 800 licensed hotel rooms with apartment-style accommodations in a handful of U.S. cities.
Venture firms Maveron, Convivialite Ventures, and ATX Venture Partners participated in this round of funding. The company previously raised $8.5 million in funding.
In other news, FCM Travel Solutions has taken a minority stake on undisclosed terms in Shep, a business travel startup.
FCM will also use Shep's tools to understand, monitor, and save on business travel bookings made on more than 70 consumer sites and outside of company policy and formal booking programs. Shep previously disclosed $1.6 million in fundraising, and its CEO was on Skift's 2018 Corporate Travel Innovators list.
Here are other startups that announced fundings recently:
>>DAQ Soft (Daqi Software), a
