SevenRooms Raises $50 Million for Hospitality Tech: Travel Startup Funding This Week

This week, travel startups announced more than $275 million in funding. >>Sonder is on track to raise $200 million as part of a new Series E funding round set to close soon. The San Francisco-based company confirmed this week that it had raised $170 million so far in the round, led by Fidelity, Westcap, and Inovia Capital. >>SevenRooms, a guest experience platform for restaurants and hotels, raised $50 million in Series B funding. Providence Strategic Growth led the round in the New York-based startup. SevenRooms has heavily focused on restaurants so far. But increasingly many hotel groups, such as Mandarin Oriental and MGM Resorts International, have been adopting its services for managing their food-and-beverage and related operations. Its software combines customer relationship management tools with tools for reservation, waitlist, and table management, online ordering, contactless ordering and payments, onl