Airside Raises Millions From Bain Capital for Digital Identity Tools: Travel Startup Funding This Week

This week, startups relevant to the travel sector announced more than $24 million in funding. >>Airside Mobile, a provider of digital identity solutions for travel and other sectors, has raised an undisclosed round of funding. Bain Capital Ventures led the round, the Arlington, Virginia-based startup confirmed to Skift. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the startup said it might raise around $13 million in this investment round. [caption id="attachment_401432" align="alignright" width="400"] A sign advertising the mobile passport app by a passport control station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida's airport in 2016. Source: Airside[/caption] Earlier this year, Amadeus said that its investment arm had invested in Airside. The Madrid-based travel technology giant said it also planned to deploy some of the startup's services.