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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 $60 million in funding.
>>Hopin, a virtual events unicorn, raised $450 million in Series D funding, co-led by Arena Holdings and Altimeter Capital. Get the details at Event MB.
>>VNlife, the Vietnam-based parent firm of VNpay (a QR code payment network), has raised more than $250 million in a Series B funding round.
This funding, led by General Atlantic and Dragoneer Investment Group, will benefit the startup's subsidiary unit VNTourism, which runs a fast-growing domestic online travel group, VNTravel.
This online unit has served more than five million customers so far across brands such as MyTour. Its Tripi brand offers technology to travel agencies. The startup also runs Vietnam Airlines' mobile app.
>>Aviasales, a travel price comparison search site that has been focused on Russian-speaking travelers, raised $43
