Headout Raises $30 Million for Experiences: Travel Startup Funding This Week
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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 $30 million in funding.
>>Headout, which runs an app for booking experiences, has raised an extra $30 million in its Series B round. A few months ago, it raised $12 million in Series B financing.
Glade Brook Capital led both the latest and previous financings in this Series B.
"With all of the previous raise still in our bank and our consistently profitable economics, we have all the firepower we need," said Varun Khona, co-founder and CEO of the New York City-based startup, in a statement.
Khona said the company — which lets consumers book last-minute activities in many major cities — turned profitable in July 2021 on an earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization basis.
It delivered more than "800 percent gro
