WeSwap, SnapTravel and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: SnapTravel is a messaging bot for booking hotels on Facebook Messenger, Slack and SMS. SnapTravel
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Travelers don't even need to download an app anymore to book a hotel or flight thanks to travel bots on the world's top messaging platforms. We still have a lot to learn about how consumers want to engage with travel messaging bots but already know that convenience is their paramount feature.
Each week we create a roundup of travel startups that have received or announced funding that week. The total amount raised this week among companies we tracked was $20.3 million.
Here are five companies that announced they raised funding this week. You can see previous roundups here.
>>WeSwap raised a $7.2 million Series B round from new investor Ascot Capital Partners and existing investors EC1 Capital and IW Capital and that brings the London, UK-based startup's total funding to about $18.4 million.
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