Ad Tech Firm Urban Airship Raises $25 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Sean O'Neill

June 22nd, 2018 at 1:00 AM EDT

Photo Credit: A photo of the Urban Airship team at the 2018 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. From left to right: Vas Theodopoulis, David Cook, Sarah MacDonald, Nigel Arthur (Managing Director, EMEA), Steve Tan, Mike Herrick (SVP of Product & Engineering), Sareeta Balakumar, Karen Pattani-Hason, Eric Holmen (SVP of Worldwide Sales), Jon Stuart, and George Lynch. Urban Airship, an advertising technology company based in Portland, Oregon, has raised $25 million to help further scale up its push notifications for companies like Alaska Airlines. Urban Airship

Skift Take

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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.

The total publicized this week was nearly $50 million. Earlier this week we reported that Peek, a software vendor for tour operators, raised a $23 million Series B funding round. >>Urban Airship, an advertising technology company with many travel company clients, has raised $25 million in Series F funding. Foundry Group led the round. The Portland, Ore.-based startup, which claims to be breaking even, has raised more than $100.7 million, the company said. Companies in travel, such as Alaska Airlines, and in other sectors use Urban Airship for mobi

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