Tiqets Raises $23 Million for Museum Ticketing: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: The Tiqets team at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The attractions booking company has raised a fresh round of funding. Tiqets
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Tiqets tackled the hard problem of helping many museums that lacked tech savvy to adopt modern sales techniques. Now it's seeing a payoff. In other news, events tech company Headbox and online travel agency Sastaticket raised money.
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 startups announced more than $262.6 million in funding.
Earlier this week we reported on Sojern, a travel tech startup, having raised a $120 million Series D round.
We also reported that BlaBlaCar, the world’s largest long-distance ridesharing community, had received a $113 million (€101 million) Series D extension in BlaBlaCar as a new investor from state-owned rail operator SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français).
Here are other companies that announced this week that they had raised funding.
>>Tiqets, an attractions booking startup, has raised $23 million as an extension of the company's Series B funding round.
HPE Growth Capital led the round.
Founded in 2014, the 120-employee Tiqets is based in Amsterdam and has raised $44.5 million in total, to date
