Duffel Raises $21.5 Million for Distribution Tech: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: A photo of key team members for Duffel, a travel startup that has been backed by Benchmark, a famous investment firm. Steve Domin, co-founder and CEO of Duffel, is in the center wearing shorts. Duffel
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This week travel startups GuestReady Group, Duffel, MagicStay, and Fairjungle announced more than $32 million in funding.
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 $32 million in funding. On Thursday Skift released its list of the top travel startups worldwide to watch in 2019. Here's the latest funding news, below:
>>Duffel, a creator of a travel booking system, has raised $21.5 million in Series A funding.
Benchmark, Blossom Capital, and Index Ventures participated. The startup raised $4.7 million in seed funding last year.
Duffel, founded in 2017 and based in London, hasn't launched its service to the public yet, so it remains hard to describe. It's a graduate of the Y Combinator startup incubator program.
Archaic software and processes underpin the travel sector, said Steve Domin, co-founder and CEO of Duffel. "We are reinventing the u
