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Articles tagged “funding”

Online Travel

Investor Interest Grows for Startups Looking to Simplify Rail Booking

Up until recently, the ease and sophistication of bookings for hotels and flights far surpassed that of ground transportation, creating a small but growing market of entrepreneurs looking to solve the unsexy problem of back-end complexity and one-step transactions.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 9 years ago

Investor Interest Grows for Startups Looking to Simplify Rail Booking

Online Travel

Event Discovery App YPlan Raises $24 Million, Pivots Into Marketplace

Despite the alignment between live events and the photos and stories from them shared on social media, no discovery or ticketing service has achieved close to the growth of the latter. The lack of success in the sector raises questions as to why YPlan was able to raise such a large fund, with a significant part of its business model still in transition.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 9 years ago

Event Discovery App YPlan Raises $24 Million, Pivots Into Marketplace

Online Travel

Hotel-Booking Startup Roomer Raises $5 Million in Funding

Beyond the trust issue, Roomer's challenge is to publicize the service, scale it and to provide meaningful discounts off published rates in myriad markets on an everyday basis.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Hotel-Booking Startup Roomer Raises $5 Million in Funding

Online Travel

Cruise Portal Dream Lines Secures $25 Million in Funding

When using Dreamlines.de the user sees a steady stream of photos of call center agents, imploring customers "I am here for you." Online booking in cruise remains largely a dream deferred.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Cruise Portal Dream Lines Secures $25 Million in Funding

Online Travel

Auto Industry Bets on Ridesharing With $24 Million Getaround Funding

With just $40 million in the bank, don't expect Getaround to make good on its pledge to launch in "all major U.S. cities in the next year," but this latest funding round, in tandem with other fundings in this space, shows that ground transportation and ridesharing is the hottest thing going at the moment.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Auto Industry Bets on Ridesharing With $24 Million Getaround Funding

Online Travel

Former Marriott Execs Raise $3 Million in Seed Funding for Hotel Booking Site

This is filled with so many people from the same team that it appears there's a very specific problem Marriott has that it wasn't able to solve in-house.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Former Marriott Execs Raise $3 Million in Seed Funding for Hotel Booking Site

Online Travel

Tripoto Raises $400,000 to Create a Digital Travel Community

Trip sharing startups usually have a difficult time attracting and retaining users as well as turning user-generated content into a viable product.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago

Tripoto Raises $400,000 to Create a Digital Travel Community

Ground Transport

Uber Seeks To Add $1 Billion in Funding at $25 Billion Valuation

The outcry about Uber's potential $25 billion valuation may turn out to be more muted than the criticism of its $17 billion valuation just a few months ago in the summer of 2014. But is there a cap on all this? Apparently not.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Uber Seeks To Add $1 Billion in Funding at $25 Billion Valuation

Online Travel

Hotel Booking Tech Provider Avvio Raises a $5.6 Million Round

Global hotel corporations are finally embracing front-end and back-end technology is a big way, creating huge opportunities for providers on both sides of the equation.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotel Booking Tech Provider Avvio Raises a $5.6 Million Round

Airlines

GoEuro Raises $27 Million in Funding for Rail, Bus and Flight Platform

Doing what GoEuro is attempting to do, collecting and structuring all the data necessary to bring all of these varied transportation modes together, is harder to do than squeezing into a rush-hour subway in Times Square. But, someone's got to do it.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

GoEuro Raises $27 Million in Funding for Rail, Bus and Flight Platform