Sean O'Neill, Skift
Investors have bet on some innovative business models. AirPortr has hand-delivered about 100,000 bags from homes to airports, lifting a worry off the hands of Londoners as they pass through airport security. PaulCamper is an Airbnb for RVs. Meanwhile, SleepBox converts spare hotel rooms into video game halls and other social zones for college students.
3 days ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
This week travel startups announced more than $40 million in funding. Notably two of the companies, travel medical insurance seller SafetyWing and upselling tech firm HotelFlex, are graduates of the famed Y Combinator startup accelerator.
1 week ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
This week travel startups announced approximately $95 million in funding. One standout was Socio, a company that offers software for managing events. Its funding highlights a broader trend of investment in the event tech sector.
2 weeks ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
This week a handful of companies announced more than $650 million in funding. Business models include intercity bus and train travel, Oyo-style franchising in China, and the mobile ordering of duty-free goods on airplanes.
3 weeks ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
In the past seven days, travel startups announced more than $216 million in funding. But the hot market deserves a warning that paraphrases Fleetwood Mac: Investors only love you when they're investing. Funding will come and it will go. When the rain washes you clean you'll know. You'll know.
1 month ago
Rosie Spinks, Skift
This week’s travel startups, including Sonder, StayPlease, and Bolt, released a series of funding announcements, many of them for undisclosed amounts.
1 month ago
Patrick Whyte and Rosie Spinks, Skift
From TripActions' quarter billion dollar investment round to Emerging Travel Group's solid $10 million round, there's lots going on in travel startup funding this week.
2 months ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
What makes Utrip's collapse eye-catching is that the company had the makings of becoming a respectable, if not a sensational, business. A timeline of the company's strategic decisions and failed attempt to get acquired may provide a few lessons for other travel startups.
2 months ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
This week travel startups GuestReady Group, Duffel, MagicStay, and Fairjungle announced more than $32 million in funding.
2 months ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
We’ve pinpointed 25 of the most promising venture-backed travel companies. Check out our list to find a useful partner for your business.
2 months ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
TUI Fly says it's the first airline to work with tech vendors to automate and standardize the process of flight disruption claims. Larger carriers, take note: You also need to reduce your enormous backlogs of consumer claims, whether you build tech in-house or find a vendor.
2 months ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Yanolja got its start as a chain of so-called love motels. But it has since become a reputable online travel agency in Korea and a provider of a widely used property management system. No wonder Booking Holdings has made a strategic investment in the company.
2 months ago