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Brian Quinn, Skift
Please join Skift editors and research analysts, along with VC investors and startup founders, for this dive into the state of travel startups today.
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Please join Skift editors and research analysts, along with VC investors and startup founders, for this dive into the state of travel startups today.
19 hours ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
This week, travel startups Air Doctor (which helps travelers find doctors overseas), Hotelmize (which helps bedbanks automatically rebook hotel rooms when rates drop), and Huilianyi (a business travel expense manager), announced rounds of investment this week, in a bit of good news.
1 day ago
Seth Borko, Skift Research
Travel is a long-term megatrend because all across the globe people appreciate the value that it brings to their lives. This holds true across a vast range of human differences — cultural, geographical, religious, historical, generational, and more.
4 days ago
Rena Pacheco-Theard, Skift
Even in a time of uncertainty, new trends and opportunities are emerging, and startup founders are carrying on with the business of building companies, as well as families. Over the next 12 months, companies that can show strong unit economics, counter-cyclical resiliency and resourcefulness will rise to the top.
1 week ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Take a break from all the bad news and dream about flying taxis.
1 week ago
Seth Borko, Skift Research
We are headed into a winter for travel startups. But travel won't be gone forever. And history teaches us that startups are often the first to pinpoint our industry’s new direction as we exit a crisis.
2 weeks ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
This week, travel startups Bimble and Pruvo announced they had raised more than $1 million each in funding, despite the coronavirus crisis. Keep hope alive.
2 weeks ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Cloudbeds' ability to raise $82 million validates both its strategy and the broader hospitality tech sector. Other notable fundings this week include Checkfront, which helps tours-and-activities operators handle bookings and payments, and SuitePad, which supplies digital tablets to hotel guest rooms.
3 weeks ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Yonder, Airside, GogoBus, and TPConnects announced investments this week, showing that startup funding continued despite the recent global coronavirus crisis.
4 weeks ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Startups that got funding this week included Xband, which runs model villages in China, Lanes & Planes, a travel management company, Oaky, a specialist in hospitality upselling, Revl, an automated souvenir video service, and Viselio, a visa application simplifier.
1 month ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Several travel companies, such as Preferred Hotels & Resorts and Frankfurt Airport, have used the services of Loyalty Prime, a startup that builds next-generation software for running loyalty programs. Loyalty Prime's new funding is part of a wave of investment that we expect to see in loyalty tech companies.
1 month ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Ayenda's Series A is notable for being led by Kaszek, a giant among Latin American venture firms. The industry will be watching to see if Ayenda can apply Oyo's model of bringing brand standards to budget hotels without running up Oyo's large losses.
2 months ago