Articles tagged “travel startups”

Startups

This Y Combinator Startup Wants To Be Africa’s ‘Backbone of Travel’

Some investors are hesitant to fund startups in places experiencing currency volatility, but Triply overcame that challenge while consolidating payment tools for smaller travel businesses.

Elizabeth Casolo | 1 week ago

This Y Combinator Startup Wants To Be Africa’s ‘Backbone of Travel’

Business Travel

Emburse Buys Tripbam in Corporate Travel Tech Mash-Up

This deal is a nice landing for the startup Tripbam, which helps travel managers track prices. The giant in corporate travel software, SAP Concur, needs to watch its back as upstarts like Emburse become assertive.

Sean O'Neill | 9 months ago

Emburse Buys Tripbam in Corporate Travel Tech Mash-Up

Airlines

India Daily: Finance Minister Explores Aerospace Opportunities With Boeing

To become creators of equipment, platforms and systems will require a thriving indigenous research, design, development and manufacturing infrastructure.

Amrita Ghosh | 11 months ago

India Daily: Finance Minister Explores Aerospace Opportunities With Boeing

Online Travel

Sequoia Capital-Backed Safara Curates New Gen Z Travel Booking

Gen Z travelers are hard to please. With support from Sequoia and defy.vc partners, hotel booking startup Safara is looking to build loyalty in this demographic by focusing on curations, memberships, and environmental consciousness.

Sherry Sun | 1 year ago

Sequoia Capital-Backed Safara Curates New Gen Z Travel Booking

News Blog

Startup Volantio Closes $6 Million Funding Round With Help From Alaska Airlines and JetBlue

Volantio, an optimization startup that has many airline customers, said on Thursday it had closed a $6 million Series A fundraising. DiamondStream Partners, an aviation and aerospace venture capital firm, led the round in the Atlanta-based company. Alaska Airlines, one of Volantio's customers, also took an equity stake. JetBlue Technology Ventures, IAG, Amadeus Ventures, and…

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

Startups

Hotailors Lands $24 Million to Build New Financial Products: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Hotaliors secures more cash to develop new products and carry out a rebrand, while insurance platform Faye wants to make claim processes even easier with fresh funding.

Matthew Parsons | 2 years ago

Hotailors Lands $24 Million to Build New Financial Products: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Startups

Why European Investing Giant Kinnevik Is Betting on Travel Startups

Even though Kinnevik is Europe's largest publicly listed startup investor, it has only recently begun to take stakes in travel startups. What it looks for in companies tells a broader story of how investors generally view the sector.

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

Why European Investing Giant Kinnevik Is Betting on Travel Startups

Hotels

OTA Insight Buys Transparent to Offer Both Hotel and Vacation Rental Data

Here's yet another sign that alternative accommodations are becoming sophisticated businesses just like hotels.

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

OTA Insight Buys Transparent to Offer Both Hotel and Vacation Rental Data

Online Travel

Hopper Inherits an Air France-KLM Partnership as Part of Acquisition

The acquisition of Smooss clearly wasn't a budget buster for Hopper, but it could be another piece in the unglamorous behind-the-scenes tech effort to smooth the way for distribution deals with airlines.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Hopper Inherits an Air France-KLM Partnership as Part of Acquisition

Startups

Tour Livestreaming Startup Heygo Taps Creator Economy for Revenue

The startup Heygo is like a "Twitch for travel" in the sense it's surfing the waves of interest in live-streaming by the creator economy. Destination marketers need to tune in.

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

Tour Livestreaming Startup Heygo Taps Creator Economy for Revenue