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Articles tagged “vcroundup”

Online Travel

In Startup Funding This Week, AirHelp Raises $12 Million to Help Passengers With Flight Disruptions

This week's Delta Air Lines global outage puts a spotlight on the opportunity for startups such as AirHelp, which helps travelers deal with flight disruptions and makes a disjointed passenger experience less miserable.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 8 years ago

In Startup Funding This Week, AirHelp Raises $12 Million to Help Passengers With Flight Disruptions

Startups

Peek Raises $10 Million, JetBlue Invests in Ride-Sharing in Travel Startup Funding This Week

Peek boasts that it provides a great booking experience on both desktop and mobile devices, which at this stage in the game is a must if tours and activities platforms hope to keep pace with consumer demands and behavior.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 8 years ago

Peek Raises $10 Million, JetBlue Invests in Ride-Sharing in Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

Cloudbeds, Ridlr and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week

Cloudbed's recent venture round is in line with other small investments made in hotel software so far this year as investors are more cautious and focus on smaller funding amounts.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 8 years ago

Cloudbeds, Ridlr and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

WeSwap, SnapTravel and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week

Travelers don't even need to download an app anymore to book a hotel or flight thanks to travel bots on the world's top messaging platforms. We still have a lot to learn about how consumers want to engage with travel messaging bots but already know that convenience is their paramount feature.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 8 years ago

WeSwap, SnapTravel and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

Hospitality Tech Funding Is on a Downward Trend So Far in 2016

It's theoretically a great time to be investing in and creating hospitality tech startups with more hotels wanting to drive direct bookings and online travel agencies interested in getting their piece of the pie. But several factors, such as uncertainty with stock markets around the world, are making investors more cautious about if, and how much, they invest in these companies.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 8 years ago

Hospitality Tech Funding Is on a Downward Trend So Far in 2016

Online Travel

Revinate, Key Concierge and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week

Several hotel companies are looking at digitizing the concierge experience so human concierge staff have more time to devote to complicated guest requests. It's still early to tell how this will pan out in the vacation rental market, which Key Concierge's is targeting.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 8 years ago

Revinate, Key Concierge and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

Bidroom, Fabhotels and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week

The hospitality sector has been one of the warmest for startup funding so far this year and this past week was no exception to that trend.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 8 years ago

Bidroom, Fabhotels and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

Rocketrip Raises $9 Million — Travel Startup Funding This Week

Besides the notion that there are few companies that wouldn't want their employees to save them money, technology that makes business travel more efficient is in high demand from brands that get it.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 8 years ago

Rocketrip Raises $9 Million — Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

Evolve Vacation Rental Network, Wheels Up and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week

As one of the last uncultivated frontiers for online travel we'll likely keep seeing large sums of funding heading towards vacation rental startups the world over.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 8 years ago

Evolve Vacation Rental Network, Wheels Up and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

TravelPerk, Hotelsoft and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week

We're desperate for any solution that makes booking corporate travel less painful. It appears TravelPerk's investors realize the value in a company that wants to give travel managers technology that makes them smarter, and that's a long time coming.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 8 years ago

TravelPerk, Hotelsoft and More in Travel Startup Funding This Week