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Travel Venture Capital News

Online Travel

Divvy Raises $10.5 Million to Tame Expense Reports: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Divvy is an expense management startup that faces formidable competition from incumbent players, such as Concur, Certify, and Expensify. To draw users, it's offering business travel booking discounts and tools. Clever.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Divvy Raises $10.5 Million to Tame Expense Reports: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

Cruise Agency Dreamlines Raises $55 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Cruise lines better hope that Dreamlines and other online booking tools for cruise travel don't interfere too much with their long-standing business models.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Cruise Agency Dreamlines Raises $55 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

Life House Raises $40 Million to Modernize Hotels: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Life House is a hospitality company that strives to be an experience platform offering more than mere beds to sleep in, echoing some of the Megatrends Skift identified for 2018. But it's unclear why investors in the company think it will scale as rapidly as venture capitalists typically expect.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Online Travel

Guesty Raises $19 Million for Vacation Rental Sales: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Travel startups raised more than $128 million this week. Tel Aviv-based Guesty, which is like a Salesforce for vacation rental property managers, was one of the fortunate companies.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Guesty Raises $19 Million for Vacation Rental Sales: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

Why Everybody Now Wants a Piece of the Tours and Activities Sector

Large travel corporations can't seem to get enough of the tours and activities space. It's one to watch as the year unfolds. Deals can be a great way to get a foot in the door, but don't forget to make sure there is a strategic fit — and, of course, that the price is right.

Seth Borko, Skift Research | 6 years ago

Why Everybody Now Wants a Piece of the Tours and Activities Sector

Online Travel

TravelPerk Raises $21 Million for Business Travel Bookings: Travel Startup Funding This Week

TravelPerk's and TravelTriangle's fundings are yet a further sign that Skift called it right in our 2018 megatrend predictions. We said companies are investing heavily in treating business travelers as respectable consumers rather than as animals that need prodding like goats.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

TravelPerk Raises $21 Million for Business Travel Bookings: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

IfOnly Raises $20 Million for Activities Booking: Travel Startup Funding This Week

MasterCard, Hyatt, and others must have done their homework before they invested in IfOnly. Still, the startup certainly expects outsiders to take too much on faith about its progress.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

IfOnly Raises $20 Million for Activities Booking: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Online Travel

Skift Forum Europe Preview: Amadeus Is Revving Up Its Startup Involvement

Travel startups face long odds, but the lucky ones have a champion in Suzanna Chiu, who has spearheaded an array of programs at travel technology giant Amadeus that have been helping startups thrive. The industry needs more folks like her.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Skift Forum Europe Preview: Amadeus Is Revving Up Its Startup Involvement

Online Travel

Dubai Agency HolidayMe Raises $12 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week

As winter gives way to spring, at least in the northern hemisphere, startups raised more than $24 million to expand online travel booking and planning in the Middle East and Europe. Just in time for consumers planning summer trips.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Dubai Agency HolidayMe Raises $12 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Short-Term Rentals

Interview: Stay Alfred CEO on Building the Future of Vacation Rental Tech

There's a new generation of property managers trying to bring hotel-like professionalism and scale to the vacation rental market. Their tech chops will play a large role in determining if they succeed or fail.

Seth Borko, Skift Research | 6 years ago

Interview: Stay Alfred CEO on Building the Future of Vacation Rental Tech