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Funding announced this week went to a wide variety of travel tech startups, with involvement in hotels, cruises, messaging, and sustainability.
Travel Startup Funding This Week
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. Please email Travel Tech Reporter Justin Dawes at [email protected] if you have funding news.
Five travel tech startups announced $47.5 million in funding this week.
>>HotelRunner has raised $6.5 million in a Series A round of funding from a group of new and existing firms including 212, Wix Capital, Founders Factory, Ascension Ventures, and DHM, as well as a group of angel investors.
London-based HotelRunner offers a suite of low-cost software products that can help hospitality clients streamline sales, operations, distribution management, and more. It also offers a platform where travel companies can connect and do business with one another, processing more than 35 million transactions daily between properties, travel agencies, travelers, and payment platforms.
Last June, Wix relaunched its software service for hotels with technology powered by HotelRunner’s products.
The company said it has thousands of clients in 193 countries.
The funding will go toward growing the business and the team, as well as investing in the technology. The company plans to open offices