The Travel Startups Venture Investment Map: 2009-2014


Skift Take

The next phase of travel investment will focus a lot more on B2B than disrupting the consumer, helping existing large travel brands on the backend and also helping them reach customers more efficiently.

Skift has been covering the travel startup sector and its place in the overall travel industry since we started in August 2012. But others such as Techcrunch have been covering the larger startup ecosystem for much longer. Specifically, its database product Crunchbase has been tracking investments since 2009, and it published a map of investments in the travel startup world from 2009 to today. The first chart, embedded below, shows the range of investments all over the world. The second chart show which institutiona