This Week in Travel Startup Funding: Meerkat, Rover and More
Photo Credit: Rover is a dog sitting service offering people who will watch dogs while their owners are on vacation. Rover
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Pets deserve a vacation too and with Rover their owners can't say there weren't any sitters available as an excuse not to take a vacation. Also, Meerkat's bank account keeps growing but whether users' interests are as well is a different story.
Each week we create a roundup of travel startups that have received or announced funding that week. The total amount raised this week was nearly $40 million.
Here are seven companies that announced they raised funding this week, listed in order by the highest amount raised. See previous roundups here.
>>Rover raised a $25 million Series E round from new investor Technology Crossover Ventures and existing investors Petco, Menlo Ventures, Madrona Venture Group and Foundry Group bringing the Seattle, Washington-based startup's total funding to more than $50.9 million (its last funding roun
