Mobile Check-In App OpenKey Raises $8 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: OpenKey, with its homepage pictured here, raised an $8 million funding round this week to build out its mobile room key technology. OpenKey
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It's been a quieter year for mobile check-in and room key news as many hotels are on board and offer this technology to guests. But data show many guests aren't actually using mobile room keys and aren't satisfied with them, and it's important that new innovation from startups like OpenKey continue to help hotels get this right.
Each week we create a roundup of travel startups that have received or announced funding that week. The total amount raised this week among companies we tracked was $29.3 million.
Here are six companies that announced they raised funding this week. You can see previous roundups here.
>>In another move to help innovate the rental car sector, San Francisco-based Getaround raised a $10 million venture round from Toyota Motor Corp. The company, which is a mobile app and a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that enables car owners to rent out their cars, has now raised more than $56 million since it was founded in 200
