Event Tech Startups Raised $40 Million in 2016: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: MeetingPlay helps meeting planners build custom event apps. MeetingPlay
Skift Take
Hopefully meeting and event tech startups get more VC love in 2017 because it's one of the industries that requires the most innovation to keep up with growing worldwide demand.
Event and meetings tech startups had a slow year for venture capital funding compared to other travel sectors, raising only about $40 million in 2016.
Social Tables, a Washington, D.C.-based event planning software company, had the largest funding for the year raising a $13 million Series B round in October, while Bizly, an on-demand meetings booking platform based in New York City, raised $1.5 million last year.
Skift noted last year that the meetings industry doesn
