Lola Gets $15 Million to Fund App Update: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: Lola, a company that launched a travel agent mobile app that's pictured here, raised $15 million this week. Lola / Skift
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While some entrepreneurs argue that speech, not messaging, is the future of how consumers will communicate with technology, Lola's CEO and co-founder Paul English told Skift last year that messaging is more popular than talking and Lola's latest investment will help it continue to test whether this is true with travelers.
Some travel startups are starting 2017 on a high note with funding and this week we have news from Airbnb, Resy, and Kayak co-founder's new startup to name a few.
Each week we create a roundup of travel startups that have received or announced funding that week. The total amount raised this week was more than $33 million.
Earlier this week we covered Airbnb's $13 million lead inves
