Dreamlines Raises $19 Million for Its Cruise Site: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: For the second time in a year, Dreamlines, an online cruise travel agency based in Hamburg, has received a significant investment. Dreamlines
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The bar for success is higher than usual for these companies because of their unlikeliness: an online seller of cruise trips, a traditional "high street" travel agency, a network of freelance photographers, and a maker of eyewear that records 360-degree-video.
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 $31 million.
>>Dreamlines, an online cruise travel agency based in Hamburg, has had a top-up investment round of $19 million (€18 million). The latest backing follows an investment round in August 2016. Founded in 2012, it has raised $72 million to date from Dimaventures, Hasso Plattner Ventures Management, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Altpoint Capital Partners, and Target Global.
Dreamlines has specialized in European cruises though it increasingly offers inventory worldwide, claiming 30,000 cruises in its inventory. The funding will let it increase its staffi
