Skift’s Top Travel Startups to Watch in 2017
Skift Take
Here are innovative young travel companies, from Medellín to Beijing, that are poised to achieve escape velocity.
This list is Skift's first attempt at spotlighting the most impressive new or little-known travel startups worldwide. (It's also our first shot at trolling Silicon Valley.)
We are drawing on the knowledge we have gained through five years of coverage of hundreds of newly launched travel companies.
Our list of 17 top startups in 2017 spotlights a mix of consumer and business-to-business models, with a few that derive revenue from both.
Some of these companies are profitable. Most aren't. We believe all of them address problems that are legitimate enough that customers will pay for their solutions, in due course, and that their number of potential customers is large.
We are avoiding companies that are well-known through splashy and expensive marketing. To help with that, we only include startups that have raised less than $15 million in funding.
Other factors we keep in mind: We want companies whose core teams have strong technica
