Home Rental Platform Le Collectionist Raises $10 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: Le Collectionist, a vacation rental marketplace startup, was founded in 2013 by three entrepreneurs shown here: Olivier Cahané (left), Max Aniort, and Eliott Cohen-Skalli (right). Le Collectionist
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With this funding, Le Collectionist ramps up its marketing of luxury vacation rentals. But Airbnb and other tech and lodging brands may not let this profitable segment be siphoned off by this and other young startups for long.
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. The total raised this week was more than $30 million.
Earlier this week we covered tour operator Context Travel's $5 million fundraising. Here are other companies that announced they raised funding:
>>Le Collectionist, an upscale villa rental marketplace, raised $10 million in a Series A equity round of investment. The company had previously raised $2.2 million.
The company has already spent some of the money by acquiring Bonder & Co., an Ibiza-based specialist in vacation rentals. Its 2,300 properties will be added to the group.
Venture fund Red River West led t
