Skift’s Top Travel Startups to Watch 2018
Photo Credit: An entrepreneur tests the used of mixed reality technology in the workplace in an experiment at Citi Innovation Lab using Microsoft's HoloLens. Startups are a key source of innovation in the travel industry, just as in other sectors, and this list salutes the year's most promising young companies. Microsoft
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Better, faster, stronger. We pinpointed 20 venture-backed companies — mostly young — that promise breakaway potential. These startups prove that innovation is happening everywhere, from Atlanta to Ramallah to Queensland.
No scooter startups or flying taxis. No blockchain-based dreams. And nothing from Silicon Valley — which hogs the spotlight enough as it is.
When Skift put together its list of the year's top 20 travel startups, we wanted to ignore the ones hyped elsewhere.
We also only included startups that have raised less than $25 million in venture funding. The reason? We've reviewed hundreds of emerging travel companies over nearly six years, and we've found that fundraising is a separate skill from building solid companies. Here's our all-star list, presented in alphabetical order.
20 Startups to Watch in 2018 (see our 2019 list here)
[caption id="attachment_289495" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Click to enlarge The size of the yellow spheres represents the estimated size of a company’s staff. The larger the sphere, the higher the headcount and estimated average annual revenue.[/caption]
Betterez
Toronto, Canada
Bus companies get the modern reservations and ticketing too
