AutoCamp Raises $115 Million for Glamping: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: Shown here are Airstream trailers rented via AutoCamp and set up in a park in the Russian River Valley in California. AutoCamp announced a fund-raising this week. AutoCamp / Hannah Merritt Photography
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AutoCamp has built an outdoor brand on offering bookings for glamping, or camping in amenity-filled recreational vehicles and luxury vans. Given a new $115 million investment, it will expand across the U.S. Read on for other funding news, too, from Intelity, Zingle, Recharge, and LuggageHero.
Travel Startup Funding This Week
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. Please email Travel Tech Reporter Justin Dawes at [email protected] if you have funding news.
This week travel startups announced more than $177 million in funding.
>>AutoCamp, a booking service for glamping — which involves camping in amenity-filled recreational vehicles, camper vans, and tents — announced a $115 million round of investment.
Whitman Peterson, a private equity firm, led the round.
AutoCamp, founded five years ago and based in San Francisco, will use the funding to expand beyond California locations, add to its 50-person workforce, and deepen its partnership with camper manufacturer Airstream, which provides custom-built units for the startup's campsite suites.
In January AutoCamp announced new advisory board members Chip Conley, founder and former CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, and Mike Depatie, former president and CEO of Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants.
>>Intelity, an enterprise mobile and in-room guest services platform, has received a $44 million growth investment from private equity firm
