Tourlane Raises $47 Million for Multiday Tours: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: Julian Stiefel (left) and Julian Weselek cofounded Tourlane in 2016. The Berlin-based company, which helps travelers tame the complexity of planning and booking multi-day trips, has raised a Series C round of funding. Tourlane
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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 $75 million in funding.
>>Tourlane, an online travel agency for booking multiday tours, has raised $47 million in a Series C funding round, following fast on a Series B round late last year.
Sequoia and Spark Capital co-led the round. DN Capital and HV Holtzbrinck Ventures also participated, along with angel investors Nate Blecharczyk from Airbnb, Johannes Reck from GetYourGuide, Rolf Schrömgens from Trivago, Wolfgang Heigl from Swoodoo and Hometogo, and Fritz Demopolous from Qunar.
The Berlin-based startup has now raised $81 million (€71.6 million) in funding to date.
"Given the complexity of arranging multiday trips with countless documents and reservations, the co-founders had to reimagine what an online travel company should look like," said Andrew Reed, an investor at Sequoia. "The result is a unique business, both complementary to much of the online travel industry and poised to reshape the existing model of offli
