Emerging Travel Group Raises $10 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week
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From TripActions' quarter billion dollar investment round to Emerging Travel Group's solid $10 million round, there's lots going on in travel startup funding this week.
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.
Travel startups announced more than $360 million in funding in the last couple weeks. Here's this latest in tech funding.
Since our last roundup, Skift covered TripActions' $250 million investment, Asian tour aggregator's BeMyGuest undisclosed Series B funding, and one-app global ride-hailing solution Splyt's $8 million in Series A funding. In addition, Skift reported that Indonesia’s leading online travel agency Traveloka invested an undisclosed amount, unofficially said to be about $2.2 million ($3 million Singaporean) in PouchNATION, a Singapore-based events company whose electronic wristbands enable payments at events.
Here are other companies that recently announced funding rounds.
>>Huangbaoche, a tour guide and transportation platform, has raised $50 million in Series C funding.
Shenzhen Capital Group led the latest round and the company has now raised $155.6 million in total.
Like other tours and activities businesses, it has grown steadily over the past
