StayPlease Raises Funds to Expand ‘Slack for Hotels’: Travel Startup Funding This Week


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This week’s travel startups, including Sonder, StayPlease, and Bolt, released a series of funding announcements, many of them for undisclosed amounts.

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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 nearly $230 million in funding, and significantly more in undisclosed amounts. Here's the latest.  Earlier this week we covered the boutique hotel-style accommodations business Sonder, which has raised $225 million as part of its latest funding round. The total includes $210 million in Series D funding led by Valor Equity, Westcap, and Nicholas Pritzker, through Tao Capital Partners. Here are other companies that announced recently that they had raised funding. >>StayPlease is a hospitality tech platform used for operations and guest relations — pithily described a "Slack for hotels." The Hong Kong-based