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Fever Raised $35 Million for Event Tech: Travel Startup Funding This Week

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Photo Credit: A scene from an event last year at the venue NuBel in Madrid, which was advertised on the booking site Fever. The event tech startup Fever, which studies consumer data to recommend experiences for booking and helps companies plan events, has raised a $35 million round. Fever

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This week travel startups announced more than $40 million in funding. Notably two of the companies, travel medical insurance seller SafetyWing and upselling tech firm HotelFlex, are graduates of the famed Y Combinator startup accelerator.

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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 jd@skift.com if you have funding news.
This week travel startups announced more than $40 million in funding. >>Fever, a company that studies consumer data to recommend events and experiences for booking and helps companies plan events, raised a $35 million Series D funding round. Rakuten Capital, the corporate venture capital arm of Japanese e-commerce Rakuten, led the round. Rakuten, which runs a large online travel business unit, will become a commercial partner. Accel, Atresmedia, and others also participated in the investment round. The startup has raised more than $76 million to date. Fever is mainly a marketplace matching consumers with experiences in major cities such as London, New York, Paris, and Madrid. But it also helps brands create events, such as product launches. For example, it runs Fever Originals, creating its own events

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