Yonder Raises $4 Million for Nature Travel: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: The Cottonwood Creek Cabin is a mountain retreat near Chewelah, Washington. Yonder
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Yonder, Airside, GogoBus, and TPConnects announced investments this week, showing that startup funding continued despite the recent global coronavirus crisis.
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 $5 million in funding.
>>Yonder, a booking agency for nature travel in the U.S., said it had raised a $4 million seed round.
Unnamed investors took stakes in the Hamilton, Montana-based startup.
Using Yonder's site and mobile app, travelers can book overnight stays and activities at farms, ranches, vineyards, and similar "nature immersive" places.
Tim Southwell, permaculture farmer and farm stay owner, created Yonder because he was frustrated by mainstream booking sites underserving the farm stay community. His service aims to expose people to surp
