Beekeeper Raises $10 Million for Frontline Worker Communications: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: A SixtyHotels property in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. The property uses Beekeeper software as a hub for all operational communications. SixtyHotels
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Two startups that stand out in this funding roundup are Beekeeper, an operational communications service for staff at hotels and other companies, and Mystifly, an aviation retailing and payments platform.
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 $20 million in funding.
>>Beekeeper, an operational communications platform for hourly workers, has raised a $10 million extension to its Series B round — bringing the round to $60 million.
Energize Ventures led the round.
The Oakland, Calif.-based Beekeeper has clients in several industries, but hotel groups like Sixty Hotels, Hyatt, and Mandarin Oriental are among its notable users.
Beekeeper said it offers a single point of contact for frontline workers and their processes and systems. See our earlier profile of the company, one of Skift's top startups to watch in 2019.
>>Miles, a loyalty program for all forms of travel and transportation, said it had received a unspecified new investment from Liil Ventures that brought its total amount raised to date to $7.1 million.
Liil Ventures is the corpor
