Airside Raises Millions From Bain Capital for Digital Identity Tools: Travel Startup Funding This Week

Sean O'Neill

August 7th, 2020 at 1:00 AM EDT

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This week, startups relevant to the travel sector announced more than $24 million in funding. Their very startup-y sounding names are Airside, Breezeway, and Delightree.

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, startups relevant to the travel sector announced more than $24 million in funding. >>Airside Mobile, a provider of digital identity solutions for travel and other sectors, has raised an undisclosed round of funding. Bain Capital Ventures led the round, the Arlington, Virginia-based startup confirmed to Skift. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the startup said it might raise around $13 million in this investment round. [caption id="attachment_401432" align="alignright" width="400"] A sign advertising the mobile passport app by a passport control station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida's airport in 2016. Source: Airside[/caption] Earlier this year, Amadeus said that its investment arm had invested in Airside. The Madrid-based travel technology giant said it also planned to deploy some of the startup's services.

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