FlixMobility Raises $650 Million for Intercity Bus and Rail: Travel Startup Funding This Week


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As the recovery takes hold in many countries, investors are clocking startups like raptors track mice. Travel startups announced $657 million in funding this week.

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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 more than $657 million in funding. >>FlixMobility, a Munich-based transport startup that runs the FlixBus intercity bus brand and the FlixTrain rail brand, said this week it had raised $650 million in equity and debt financing from investors. The deal placed a valuation of more than $3 billion on the company. Details, here. Skift's profile of FlixMobility from last month, here. >>Travello, a travel startup that helps like-minded travelers connect and discover tours and activities, has raised $5 million ($6.5 million Australian) in a Series A round of funding. The Australia-based startup attracted several investors, such as Jim Goldburg, the co-founder of travel agency giant Flight Centre, and Andrew McEvoy, the former boss of Tourism Australia. The company's acquisition of t