Vacation Rentals and Luxury Trips: Travel Startups Raise $106 Million
Photo Credit: Indie Campers operates in Europe, North American, and Oceania. Indie Campers
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Niche vacation rental platforms are still raising money, just not quite as often as during pandemic times.
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.Short-term rental platforms have not been raising money in 2024 quite as often as last year. But they made a bit of a comeback this week with two niche platforms getting nearly $50 million in funding.
One is a growing platform for renting camper vans — interestingly, a much smaller U.S. competitor shut down in the last year for lack of funding. The other is for renting “handpicked” vacation rentals in Europe, a startup founded by several former Airbnb employees.
Six travel startups announced fundraises in the past week totaling over $100 million.
Indie Campers: $38.1 MillionIndie Campers, a platform for renting RVs and camper vans, has raised $38.1 million (€35 million).
Indico Capital Partners led the round, with support from Cedros Capital and GED Ventures.
The Lisbon-based startup says it rents 7,000 of its own vehicles as well as others owned by individual and professional hosts. The vehicles are av
