This Week in Travel Startup Funding: Concur Leads $9.5 Million Investment in Hotel Tech App StayNTouch

Dan Peltier

February 4th, 2016 at 5:30 AM EST

Photo Credit: StayNTouch is a cloud-based property management system for hotel staff and guests. StayNTouch

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This week's travel startup funding, all in one place.

Each week we roundup the latest crop of travel startups that have received or announced funding that week. The total amount raised this week was $49.5 million. Here is one company that announced it raised funding this week. Skift also covered Pan-African booki

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