The New Machine-Learning Booking Tool for Road Warriors: Travel Startup Funding This Week
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New tech is going to vastly improve the efficiency of booking business trips, selling tours, and running short-term rentals. But it's too soon to know if these three freshly funded companies, in particular, will pull off the trick.
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. The companies we note this week have together raised more than $17 million.
>>Comtravo, a Berlin-based startup, has received $9.7 million (or 8.5 million euro) in a Series A funding round after two years of development. The venture capital firms Project A and Creandum led the round.
The startup aims to streamline travel booking for small- and medium-sized businesses. It uses software that takes advantage of natural language recognition and machine learning tools to speed up the booking process for travelers and managers.
For example, a traveler sends Comtravo an email, Skype or text message such as “I need
