Package Vacation Platform GoFro Raises $10 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week


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Startups in India and Turkey have benefited from investment by venture capital firms located outside those countries. That's a trend that's a mixed blessing.

Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. The total raised this week was more than $22 million. That $22 million figure doesn't include the $250 million that the India-based hotel network OYO Rooms said it raised in a round led by Softbank — news that Skift will cover separately. >>GoFro, an India-based platform for customers to book vacation packages and pay agents to plan itineraries, said it had raised $10 million in Series B funding led by HIS, a Japanese travel agency. MakeMyTrip, the online travel giant