MyVR Raises $6 Million for Rental Property Software: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: Left to right: MyVR cofounders Markus Nordvic, Mike Stachowiak, and Jonathan Murray. The startup is a vacation rental property management tech company that has raised $6.1 million. MyVR
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Two startups aiming to help vacation rental property managers, one that helps hoteliers market their neighborhood's attractions to guests, and one that helps give business travelers cash back on purchases together raised $18 million this week.
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding.
Three side notes in travel-related funding, first:
>>Lyft, the ride-hailing app competitor to Uber, said it has raised a $1.5 billion round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG investment unit.
>>Lilium, a flying taxi startup, raised $90 million in a Series B funding. Read Skift's takedown piece on the flying taxi hype.
>>Boom Technology, which intends to create a supersonic jet for passenger travel, received a $10 million investment from Japan Airlines. See this story from earlier this week.
Now, for our focus on startups for online travel. The total raised this week was more
