Bizzabo and Gather Raise Millions for Event Tech: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: An image from the HubSpot Inbound 2018 conference in Boston. Hubspot used the services of meetings tech startup Bizzabo to run its event. Bizzabo raised $27 million in Series D funding this week. HubSpot
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Two event tech startups, Bizzabo and Gather, have raised millions in funding to help businesses and restaurants manage and grow events. The companies are benefiting from a 2019 Megatrend that Skift summarized as "real-world experiences gain value in an era of tech burnout."
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.
This week travel startups announced more than $119 million in venture capital equity funding.
Earlier this week we covered Airbnb's Series B lead investment in Lyric, a U.S. short-term rental brand, about $75 million of which was venture equity.
We also noted that Splitty, an Israel-based hotel booking platform, raised $6.75 million in Series A funding led by Fosun RZ Capital and joined by other investors including Cockpit Innovation.
Here are other companies that announced this week that they had raised funding.
>>Bizzabo, a developer of event software, raised $27 million in Series D funding.
Viola Growth led the round, with Next47, Pilot Growth, and Maor Investments participating. The round brings Bizzabo’s total funding to $56 million.
Bizzabo aims to make it easier to create, manage, and execute every aspect of events for companies like HubSpot, GainSight, Dow Jones, and Teach for America.
The Tel Aviv-based startup, which was founded in
