Duffel Raises $21.5 Million for Distribution Tech: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: A photo of key team members for Duffel, a travel startup that has been backed by Benchmark, a famous investment firm. Steve Domin, co-founder and CEO of Duffel, is in the center wearing shorts. Duffel
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This week travel startups GuestReady Group, Duffel, MagicStay, and Fairjungle announced more than $32 million in funding.
Travel Startup Funding This Week
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This week travel startups announced more than $32 million in funding. On Thursday Skift released its list of the top travel startups worldwide to watch in 2019. Here's the latest funding news, below:
>>Duffel, a creator of a travel booking system, has raised $21.5 million in Series A funding.
Benchmark, Blossom Capital, and Index Ventures participated. The startup raised $4.7 million in seed funding last year.
Duffel, founded in 2017 and based in London, hasn't launched its service to the public yet, so it remains hard to describe. It's a graduate of the Y Combinator startup incubator program.
Archaic software and processes underpin the travel sector, said Steve Domin, co-founder and CEO of Duffel. "We are reinventing the u
