Busbud Raises $11 Million for Intercity Bus Booking: Travel Startup Funding This Week
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This week, travel startups Busbud, KKday, GreenCloud, and Virdee announced more than $102 million in funding.
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 $102 million in funding.
>>Earlier this week Skift reported that KKday, a travel experiences booking agency based in Taipei, closed $75 million in new funding. Cool Japan Fund and the National Development Fund led the round.
>>We also reported that TST Capital, an investment firm owned by Rajiv Trivedi, the former president of La Quinta Hotels, joined other investors in a $2 million seed round in Virdee, a virtual concierge service for hotels.
>>Busbud, a startup building software for selling intercity coach tickets, has closed an $11 million ($15 million Canadian) Series C round of financing.
Canadian Business Growth Fund and Investissement Quebec led the round. New investors also include Export Development Canada, BDC Capital, and Singapore-based K3 Ventures The Montreal
