Onfly Raises Funds for Brazilian Business Travel: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: The lobby of the Blue Tree Premium Manaus, a hotel in Manaus, Brazil, that's available for booking by business travelers via travel startup Onfly. Manaus Hotels
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This week, travel startups announced more than $176 million in funding. Concepts included corporate travel, hotel robots, and channel management for vacation rentals.
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 $176 million in funding.
On Thursday, Skift reported that TripActions, the business travel management solution, had closed a $155 million Series E funding round. The California startup has secured a total of $790 million, and the company claims it's now valued at $5 billion.
>>Yunji Technology, a Beijing-based maker of robots, has closed an undisclosed amount for a Series C financing round, led by Qiming Venture Partners. Past investors include Tencent Investment, AlphaX Partners, Lenovo Capital, Lanting Capital, HNA Tourism, and Trip.com Group.
The company has raised more than $77 million (500 million Chinese renminbi) in total, ChinaTravelNews reported.
Some China-based properties in the Mercure and InterContinental brands have used the robots. Hote
