FlixMobility Raises $650 Million for Intercity Bus and Rail: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: As the recovery takes hold, FlixMobility, the owner of the FlixBus and FlixTrain brands, has closed a mammoth round of debt and equity funding. FlixMobility
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As the recovery takes hold in many countries, investors are clocking startups like raptors track mice. Travel startups announced $657 million in funding this week.
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 $657 million in funding.
>>FlixMobility, a Munich-based transport startup that runs the FlixBus intercity bus brand and the FlixTrain rail brand, said this week it had raised $650 million in equity and debt financing from investors.
The deal placed a valuation of more than $3 billion on the company. Details, here.
Skift's profile of FlixMobility from last month, here.
>>Travello, a travel startup that helps like-minded travelers connect and discover tours and activities, has raised $5 million ($6.5 million Australian) in a Series A round of funding.
The Australia-based startup attracted several investors, such as Jim Goldburg, the co-founder of travel agency giant Flight Centre, and Andrew McEvoy, the former boss of Tourism Australia.
The company's acquisition of t
