TravelLocal Raises $3 Million in Play on Tailored Trips: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: A scene from a TravelLocal tour "Adventurous Costa Rica," involving a hike by the Arenal Volcano in Arenal National Park. TravelLocal, a travel startup based in Bristol, UK, has merged with Berlin-based Trip.me. TravelLocal
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This week TravelLocal and Trip.me raised funding for using digital tools to make travel agents more efficient, XOKind raised for its travel booking app Una, and MyBeezBox raised to help hospitality companies with online cross-sells.
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 $7 million in funding.
>>TravelLocal, a travel startup based in Bristol, UK, merged with Berlin-based Trip.me and raised a $3.4 million (£2.5 million) Series A extension. The two startups have together raised $18 million (£13 million) to date.
A stop on a TravelLocal arranged tour of Cuba. Source: TravelLocal.Active Partners and Gresham House Ventures led the extension.
The combined company will be an online travel agency focused on "tailor-made" vacation packages. Consumers fill ou
