Breeze Airways Raises $200 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: David Neeleman's new airline is called Breeze Airways. Breeze Airways / Cean Orrett
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Travel startups raised more than $390 million in funding this week for concepts such as launching a budget airline, enabling influencers to sell trips, and making it easier to book European campsites, Korean hotels, and Saudi short-term 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 $393 million in funding.
>>Breeze Airways, a budget airline in the U.S., closed $200 million in additional Series B equity funding.
Entities managed by BlackRock and Knighthead Capital Management led the round. The startup, led by former JetBlue founder David Neeleman, has raised more than $300 million in total.
The low-cost carrier will first serve smaller U.S. cities, such as Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky. The goal is to fill gaps left by the larger network carriers. For more context, read this analysis piece in Airline Weekly.
>>Hopper, an online travel company, said it had raised $175 million Series G round of equity financing, led by private equity firm GPI. The investment set up the Montreal-based company for an eventual move of going public, perhaps next year. See Skift's story on Hopper's latest financing.
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