Mexico’s GuruHotel Raises $2.1 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Caption: Casa Astral Luxury Hotel on Holbox Island in Mexico is a customer of the Mexico-based travel startup GuruHotel. Source: GuruHotel.
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This week, travel startups announced more than $200 million in funding, including GuruHotel, a startup that helps smaller hotels accept direct bookings and market their properties.
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 $TKTK million in funding.
>>AvantStay, which helps manage vacation rentals and streamline group travel, raised $160 million in fresh funding. Tarsadia Investments and 3L Capital co-led the Series B round. See Skift's report.
>>Mews, a maker of property management software for hotels, has raised an undisclosed amount of investment from Salesforce Ventures, the venture arm of the enterprise tech giant. Read Skift's story: "Salesforce-Backed Mews Shifts Hotel Tech Focus From Room to Guest."
>>GuruHotel, a travel startup based in Mexico, raised $2.1 million in a seed round. Anthemis Group, Magic Fund, 500 Startups, Shru
