Amenitiz Raises $30 Million to Push Software to Hotel Sector’s Long Tail
Photo Caption: Kachi Lodge, a luxury and eco-friendly lodge standing on the Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia, is a customer of hotel software vendor Amenitiz. Source: Amenitiz.
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Amenitiz joins a wave of startups democratizing online selling tools for hoteliers. The Barcelona-based startup brings e-commerce tools to small hotel companies in a way that's similar to how Shopify helps small retailers.
Amenitiz, which brings e-commerce tools to small hotels, said on Tuesday it had closed a $30 million Series A round of funding.
Eight Roads, a venture capital investor, led the round in the Barcelona-based startup, which has raised around $38 million since 2019.
Amenitiz is part of a wave of companies offering cloud-based software to help small hotel companies sell online, including Cloudbeds, Hotelrunner, Clock, Yanolja's Ezee, SiteMinder, and Oracle Hospitality's Opera Cloud.
The startup is like a Swiss Army knife of services, offering independent hoteliers help with "channel management," or making its inventory and rates available to online resel