Sensible Weather Raises $12 Million to Hedge Against Rainy Vacations: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: Climate data and risk analytics platform Sensible Weather will expand into international markets. Unsplash / Joey Huang
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This week, a climate risk technology company has raised more cash to develop its Weather Guarantee product, while Relay plans to put more of its delivery robots into hotels.
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 jd@skift.com if you have funding news.This week, travel startups announced more than $61 million in funding.
>>Sensible Weather, a climate risk technology company, has raised $12 million in Series A funding.
San Francisco-based Infinity Ventures led the round, with participation from Certares Ventures, existing investors Wonder Ventures and Group1001, as well as executives from Airbnb, Pacaso, Plaid and Toast.
The startup offers a “Weather Guarantee” to consumers when booking holidays. If rain is forecast, Sensible Weather automatically sends a reimbursement, with payments based on the number of hours the experience is negatively impacted by weather.
It will now use the funding to recruit
