7 of the Most Interesting Travel Tech Startups Raising Capital in 2022

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.

Skift kept an eye through much of 2022 on which travel tech startups raised money, documented in this weekly startup funding roundup. 

Anything related to short-term rentals got the most frequent funding, but there was a wide variety of other startups that raise venture capital throughout the year despite a declining economic forecast. 

Below is an outline of some of the most interesting travel tech startups, in alphabetical order, that received funding in 2022. 

>>Deal Engine raised $5.3 million — not a lot compared to some of the others in this list — but the Miami-based startup is tackling a problem that’s a notorious headache for airlines and their customers: post-booking flight changes. Historically, airlines contract expensive call centers to deal with many of the change requests by customers, an issue that became unbearable during the pandemic.

Volaris told Skift that it starts the process with software by Sabre, but that only covers about half of the issues, and the rest historically were transferred to call centers. With the supplemental Deal Engine software, fewer than 10 percent of