Startups

Bluesmart stands apart from crowd-funded peers in its transparency and competency, two things that don't always go hand in hand.

These are the newest travel startups from AngelList vying for travelers’ interest and investors’ attention.

It's another chapter in the convergence of everything: Expedia, the online travel agency, invested in the Alice guest-experience app as Expedia tries to get deeper into providing technology services for hotels. Everyone's doing it -- or will soon.

Given the headlines, while Rome2Rio, Captain Train and Loco2 are trying to get the message out that they are just as hot as travel-startup peer GoEuro, in contrast Hot Hotels is getting the word out that it will avoid some of the business model pitfalls of HotelTonight.

These are the newest travel startups from AngelList vying for travelers’ interest and investors’ attention.

If transportation complexity creates opportunity, then GoEuro, flush with another $45 million in funding, has an open road ahead.

These are the newest travel startups from AngelList vying for travelers’ interest and investors’ attention.

These are the newest travel startups from AngelList vying for travelers’ interest and investors’ attention.

There's no magic to making a startup work, but there are definitely ways to radically improve your chances.

The rest of the travel industry -- or at least the big players that matter -- have caught up to HotelTonight, the first mover in the same-day mobile hotel-booking space. Heavily funded, HotelTonight is seeking an exit that makes its investors whole.