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Online Travel

Vacation Rental Management Firm Vacasa Attracts $35 Million in Funding

Professionally managed vacation rentals, when done right, offer an increased level of confidence for consumers. Vacasa's $35 million in funding is an endorsement of its growth trajectory and that of a key segment of the industry.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Lola Attracts $8 Million in New Funding and Adds Online Travel Veterans to Board

Still-unproven Lola, the travel startup, has some online travel heavy hitters as co-founders, investors and board members. If the premise to involve human travel agents in trip-planning doesn't work out then the team can always pivot toward something else.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Airlines

JetBlue Launches Venture Capital Subsidiary to Invest in Travel Startups

Don't expect JetBlue Technology Ventures to start throwing big bucks into travel startups. Instead, the airline is looking for some brand benefit from getting involved in the startup scene and to get access to some new technologies along the way.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Pan-African Booking Site Travelstart Attracts $40 Million in Funding

Whether hospitality or booking, Africa presents an enormous opportunity for first-movers right now.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Hotels

A New LeisureLink Attracts $17 Million in Venture Funding

Clearstone Venture Partners claims that funding LeisureLink is a better investment than in Airbnb or HomeAway. That may be a frivolous boast but what's clear is that a lot of people are going to make a ton of money on the business and distribution side of the vacation rental and alternative lodging industry.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Skyscanner’s First Venture Funding Since 2007 Came After Priceline Took A Look

With Skyscanner's new funding and ample cash, the company sees itself as an acquirer over the next few months. Skyscanner believes a few modest acquisitions, increased marketing, and continued organic growth should do the trick. There won't be any quick, easy answers as this looks like a strategy for the long haul.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Skyscanner Raises $192 Million in Funding at $1.6 Billion Valuation

Skyscanner has more or less been a bootstrapper in metasearch, growing mostly organically and profitably for the last seven years. But its challenge has been how to get to the next level. It's unclear how much of a difference this latest funding round will make since a chunk of it will be used as a payout to existing investors.

Dennis Schaal | 10 years ago

Announcements

How We Got off the Addiction to Venture Capital and Created Our Own Way to Profits

This is our 4000-word story as we head into 2016, and hopefully lessons for other companies trying to create their own whitespace in this noisy business world.

Rafat Ali | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Lyft Is Chasing After $1 Billion in New Investment

Lyft will be giving up significant control to raise this billion — much more than its main rival does for the same amount of money.

Eric Newcomer | 10 years ago

Hotels

Airbnb Confirms $1.5 Billion Funding Round

Airbnb has an ample amount of privately raised cash to burn. That whole IPO thing is still on the agenda but off in the future.

Jason Clampet | 11 years ago