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Online Travel

Bus Booking Platform Busbud Raises $9 Million to Expand

Busbud sets itself apart from other bus travel startups in both the breadth of its inventory and the markets it is going after, especially South America where bus travel is more common than the U.S.

Samantha Shankman | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Turnkey Vacation Rentals Secures Additional $3 Million in Funding

As vacation home rentals and apartment rentals go more mainstream, you can expect more vacation rental management companies, broadly similar to Turnkey Vacation Rentals, to emerge as owners seek to make the hosting process more efficient and less of a hassle.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Hipmunk Raises $20 Million in Funding But It May Not Be Enough

Hipmunk is hoping that the funding will help it avoid the fate of Room 77, which also struggled to break out of the pack, and withdrew. Hipmunk is going to keep at it for awhile, but it has a tough road ahead of it given well-funded competitors such as Kayak, TripAdvisor, Google, and Trivago.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Mozio Raises $750,000 to Make Airport Ground Transport Booking Easier

Air travel has long been the primary focus of online travel innovation, but new business models are emerging that tap into the complimentary parts of the travel experience. None have yet to capture the volume of users or profits as the air travel search and booking sites.

Samantha Shankman | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Concur Invests an Additional $5.4 Million in India Booking Site Cleartrip

Concur still has only a minority stake in Cleartrip, but clearly Concur's $68.3 million total investment in Cleartrip shows that Concur considers Cleartrip and India as a strategic investment.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Online Travel

More Soft-Landings For Failed Startups: Tripadvisor Acquires Tripbod

Another day, another Tripadvisor acquisition of a failed startup. At some point, hopefully these add up, but doesn't seem so far.

Rafat Ali | 12 years ago

Online Travel

BoatBound Raises $2.5 Million to Build out the Airbnb for Boats

In the eyes of the boating industry, BoatBound is a gateway drug for early adopters who will hopefully grow attached to the experience and become lucrative customers later in life.

Samantha Shankman | 12 years ago

Hotels

How Much Is an Airbnb Listing Really Worth?

For a company with few physical assets, Airbnb demands a high value for its listings. But this value reveals more about how the lodging economy is evolving more than it tells us about what the sharing economy leader is really worth.

Jason Clampet | 12 years ago

Online Travel

The Travel Startups Venture Investment Map: 2009-2014

The next phase of travel investment will focus a lot more on B2B than disrupting the consumer, helping existing large travel brands on the backend and also helping them reach customers more efficiently.

Rafat Ali | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Boxever Gets $6 Million in Funding and a Tigerair Deal

Airlines have long-neglected cross-sell opportunities, but in recent years they've contracted with third-parties to move things along. Boxever's funding and Tigerair deal can be seen in this context.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago