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Online Travel

Hotel Search Site Top10 Closes $8 Million Funding Round

Top10.com fits into the travel industry curation trend as its recommendations are geared to help people looking for a room combat information overload. It's a crowded space, though, with an over-abundance of hotel search and booking sites to compete with.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Online Travel

AudioCompass to Use $400K in Seed Funding For Tour Guide Expansion

AudioCompass is certainly off to a strong start in India, and importantly its audio tour guide apps work offline. A challenge for the startup going forward is that it seems like there would be little barrier to entry among would-be competitors.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Online Travel

GuestDriven Attracts $3 Million in Funding For Mobile Personalization Tool

The GuestDriven platform intersects two unstoppable trends -- personalization and mobile. The trick is in providing guests with personalized tips and perks on their mobile devices without invading their privacy or bombarding them with advertisements in the process.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Startups

Where Are All the European Travel Startups Based?

For being one of the biggest source markets of travelers for the rest of the world, Europe still has a long way to go to build up travel startups into larger, long-lasting and successful companies. The biggest successes may end up coming out of Russia rather than the rest of Europe.

Rafat Ali | 12 years ago

Online Travel

The Top 31 Most Heavily Venture-Funded Startups In Travel

The global travel industry is going through a lot of disruption, and the biggest sectors include the sharing economy and ground transportation, as well as one large potential winner in the hotel booking sector.

Rafat Ali | 12 years ago

Online Travel

GetYourGuide Attracts Online Travel Heavyweights and $4.5 Million In Series A Funding

Although a stretch, GetYourGuide has frequently likened its desire to ramp up and aggregate the most tours and activities it can for each destination to that of Booking.com. Along with the founder of Qunar, GetYourGuide now has a Booking.com veteran, its former CEO, on board to help in the tour and activities company's expansion efforts.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Business Travel

Amadeus Launches Venture Fund To Invest In Travel Startups

Amadeus has long been involved in incubating startup-like ventures within the company, but will now do so with a more deliberate strategy to forge closer relationships with young companies that it feels are worth associating with.

Dennis Schaal | 13 years ago

Online Travel

Yapta Adds Another $2 Million to Series D Round, Led by Amadeus

The additional investment will allow Yapta to go deeper into corporate travel, and take advantages from its relationship with Concur to deliver savings to corporate travel bookers.

Jason Clampet | 13 years ago

Hotels

Vacation Rentals Startups Are Hot, But How Real Is the Market?

The presence of established players such as HomeAway and TripAdvisor, plus a market that isn't as addressable as it might appear, will make the vacation rental startup sector the next bubble.

Dennis Schaal | 13 years ago

Airlines

Sequoia Capital Invests Big in Skyscanner and Values It At $800 Million

Sequoia Capital's investment in Skyscanner is the latest huge endorsement of travel metasearch. But could a pivot toward hotels and a possible rebranding that goes beyond airfares be in Skyscanner's future?

Dennis Schaal | 13 years ago