A lot of people, including investors in Gogobot and Delta Air Lines management, are betting on social travel — or at least playing around with it.
Social travel: Gogobot gets $15M, new Delta Air Lines app on Facebook
November 3, 2011 By 5 Comments
QuickMobile attracts $1.3M in funding for expansion
November 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In what might be considered a meeting of the minds, meetings- and events-app provider QuickMobile attracted nearly $1.3 million in funding from Vancity, a major Canadian credit union.
Room 77 begins move into Asia
September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Expansion time at Room 77 with it making the most of its recent fundraising to make a strategic move and start featuring hotels in Asia.
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TrustYou attracts $5M in funding and acquires partner ReviewAnalyst
September 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Social media monitoring firm TrustYou picked up $5 million in funding and recently crowned “strategic partner” ReviewAnalyst, too.
Hopper aims to inspire with $8M in funding and 600 servers
August 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
With $8 million in new funding from Atlas Venture and Brightspark Ventures, travel startup Hopper hopes to continue building its own servers and to bridge the travel inspiration gap.
Why travel startups always seem to suffer from the same problems
August 10, 2011 By 35 Comments
I love reviewing the Tnooz TLabs Showcase submissions and, perhaps rather morbidly, the subsequent 12-month follow-up TLabs Reprise, where we discover what went wrong (or right).
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Tripping receives seed funding of up to $1 million
July 11, 2011 By 6 Comments
Tripping, a social travel site connecting local hosts with travelers, received seed funding to fuel global expansion and marketing, the company says.
Is big funding the only way to go for travel startups?
June 20, 2011 By 15 Comments
Travel, tourism and hospitality has always been a wonderful arena for entrepreneurs and other companies to play in.
Wimdu captures mammoth $90M funding round for apartment rental push
June 15, 2011 By 19 Comments
Looks like investment bragging rights belong to apartment rental service Wimdu after confirming an eye-watering $90 million funding round ahead of rival Airbnb making its own deal official.
Room 77 gets $10.5M round from ITA Software funders
June 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
The view from Room 77 just turned brighter with the securing of a $10.5 million series B funding round led by General Catalyst Partners.
