Dana Dunne, CEO of OdigeO, the largest European OTA, explains how he is leading the evolution of the different travel brands managed by OdigeO from a flight specialist to a traveller centric company, levering its technological DNA to accompany the traveller throughout all the travel journey.
The web was designed to be a document-sharing system. As a result, much of the data it contains is text-based, and has limited provisions for machine-readable, structured data that can be easily organized for humans at scale. The notable exception is extensible markup language (XML), which is primarily used by developers for business purposes. The [...]
Hospitality data intelligence provider OTA Insight has secured a major funding round - $20 million - in a bid to grow the company faster on a global basis. The round was led by Eight Roads Ventures and saw participation from F-Prime Capital Partners and some of its previous, unnamed backers. The U.K.-based company was created [...]
La Sociedad de Capital Riesgo Travel Tech I ha invertido en Servantrip para posicionarlo como el consolidador B2B de traslados y chofer por horas de referencia en el sector de viajes a nivel internacional. Servantrip, a través de su tecnología propietaria, proporciona a las agencias de viajes, tour operadores, líneas aéreas o bancos de camas, [...]
Dentro de su participación en el Travel Innovation Summit organizado por Top Seeds Lab, con el apoyo del Grupo Jumbotours, asistimos a la determinación y entusiasmo emprendedor de Pol Perpiñan, quien con tan solo 15 años no rehuye el reto de ayudar a transformar la indutria turística, con un proyecto centrado en el alquiler colaborativo de vehiculos [...]
Busbud, the online marketplace that enables global travelers to shop for and book intercity bus tickets on over 1.4 million bus routes worldwide, today announced the close of US$11 million in series B funding (approximately CAD$14 million). The round is led by iNovia Capital and includes new investors Teralys, Claridge and Plaza Ventures, as well [...]
Joymode, an innovator in the movement from ownership to access, today announced the closing of a $14.4 million Series A investment led by Naspers through its Naspers Ventures division with participation from previous investors. Also announced today, Mike Katz of Naspers Ventures, has joined Joymode’s Board of Directors. Joymode members can access thousands of products [...]
London-based CityStasher is building what it calls an ‘Airbnb for luggage’, a network of brick and mortar businesses across Europe that will store your luggage for a few hours after you have checked out or are waiting to check into your travel accommodation. To help with this mission, CityStasher has raised $1.1 million in seed [...]
Blacklane, a chauffeured car service, received “the largest investment round” it has ever received. Given that its last round was $20 million, we estimate that this Series D round was at least $40 million. The Berlin-based company said investors included the Al Fahim family business in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Daimler Mobility Services, and [...]