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Airlines

GateGuru picks up $500k in new funding to go broader than airport info

Car rentals seem a natural fit for GateGuru as its mobile fans work their ways through the airport. Hotels would be a no-brainer, too.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Investors bet $15 million more on CouchSurfing’s sharing economy

If Airbnb- and CouchSurfing-type accommodations cause concern about their legalities and risks, these issues are not dissuading important investors.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Consumer travel mega-site-in-waiting Hopper raises $12 million more second round

Destination discovery/planning tool is a startup minefield & few have cracked it. Hopper's goal of using Big Data to catalogue travel flight and destination data is ambitious & admirable, though they're taken a lot of time and money for it.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

NextGreatPlace vacation membership club secures $3.5 million in funding

NextGreatPlace hopes to be the next great vacation club, but as in other trendy endeavors, it will have to prove that the model works.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Carpooling.com gets $10 million from Daimler to expand into the U.S.

Car sharing services face their biggest challenges from gaining legitimacy from wary consumers as well as major players, such as the insurance industry. Backing from a car manufacturer goes a long way towards improving the odds on both of those.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Hotel reputation software firm Revinate gets $14.5M funding round

Good competition in the space from likes of ReviewPro, TrustYou & others and then generalist social media tools, this money will surely be needed to scale/compete. Rich Barton gold dust helps too.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Photo startups bloat: Everpix trying with $1 million funding to manage your photo bloat

Real need to manage photo bloat, lots of startups trying that, see Techcrunch's own "photo" tag for the bloat in the startupland. Jetpac is a travel industry native, and trying something similar in the vertical.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Jetpac gets $2.4 million in funding — social travel or album peering?

Pictures are worth 1,000 words and there seems to be that many social travel apps and sites. Most of them feature photo boards and images, and Jetpac is one of the latest entries.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

OTA Yatra may have raised $14.5 million in Series D funding

This should help refill Yatra's coffers, as the investment amount if correct is just a few million shy of what it spent to acquire Travelocity's Travelguru.com last week

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Social-travel site CasaHop takes big step with $1.2M in funding

CasaHop might be called social tech rather than social travel because it is a heavy tech play in the home-exchange arena.

Skift | 12 years ago