More investment coming into travel startups this week, with GetYourGuide landing $2 million from a string of high profile investors.
The round comes from PROfounders Capital, a European VC fund which counts Lastminute.com co-founder Brent Hoberman as one of its investors alongside Andy Phillipps (founder of Active Hotels) and Karen Hanton (founder of TopTable)
Others investing in the tour and activity marketplace service include founders of Swoodoo, Christian Saller, Wolfgang Heigl and Lars Jankowfsky.
PROfounders general partner Sean Seton-Rogers will sit on the GetYourGuide advisory board as part of the investment round.
GetYourGuide's only external investment so far had come in the form of $350,000 in 2010 from Zurich Cantonal Bank and Roland Zeller, founder of Swiss online travel agency Travel.ch.
The round comes almost a year to the day since arguably the company's biggest partnership to date, a deal to become TripAdvisor's booking partner for tours and activities featured on the user review giant.
It has also since gone on to work with Kayak to power the tours and activities search channel on the metasearch engine's mobile app.
Saller, who is now managing director of Kayak Europe after its acquisition of Swoodoo in May 2010, says:
"GetYourGuide is, hands down, the most interesting European online travel start-up that I’ve seen in recent years. A huge market, a strong team, an attractive business model and huge momentum speak for this goal-oriented and promising Swiss company."
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