Investments

News / Online

Sonder valued at $1B following $210M Series D round

By Jill Menze | July 11, 2019

The round puts the hospitality brand at $400 million in total funding and a valuation of more than $1 billion. Read More

News / Startups

Cozycozy lands €4M in funding to launch accommodation search service

By Linda Fox | July 4, 2019

France-based accommodation startup Cozycozy is a metasearch for hotels, vacation rentals and other types of stay. Read More

News / Startups

Travel payment startup ConnexPay raises $7M Series A round

By Mitra Sorrells | June 28, 2019

Travel payment solution provider ConnexPay has raised $7 million in a Series A round led by BIP Capital. Read More

News / Startups

TripActions raises again, $250M round going to aggressive growth plan

By Mitra Sorrells | June 27, 2019

This latest investment comes less than eight months after TripActions' Series C round last November which brought in $154 million. Read More

News / Technology

Travel payments, part 4: Hopes and hurdles for startups

By Mitra Sorrells | June 24, 2019

In part four of our payments month them we talk to investors and entrepreneurs about the challenges and opportunities for startups in this space. Read More

News / Online

VIDEO: Awaze on a vacation rental sector that is growing up

By Kevin May | June 19, 2019

Henrik Kjellberg explains how the wider vacation rental market is adapting to consumer trends, what Awaze is doing to protect itself from the competition and where the sector needs to evolve Read More

News / Online

MagicStay raises €3M to expand business travel accommodation rental service

By Kevin May | June 19, 2019

The capital from representatives at Simmons & Simmons and Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking brings the total put into the vacation rental booking platform for corporate travelers... Read More

News / Online

GuestReady eyes future acquisitions with new $6M Series A funding

By Mitra Sorrells | June 18, 2019

GuestReady is planning future expansion boosted by a new investment of $6 million. Read More

Interview / Online

In The Big Chair LIVE - Stephan Ekbergh of Travelstart

By Kevin May | June 12, 2019

The group's CEO is a DJ-turned-entrepreneur having founded brands such as MrJet in Sweden and, more recently alongside overseeing Travelstart, investing in other startups. Read More

News / Online

Booking Holdings funds part of $180M round into South Korean hotel site Yanolja

By Kevin May | June 11, 2019

The South Korea-based hotel booking website has now secured a total of $242 million in funding after landing the latest Series D round. Read More

Opinion / Technology

Collaboration, not competition, can make the travel industry a digital leader

By Rom Hendler - InnoVel | June 7, 2019

Travel, intangible and evolving, is a perfect example of a product particularly vulnerable to marketing myopia. So we should fix it, as an industry together. Read More

News / Startups

Mindsay adds $10M in Series A funding to expand chatbot service

By Linda Fox | May 29, 2019

Paris-based chatbot startup also took on a brand name after starting out as Destygo. Read More

News / Online

Ctrip sees huge potential in customized travel for growing affluent segment

By Linda Fox | May 24, 2019

Research from Ctrip and COTRI reveals the potential in the growing high-net income traveler segment. Read More

News / Online

VIDEO: When OYO Rooms bought @Leisure - anatomy of a deal

By Kevin May | May 24, 2019

@Leisure's CEO Tobias Wann, who will become CEO for vacation homes at OYO Global, agreed to speak to PhocusWire during the recent Phocuswright Europe event in Amsterdam. Read More