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Saudi Startup FlyAkeed Raises $15.2M Series A Funding

2023-08-23 by Phil Butler

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Saudi Arabia-based travel tech startup FlyAkeed has just raised $15.2 million (SAR 57 million) in Series A funding.

Tags: Bassam AlMohammadi, booking startups, fin tech, flight meta search, flight meta searcn, flight search, FlyAkeed, Sanabil Investments, Saudi startups, Skyscanner, tech startups, travel tech

PhocusWire Releases 2021 Hot 25 List of Startups

2020-11-27 by Phil Butler

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Each November PhocusWire has begun the Phocuswright Conference with the release of our annual Hot 25 Startups. Here is the list for 2021.

Tags: Air Doctor, Anyplace, Beachy, BeRightBack, Buser, CityGuyd, Dream Drive, Entrada Insights, Kyte, Maidbot, Pace, PhocusWire, PhocusWire Hot 25, PhoCusWright conference, Rebound Travel, Salesforce, startups, tech startups, Tentrr, travel startups, Tripkicks, Troop Travel, Trueface, Volara, Vouch, Wajaj, Zamna

French hotel groups seed invest in RoomChecking

2017-04-28 by Argophilia Travel News

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Astotel Group, Maurice Hurand Hotels and BPI follow into AccorHotels’s footsteps, investing in hotel technology as the future of hotel management, and offer 750,000 EUR late seed-funding to RoomChecking, a hotel communications, housekeeping, and maintenance system startup.

Tags: Astotel Group, BPI, hospitality startups, hotel services, hotels, Jonathan Wiezman, Maurice Hurand Hotels, RoomChecking, tech startups

Morten Lund to Kick Off WITovation Entrepreneur Bootcamp

2010-10-06 by Phil Butler

WITovation Entrepreneur Bootcamp

Innovation in online travel is powered by ideas and technology. Key investor Morten Lund is scheduled to kick off the inaugural WITovation Entrepreneur Bootcamp in Singapore on October 18th. The much anticipated camp will serve as a springboard for technology innovators, as well as a think thank for the WIT conference.

Tags: Everbread Ltd., Morten Lund, online travel, Skype, startup convention, tech startups, Tnooz, Tradeshift Ltd., travel, travel news, travel tech, WITovation Entrepreneur Bootcamp

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