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Tracxn – Analyst Notes # 1259 – Online Travel

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Analyst Picks

  • AbiliTrek (2017, Bellingham) – Online platform for booking hotels
    Market: Online Travel > Accommodation > Hotels > Booking
  • FINEWAY (2015, Munich, $10.8M) – AI-powered personal travel assistant for holiday bookings
    Market: Online Travel > Holiday Packages > Concierge

Funding Rounds

Series C, $105.5M
51tour (1996, Shanghai, $105.5M) – Travel agency for outbound tourism

Investors: CITIC Capital, Haier Capital, Poly Yuan Investment, Legend Holdings, Legend Capital, Yonghua Capital

Series B, $10M
Vntrip.vn (2014, Hanoi, $13M) – Online travel and hotel booking site

Investors: Hendale Capital

Series A, $8.3M
FINEWAY (2015, Munich, $10.8M) – AI-powered personal travel assistant for holiday bookings

Investors: Bayern Kapital, Mairdumont Ventures, Axel Springer SE

Series A, $6.1M
MyVR (2012, San Francisco, $7.5M) – Online vacation rental marketing software

Investors: True Ventures, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Paul Buchheit, Clem Bason, Chris Dixon, Don Hutchinson, Ben Boyer, Alex Rampell, Tod Sacerdoti

Seed, $4.0M
TravelNest (2014, Edinburgh, $4.0M) – Channel manager for vacation rentals

Investors: Pentech, Mangrove Capital Partners, Frontline Ventures

Seed, $1.6M
Zeelo (2016, London, $2.0M) – Coach ride sharing

Investors: InMotion, Kane Pirie

Seed
Itilite (2017, Bangalore) – Rewards based discovery platform for business travel bookings

Investors: Matrix Partners India

Seed
Mistay (2016, Gurgaon) – Online hotel booking platform that allows users to book hotel rooms based on time slots

Investors: Axilor Ventures

Series A
One night (2015, New York City) – Mobile app to book same night stays

Investors: Sansiri

Series B
Muniao Duanzu (2012, Beijing, $9.7M) – P2P Vacation Rental Platform

Investors: Plum Ventures, Inno Angel Fund

M&A

  • Airbnb acquires Accomable to offer home rentals for disabled travelers Reuters
  • Skyscanner acquires social content platform Twizoo Angel News Newsletter
  • Airbnb acquires ad tech startup AdBasis TechCrunch
  • Sojern Acquires Adphorus to Accelerate Facebook Adoption for the Travel Industry PR Newswire
  • Blibli makes another online travel agent play with Indonesia Flight acquisition Starter Incubator
  • Travelstart starts to take ownership of its hotel inventory Tnooz
  • ATCORE acquired by Inflexion Private Equity Travel Weekly
  • Ctrip relaunches Trip.com as its English-language travel agency brand ChinaTravelNews
  • Thales buys Cambridge radar tech pioneer to boost drone surveillance Business Weekly
  • lastminute com : announces the acquisition of hotelscan to expand its metasearch business into other verticals 4-Traders

IPO

  • British car insurer Sabre seeks 213 million pounds listing in London Reuters
  • Expect Airbnb to go public within the next couple of years, investor says CNBC
  • Sabre Insurance Prices IPO For GBP575 Million Market Capitalisation (ALLIPO) LSE Spreads
  • Hudson files for initial public offering Frontier Magazine

New Fund Launch

  • Rented.com Announces $125 Million Rented Capital Fund Providing Guaranteed Income to Rental Property Owners Business Wire

New Product Announcement

  • OYO launches Home Management Service to tap second homes, Indiatimes
  • Cathay Pacific to introduce Wi-Fi on A330s, 777s ATWOnline
  • ixigo unveils voice-based travel assistant at world’s largest travel conference Travel And Tour World
  • Hotels.ng launches mobile app to ease the process of finding and booking hotelsInnovation-village
  • RateGain brings real-time, big data intelligence to airline pricing Financial News
  • JRRNY Launches RangeInfluence.com, Bridging the Gap Between Travel Influencers and Brands PR Newswire
  • Kontron meets new challenges in Embedded Computing with NXP Layerscape Arm-based Processors PressReleasePoint
  • Kontron presents scalable IoT solutions powered by Microsoft Azure PressReleasePoint
  • Kontron presents FusionView Industrial Monitor PressReleasePoint
  • Kontron Integrates Pica8 Nos on New 100G Symkloud Platform for Multiple Nfv Core, Edge and Access Solutions Business Wire
  • Travelport Worldwide : launches PCI DSS Certification Wizard Tool 4-Traders
  • Game On. Crave Games Platform to Entertain Hotel Guests and Create New Revenue Streams Hospitality Net
  • Mystifly Releases Next-gen Airfare Consolidation Platform for a Hassle Free Experience for Travel Partners PR Newswire
  • KEYPR Now Live at Fairmont Miramar Hospitality Net
  • Mobile app startups %2D Hoof, Lookaround, Skyhour Tnooz
  • Routier Launches Innovative Guest and Staff Engagement Platform in the U.S. Hospitality Net
  • Byond Launching End-to-end 360/AR/VR Publishing Platform Virtual Reality Reporter
  • Panasonic Introduces Giant Leap In Inflight Connectivity As EUTELSAT 172B Enters Service PR Newswire

New Geo Entry

Business Partnership

  • Ctrip com International : and Big Bus Tours Signs Strategic Agreement 4-Traders
  • Expedia and G6 Hospitality Form Strategic Technology and Marketing PartnershipBusiness Wire
  • Idea Money partners with redBus to enable bus ticket bookings for users newKerala.com

Company Announcement

  • RealPage Receives Antitrust Clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice for the Acquisition of Lease Rent Options, LRO® Business Wire
  • Airbnb launches ‘Experiences’ service in Melbourne, Bali and Hong Kong Business Standard

Earnings Release

  • Yatra Online, Inc. Announces Results for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 R Newswire Association LLC
  • Hertz Global Holdings Reports Third Quarter 2017 Financial Results PR Newswire

New Feature Release

  • Airbnb launches payment splitting for group trips TechCrunch

Key People Movement

  • Treebo appoints Sonali Ramaiah as Head- People Function People Matters

Lawsuit

  • Rosen Law Firm Announces Filing of Securities Class Action Lawsuit Against Skechers U.S.A., Inc. GlobeNewswire
 

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