TravelJoy
Series A in 2024
TravelJoy is a travel management platform designed to enhance the trip planning experience for travel agents and their clients. It provides a suite of tools that streamline the booking process, allowing travel professionals to manage their businesses more efficiently. The platform offers modern, digital solutions that simplify invoicing and secure payments, enabling users to save time and stay organized. By focusing on these essential services, TravelJoy aims to help travel agents attract ideal clients more quickly and with less effort, thereby improving the overall efficiency of their operations in the tourism industry.
Founded in 2004, RateGain is a global software company specializing in hospitality and travel technology solutions. It serves clients across various sectors such as hotels, airlines, tour operators, and more, helping them optimize operations and sales worldwide.
TravelJoy
Seed Round in 2017
TravelJoy is a travel management platform designed to enhance the trip planning experience for travel agents and their clients. It provides a suite of tools that streamline the booking process, allowing travel professionals to manage their businesses more efficiently. The platform offers modern, digital solutions that simplify invoicing and secure payments, enabling users to save time and stay organized. By focusing on these essential services, TravelJoy aims to help travel agents attract ideal clients more quickly and with less effort, thereby improving the overall efficiency of their operations in the tourism industry.
HotelTonight
Series A in 2011
HotelTonight, Inc. is a mobile application designed for booking same-day hotel accommodations, specializing in last-minute deals for unsold rooms. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform provides a marketplace that allows hotels to fill last-minute vacancies that would otherwise remain unoccupied. Users can easily access these discounted rates through their smartphones and tablets, making it a convenient option for business travelers, leisure travelers, and locals alike. The application enables bookings for rooms up to 100 days in advance, catering to various travel needs while ensuring significant savings for its customers. As of April 2019, HotelTonight operates as a subsidiary of Airbnb, Inc.
Findery
Angel Round in 2011
Findery is a social discovery platform that enhances the exploration of places through user-generated content. It allows individuals to share stories, histories, and unique insights about various locations, creating a rich tapestry of experiences that can be accessed via smartphone. The platform serves as a crowdsourced travel guide, enabling users to document their travels and memories while inviting others to contribute their own narratives. By fostering a community of travelers, adventure-seekers, and storytellers, Findery aims to make the world more engaging and informative, allowing users to discover both local and global destinations through the perspectives of others.
MileWise
Debt Financing in 2010
Milewise is a travel planning company that provides a search engine service for frequent travelers which shows various ways to pay for flights using cash, airline miles, and hotel and credit card points.
The search engine also tracks reward program balances and combines them with user’s travel and redemption preferences to recommend the best way to pay.
Milewise was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, United States. As of May 9, 2013, it was acquired by [Yahoo! Inc](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/yahoo).
Open Places
Seed Round in 2010
Open Places is a company that develops an open network of high-quality information about various locations, curated by writers and photographers globally. This platform promotes neighborhoods, towns, and regions, fostering a connection between travelers and locals. Open Places creates social content platforms for iOS and Android, which engage users by leveraging mobile actions linked to social media, while also building email and push notification lists for targeted communications. The company offers the Trazzler application, allowing users to discover nearby places and collaborate with editors on editorial content. Open Places provides opportunities for writers and photographers to receive assignments, collaborate with professionals, win awards, and enhance their portfolios. The company serves a diverse range of clients, including nonprofits, public radio stations, parks, schools, tourism bureaus, and various approved organizations. Incorporated in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Open Places was previously known as Trazzler, Inc.
Open Places
Seed Round in 2009
Open Places is a company that develops an open network of high-quality information about various locations, curated by writers and photographers globally. This platform promotes neighborhoods, towns, and regions, fostering a connection between travelers and locals. Open Places creates social content platforms for iOS and Android, which engage users by leveraging mobile actions linked to social media, while also building email and push notification lists for targeted communications. The company offers the Trazzler application, allowing users to discover nearby places and collaborate with editors on editorial content. Open Places provides opportunities for writers and photographers to receive assignments, collaborate with professionals, win awards, and enhance their portfolios. The company serves a diverse range of clients, including nonprofits, public radio stations, parks, schools, tourism bureaus, and various approved organizations. Incorporated in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Open Places was previously known as Trazzler, Inc.
DealBase Corporation, founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, operates a travel deals search platform that aggregates information on various travel-related offers. The platform provides users with access to a wide array of deals, including flights, hotels, vacation packages, car rentals, and discount coupons, sourced from airline and hotel websites, email newsletters, private hotel offers, rewards programs, and online travel agencies. By consolidating these offerings into a single platform, DealBase enables users to efficiently discover and take advantage of travel deals tailored to their needs.