Mega investments in travel

Fueled by a healthy global online travel outlook and an abundance of investment capital chasing scalable market opportunities, funding to travel startups increased 55% year-over-year to US$5.7 billion in 2018, according to Phocuswright's latest travel research report The State of Travel Startups 2019. Nearly one-third of all funding raised since 2009 occurred in 2018.

The investors participating in the biggest funding rounds often overlap, as potentially highly lucrative deals are coveted and exclusive to a select few.

The level of participation for each investor varies for each funding round, and individual funding amounts are often undisclosed. The below data includes publicly disclosed funding and acquisitions.

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• Analysis by year, type, region and category
• Funding activity by stage
• Highlights of top-funded companies and the investors behind them
• The market trends driving investment
• Expanded analysis of major travel segments, business models and technologies

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