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Flextrip lets you discover tours while travel planning
Aside from Dopplr’s quiet disappearance after its acquisition by Nokia and Tripit’s exit to Concer, web-based travel planning is still, arguably, one of the holy grails of the web. flextrip, a new...
View ArticleTravel startups are taking off
The second wave of internet-era travel companies has captured the attention of venture capitalists. In the last five years, travel companies have raised more than $1 billion in venture capital funding....
View ArticleLaunchDarkly CEO Edith Harbaugh explains why her company raised another $54M
This week, LaunchDarkly announced that it has raised another $54 million. Led by Bessemer Venture Partners and backed by the company’s existing investors, it brings the company’s total funding up to...
View ArticleTime to grab your pass to TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco
Prepare yourself for the triumphant return of TechCrunch Disrupt — live and in person — to San Francisco on October 18-20 at Moscone West! We can’t wait to welcome you and more than 10,000 other...
View ArticleYour shot to join the TC Disrupt Startup Battlefield 200 ends today
Time is running out on one of the biggest opportunities in Disrupt history. We stop accepting applications to the Startup Battlefield 200 tonight, August 5, at precisely 11:59 p.m. PDT. No more...
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2009: Products I Can't Live Without
At the beginning of each year I traditionally publish a list of my favorite startups and products. This is the fourth year I’ve done this – previous lists: 2006, 2007, 2008. You guys get to pick the...
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Will Air France-KLM's Social Network Bluenity Fly? I Like Dopplr Better.
Airline group Air France-KLM, formed after the merger of Société Air France and the Royal Dutch Airlines and currently the largest airline company in the world in terms of operating revenues, has...
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TripIt Launches An API. Travel Sites, Please Use It
TripIt, the helpful travel site that lets you generate an itinerary by simply forwarding the service your Email confirmations from hotels and airlines, has opened up an API for outside developers. The...
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FlightTrack Pro Puts TripIt (And More) In Your Pocket
Appropros Mobile has released a Pro version of its popular FlightTrack iPhone application that can automatically pull in your flight itineraries through TripIt’s recently released API. The original...
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Gliider Makes Makes Trip Planning A Breeze
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpX4n7n3aM&hl=en&fs=1&] At Launch Silicon Valley this past week, I saw a demo of Gliider, a Firefox plug-in and tool that allows you to drag and...
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TripIt Goes Pro, Launches Premium Flight Monitoring And Alerts
TripIt is one of those great services that actually manages to make life easier — just submit your travel confirmation Emails, and the site generates a comprehensive itinerary. It’s made Michael’s list...
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Dopplr Launches iPhone App, But Where's The Add Trip Button?
Dopplr has launched an iPhone app they are billing as a “social atlas”. Curiously, and possibly wisely, you don’t even need an account at Dopplr to use the app, meaning it will get exposed to a lot...
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TripIt Integrates With Yapta To Offer Airfare Tracking Service
We’re big fans of TripIt, a nifty site that creates customized travel itineraries from travel confirmation emails. Today, the service is becoming even more useful by integrating Yapta.com, an airfare...
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With New Auto-Import Itinerary Feature For Gmail, TripIt Just Got Easier To Use
Just when you thoughtTripIt couldn’t get any easier to use, the startup has defied the impossible. The nifty site that creates customized travel itineraries from travel confirmation emails, is...
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TripIt’s Pro Plan Now Pays For Itself, Will Track Flight Itineraries For...
TripIt, the site that creates customized travel itineraries from travel confirmation emails, is upgrading its premium version today to be even more useful. Now TripIt Pro will track any pro member’s...
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TripIt Bags An ExIt – Acquired By Concur For Up To $120 Million
Concur, a publicly-listed provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, this morning announced it has agreed to acquire TripIt, which helps travelers easily organize and share travel...
View ArticleTripIt Owner Concur Invests $5 Million In Flight Price Tracker Yapta
Travel and expense management company Concur, which earlier this year acquired TripIt and GlobalExchange, has invested $5 million in Yapta, a provider of airfare and hotel rate tracking services. The...
View ArticleFrom TC40 To $10.1M In Funding And A $120M Acquisition, TripIt Tells All
It feels like only days have passed since TechCrunch Disrupt NYC went down, but as every season turns (turns, turns…) another Disrupt is on the horizon. Our San Francisco event will commence on...
View ArticleDelta Sends C&Ds To Startups Tracking Airline Rewards; MileWise, AwardWallet...
Delta is joining American Airlines and Southwest Airlines as the third major brand to deny travel startups access to users’ frequent flyer accounts for the purpose of tracking airlines’ miles and...
View ArticleThe Entire SV Angel Partnership To Speak At Disrupt NY
TechCrunch is excited to announce today that the entire SV Angel partnership is headed to Disrupt NY 2015. That means Ron Conway, David Lee, Brian Pokorny, Topher Conway, Robert Pollak and Kevin Carter...
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