HouseTrip, the holiday lettings marketplace raised $2.7m from Index Ventures back in April and relaunched to appeal to a wider market than its holiday apartments rental space. HouseTrip built a reputation by removing the need for guests to negotiate with homeowners directly, thus building in a degree of security. Today it’s completed a $17 million Series B funding round led by Balderton Capital. Index Ventures reinvested pro-rata.

The funding will be used to develop the product, generate more inventory (through additional outreach to holiday apartment hosts) and reach (through marketing and localisation).

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• HOUSETRIP

Company: HouseTrip

Website: housetrip.com

Launch Date: January 2010

Funding: $19.7M

HouseTrip is Europe’s largest holiday rental website, offering over 94,000 properties to choose from in thousands of destinations worldwide. HouseTrip makes it easy for guests and homeowners to find, book and list holiday rental properties securely online. Founded by CEO Arnaud Bertrand and CFO Junjun Chen, HouseTrip.com went live in January 2010 and has since seen over 500,000 nights booked. There are HouseTrip offices in the UK (London), Switzerland (Lausanne) and Portugal (Lisbon.) HouseTrip has received $17 million (15M CHF) in...

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