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Omio raises $80M as travel demand rebounds after years of COVID-19 crisis
It’s been a tough few years for Omio, the Berlin-based travel search and booking platform that saw 98% of its revenues evaporate overnight when COVID-19 hit Europe back in spring…
Omio takes $100M to shuttle through the coronavirus crisis
Multimodal travel platform Omio (formerly GoEuro) has raised $100M in late stage funding to help see its business through the coronavirus crisis. It also says it’s eyeing potential M&A opportunities…
B2B challenger bank Finom raises $7M Seed from Target Global and General Catalyst
Just as challenger banks have appeared in the B2C space, so to have B2B startup banks aimed at small businesses, among them startups like Qonto (Fr), Tide (UK), Penta (GER)…
Travel aggregator Omio hops over the pond to launch in North America
Travel aggregator Omio, which operates a multimodal transport planning and booking platform for intercity and long distance tips, has hopped over the pond to launch in North America — its…
Omio buys Rome2rio to build out its global travel aggregator business
Omio (née GoEuro) has acquired multimodal travel veteran Rome2rio as it works on building out a global travel aggregator business, having taken the decision to zoom out from its home…
Target Global, the Berlin-headquartered VC, opens London office
Target Global, the Berlin-headquartered VC that has backed the likes of Auto1, Delivery Hero, Omio (formerly GoEuro) and Wefox, is opening up its first U.K. office — undeterred by Brexit…
GoEuro rebrands as Omio to take its travel aggregator business global
European multimodal travel booking platform GoEuro has announced a change of name and destination: Its new ambition is to go global, scaling beyond its regional grounding to tackle the challenge…
GoEuro is adding ferries to its multi-modal travel planner mix
European multi-modal travel planning platform GoEuro is adding another transport option to its “compare and book” proposition by introducing ferries to the existing mix of trains, planes and buses. The platform…
Berlin-based startup GoEuro just raised a new $150 million funding round from Kinnevik and Temasek, with Hillhouse Capital also participating. According to Crunchbase, the company has raised nearly $300 million…
UK-based travel search engine Skyscanner has expanding its offering with a train ticket booking feature that lets users of its iOS app book UK train journeys. The feature is slated as coming to…
GoEuro plugs its data into Chinese travel booking platform, Qunar
Berlin-based GoEuro, the well-funded European travel planner platform, is looking to the Far East for business growth, announcing today that it’s inked a distribution partnership with Chinese travel booking platform, Qunar. Its…
Atomico closes on $765 million for its biggest fund yet
Atomico has closed its fourth fund with $765 million, making it one of Europe’s single largest venture capital funds. The firm began raising the fund eleven months ago (we’d flagged it for…
GoEuro in talks with Uber to loop in last mile transport
European long distance travel booking platform GoEuro is in talks with Uber about an integration to cover the last mile of a journey, an area GoEuro does not focus on.…
Russia’s Busfor raises $20M to wrap up bus ticketing across Eastern Europe and Asia
While Uber and others fight over private car transportation, there remains an elephant in the room which has simply not been disrupted yet and which actually carries far more people…
Come hear GoEuro’s CEO talk trains, planes and automobiles at Disrupt London
Travel and transportation have always been major focus points for the tech world. Why? Because people will always want to get from points A to B, and to do it faster…
GoEuro banks another $70M to keep building out its travel planner platform
Travel planner and booking platform GoEuro has taken in another big cash injection, announcing a $70 million funding round led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk and Valley VC fund Kleiner Perkins…
‘Europe by rail’ booking platform, Loco2, finally gets an app
Pan-European train travel booking website Loco2 has launched its first app, letting iOS users book and pay for trips via their phone. Launching an Android app is also on its…
Travel Planner Platform GoEuro Finally Gets France’s SNCF On Board
A notable development for European multimodal travel planning platform GoEuro which has finally signed France’s national rail carrier, SNCF — with co-founder Naren Shaam dubbing this a “major milestone” for…
GoEuro Gets $45M To Make Long Distance Trips By Public Transport As Easy As Uber
While on-demand startups like Uber and BlaBlaCar continue to pack warchests with massive funding rounds as investors bet big that leveraging individual car ownership is the key to powering gigantic…
European Travel Planner Platform, GoEuro, Pulls In Another $27M For Regional Expansion
Berlin-based multi-mode travel planner platform GoEuro has closed a $27 million Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates, seven months on from topping up its seed funding with…
GoEuro Adds Benelux Markets To Its European Journey Planner Platform
After its multi-million top-up round back in January, European multi-modal transport journey planner platform GoEuro has made good on its pledge to expand into more markets, adding three more to its…
GoEuro Gets “Multi-Million” Top-Up From Lakestar To Add More Markets To Its Journey Planner Platform
GoEuro, one of a raft of European startups attempting to simplify the tangled web of transport booking systems us ‘Old Worldian’ Europeans have to navigate if we wish to travel…
GoEuro’s Multi-Mode Travel Platform Launches In Germany & The U.K. To Take The Strain Out Of Route Planning
After closing a $4m round in March, led by Battery Ventures and Hasso Plattner Ventures, Berlin-based multi-mode travel search platform GoEuro has now launched its website in open beta in…