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TripIt

TripIt is a trip planner that enables its users to create a master travel itinerary and provide them with online and mobile access.

United States, North America TechCrunch 40

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Founded Date

2007

Industries
Hospitality Scheduling Travel and Transport
Operating Status

Acquired

Website

www.tripit.com

Founders

Andy Denmark Founder

News About TripIt

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Your shot to join the TC Disrupt Startup Battlefield 200 ends today

Lauren Simonds

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 deadline extensions, no last-minute exceptions. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Lollygagger alert: Drop what you’re doing and go apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 right […]

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Time to grab your pass to TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco

Alexandra Ames

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 attendees to our flagship event — the epicenter of the startup ecosystem.  Registration is open: Take advantage of our launch […]

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LaunchDarkly CEO Edith Harbaugh explains why her company raised another $54M

Greg Kumparak

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 $130 million. For the unfamiliar, LaunchDarkly builds a platform that allows companies to easily roll out new features to only certain customers, providing a […]

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The Entire SV Angel Partnership To Speak At Disrupt NY

Matt Burns

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 will take the stage together, bringing their collective wisdom and experience to Disrupt. Over the years, members of the legendary Silicon Valley […]

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Delta Sends C&Ds To Startups Tracking Airline Rewards; MileWise, AwardWallet & Others Affected

Sarah Perez

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 rewards. Startups affected include TripIt (reportedly*), MileWise and AwardWallet (confirmed) and others. Here's the situation in a nutshell: the airlines think your rewards data is theirs. Users think they own their own data. Imagine that! What's worse, is that airlines are actually pissing off some of their most important customers - frequent flyers - when they do things like this. It's a group that's critical to airlines' bottom line.

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From TC40 To $10.1M In Funding And A $120M Acquisition, TripIt Tells All

Jordan Crook

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 September 8, and every time preparation begins for the massive conference I can't help but take a look back at the incredible success stories to come out of Disrupt. In fact, a whole mess of them can be found right here. But those aren't even the half of it, which is why we've decided to revive our "Where They Are Now" series, starting with TripIt. Since launching on the TC40 stage back in 2007, TripIt has survived the rise of the smartphone, raised a total of $10.1 million and funding, and completed a super successful exit in the form of a $120 million acquisition by Concur. I sat down with Andy Denmark, a founder and VP of Engineering, to hear the tale of TripIt's journey from our stage almost 6 years ago to today.

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Flextrip lets you discover tours while travel planning

Zinnaglism2

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 startup operating out of Europe and the US and founded by long time entrepreneurs Leith Stevens, Alex Kremer and Andrew Glover, aims to facilitate travel planning by offering real-time offers for tours and activities - a branch of the travel industry that is still somewhat neglected despite its estimated global market size of $89 billion. Flextrip is a stand alone service that lets you plan your travels by pulling in your Dopplr or Tripit travel details, analyzing that data and serving real-time offers from local operators. Tour operators working with flextrip on the other hand receive SMS notifications whenever a potential travel customer plans a tour in some city or region. They in turn can then make targeted offers to the traveller .

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TripIt Bags An ExIt – Acquired By Concur For Up To $120 Million

Robin Wauters

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 plans. Concur is initially paying approximately $82 million in upfront cash, stock and unvested restricted stock units - additional consideration over time could bring the total value to $120 million. More details on the financials are below.

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TripIt’s Pro Plan Now Pays For Itself, Will Track Flight Itineraries For Price Drops

Leena Rao

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 flight itinerary so they are notified of a price drop that could trigger a potential airline refund. TripIt Pro members will now be alerted by email and text message when they may be eligible for an airline credit or voucher. Any eligible flight within TripIt Pro is automatically monitored for post-purchase price drops. Consumers simply contact the airline via phone to obtain their credit, armed with the information TripIt Pro provides in its alerts.

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With New Auto-Import Itinerary Feature For Gmail, TripIt Just Got Easier To Use

Leena Rao

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 launching an auto-import feature for Gmail and Google Apps that will automatically read and import your travel emails to create and update itineraries on TripIt. The feature essentially replaces needing to forward confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com. If you have a TripIt account you can register your Gmail or Google Apps account for the auto-import feature, allowing TripIt to automatically import your travel confirmation emails to create itineraries. The feature works across TripIt's web platform and the startup's apps for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry phones.

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TripIt Integrates With Yapta To Offer Airfare Tracking Service

Leena Rao

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 and hotel tracking service, into its platform. Yapta lets you track fares from most of the major domestic and international airlines, allowing users to select flights to track, and then be alerted when the price fluctuates. If the price declines after you purchase it, Yapta will help you get a refund or credit from airlines that have lowest guaranteed fare policies. Travelers can now forward their flight confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com and can choose to have Yapta start tracking their flights for airline refunds or credits. TripIt members can then link their account to Yapta in order to be alerted when they are eligible for a refund or credit based on an airline’s “guaranteed airfare” policy.

Dopplr Launches iPhone App, But Where's The Add Trip Button?

Mike Butcher

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 more potential users. However, a let down from the get-go is that you can't add upcoming trips from within the app right now, which is kinda the point with Dopplr, as it's users will attest - although the feature is planned, they say. Till then if you want to add trips on mobile people can use the site, twitter, SMS or email in the usual manner, of course. The app appears first on the iPhone, but apps for Nokia, Blackberry and Google Android platforms are also in the pipeline. The app is available from the iTunes store here. There is plenty of content inside the app pulled from Dopplr's own content as well as your social network. The question mark with Dopplr is how it will continue to fair against Tripit, which is tearing along at a fast pace and recently launched premium flight monitoring and alerts.

TripIt Goes Pro, Launches Premium Flight Monitoring And Alerts

Jason Kincaid

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 of products he can't live without for two years running, and is quickly gaining fans among frequent travelers. That's all well and good, but until now the service hasn't really had much of a revenue model beyond advertising. Today, that changes: the company is launching TripIt Pro, a collection of premium features that is sure to appeal to a wide range of road warriors. The first major feature offered by TripIt Pro is enhanced flight monitoring. TripIt will keep tabs on any delays, cancellations, and gate changes for every flight in your itinerary, and send you an SMS message to alert you as soon as there's a change (you can also choose to receive reminders for check-in 24 hours before your flight). TripIt co-founder Scott Hintz ackowledges that some airlines offer similar notification services, but says that you have to set these up for every carrier you fly on. With TripIt, you only have to sign up once for it to work across all airlines.

Gliider Makes Makes Trip Planning A Breeze

Leena Rao

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 drop travel information you collect from around the web. The video explains the concept behind Gliider, which is still in private beta, fairly well. While the travel 2.0 space is nearly saturated with a plethora of competitive products, Gliider's tool is incredibly useful and its focus is narrow (Gliider only wants to help users with planning), which could make it standout in the crowd. After you download the plug-in, you can pop-out the Gliider trip planner box from your browser when you need it. Within the planner box, you can create a trip, specify where you are traveling to (Gliider's search box offers auto suggestions), and when you plan to go. Gliider will automatically create folders for each type of information, including flights, hotels, shopping, transport and food. You can also create customized folders. When you come across useful travel info, like hotel, restaurant, or flight listings, you can highlight the text and images and simply drag and drop the info into the box. Once the item is in the organizer, you can make insert comments to each item. It replaces bookmarking for travel and automatically organizes links, sites, and listings for you. Once you've finished the planning process of a trip, Gliider will email you all your details in a PDF file. The startup will also be rolling out a iPhone app that will let you view your planned trips.

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FlightTrack Pro Puts TripIt (And More) In Your Pocket

Mark Hendrickson

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 FlightTrack application, which costs $4.99 and is currently ranked third among the iPhone App Store's top paid travel applications, asks for you to enter an airline, a flight number, and a date. It then displays a travel map with route and weather information, and it tells you whether the flight's gate has changed or if there's been a delay. The new Pro version essentially saves you from having to remember flight numbers by giving you a list of the itineraries you have already emailed to TripIt. You can still look up flights manually (perhaps when you want to retrieve the status of a flight for a friend or family member), but you'll always have your own travel information ready for quick access.

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TripIt Launches An API. Travel Sites, Please Use It

Jason Kincaid

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 API will give third party applications access to TripIt's itinerary sysytem, which now accepts data from 350 travel sites. Developers can find all the details for joining the program here. A number of applications have already used the API to implement new features. Expensd, an online service that helps business travelers manage their expenses, will use TripIt to automatically import your transit and hotel expenses. Popular iPhone application FlightTrack will use TripIt to automatically look up your flights to see if they're on time. And Where I've Been, a social network application that plots your travels on a map for your friends to see, will use the API to automatically look up your destinations. Other potential uses for the API include an 'Add To TripIt' button that would allow travel sites to transmit your booking data to TripIt so you won't have to forward your confirmation Email.

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Will Air France-KLM's Social Network Bluenity Fly? I Like Dopplr Better.

Robin Wauters

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 recently launched a social network for travelers called Bluenity to connect its +75 million customers when traveling (presumably so that they can meet up with strangers). An airline moving into social networking is interesting, so we decided to take a look and see how it compares to internet startups who are looking to monetize social platforms catered to travelers. Unfortunately, in this case, it turns out to be not much more than a marketing exercise.

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2009: Products I Can't Live Without

Michael Arrington

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 winners of the Crunchies - this list is all mine. This is a list of the products I tend to use daily. Some are for work (Wordpress, Delicious, Zoho, etc.), some are for fun (MySpace Music, Hulu, etc), and some are useful for both (Digg, Skype, YouTube, etc.). But I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them. The list changes a bit from year to year, and is also getting longer (see chart). Just three products have been favorites all four years: TechMeme, Skype, Wordpress. TechMeme continues to be the news aggregator I check multiple times per day to keep up on tech news. Skype is the instant messaging and VoIP platform that I use most often, and Wordpress software powers all of our blogs. I've added nine new products, including one gadget (which I've left off in the past): Animoto, Friendfeed, Hulu, iPhone 3G, MySpace Music, Pandora (which was on in previous years) Docstoc/Scribd and Yammer.