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TBO Tek’s secret sauce: 5 moves behind Affirma Capital’s 12x exit
Affirma Capital's exit from TBO Tek returned 12x on a US$42M entry in 2018. Five moves explain it, and each one is a lesson for B2B travel distribution in APAC.
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Weekly Digest: India’s digital tourism stack and who gets AI bookings
Five stories from the week: India's National Digital Tourism Stack, Thai Airways' CEO exit, an agentic AI travel hackathon, Airbnb's AI agent stance and Mews guest automation.
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MakeMyTrip’s Myra: 5 moves behind India’s chat-first booking
Myra handles over 50,000 conversations a day in eight languages. Five moves behind MakeMyTrip's AI assistant, and what they mean for OTAs and airlines.
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MakeMyTrip’s Price Drop Protection: the Rs 229 bet on falling fares
MakeMyTrip's new Price Drop Protection adds a third paid cover to the flight checkout, for Rs 229 a head. What it pays, where it stops, and what it means for…
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ixigo Smart Lock: 5 things built years before the Rs 99 fare agent
ixigo Smart Lock hunts a fare inside your budget for Rs 99 and holds it for four hours. The five things that made the agent possible were built earlier.
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Carrum raises US$10 million from Uber at a US$168 million valuation
Uber leads a US$10 million Series B into Carrum Mobility, India's largest Uber Black fleet partner, at a US$168 million valuation. Plus two more travel startup funding deals from this…
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Travel Startup Funding in India: 2018 Year in Review
As we wind up 2018, here's a look back at Indian travel startups that stole the limelight and attracted the attention of investors. While OYO has been the behemoth leading the…
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Our pick of 5 Asian travel startups that you should look out for
Asia is definitely set to take the travel industry by the horns. Tourist spending in the Asia-Pacific region is on a rising spree and continues to outgrow other regions in…
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Venture capital investments in travel tech may hit record highs in 2018 : report
An analysis by Lufthansa Innovation Hub found that funding in the first two months of 2018 reached more than $6.5 billion across 76 deals – a pace that could bring…
Debarati Dasgupta
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