MAIRDUMONT VENTURES | Travel Tech VC

Holidu pockets $102M to keep growing its vacation rentals business in Europe

Daniel Gundel — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:10:53 +0000

Next milestone for Holidu: Series E secured.

Australia Camplify acquires European RV rental marketplace Paul Camper

Daniel Gundel — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 06:03:25 +0000

Great to be part of joint forces Camplify and Paul Camper.

Viselio snapped up by CIBT to improve visa process

Daniel Gundel — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 13:01:33 +0000

Digital visa specialist Viselio has been acquired by CIBT, a provider of visa and immigration services.

Vacation rental startup Holidu has tucked $45 million in Series D funding

Daniel Gundel — Tue, 18 May 2021 13:02:36 +0000

Great job Holidu and the entire team!!

Holidu books $45M after growing its vacation rentals business ~50% YoY during COVID-19

PaulCamper: the new generation of camping

Daniel Gundel — Tue, 18 May 2021 12:59:53 +0000

Die Sharing-Plattform des Berliner Start-ups PaulCamper bringt private Fahrzeugbesitzer und Campingfreunde zusammen. Dort können Letztere Wohnmobile oder Campingbusse mieten und ungezwungene Tage in der Natur verbringen. Ein positiver Nebeneffekt: Die Kosten des Abenteuers bleiben hier in der Regel weit unter den von rein professionellen Anbietern. Internationale Marktplatzspezialisten, wie Adevinta, FJ Labs und All Iron Ventures sowie BFB Brandenburg Kapital, Russmedia International und MAIRDUMONT VENTURES setzen auf das Unternehmen.

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Viselio lands €2.8M in funding for expansion, software development

Katharina Schilling — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:18:19 +0000

Automated visa service provider Viselio has raised 3 million Swiss francs (about €2.8 million) to expand into new markets.

EquityPitcher is leading the Series A all-equity round, with participation from Howzat Partners, existing backer Innuvik Ventures and other angel investors. The Switzerland-based startup, which previously raised $800,000 in 2018, simplifies visa application processes with software.

Since its launch in 2017, Viselio has expanded to seven European markets and now offers visa procurement for 83 countries.

Niklas Zeller, founder and managing director, says: “That leading startup investors believe in our team and the business idea of Viselio absolutely vindicates the path we have chosen.”

“We are very pleased that we will soon be able to offer and expand our services in more countries.”

In addition to getting into new markets, the company says the funding will be used for development and integration of its software into various accounting systems.

The deal includes the addition of two new administrative board members: Rolf Schafroth (formerly on the executive committee of Kuoni Reisen) and Sascha Horrig of EquityPitcher.

“Viselio solves a real, existing problem that currently still makes the booking of journeys unnecessarily complicated,” says Horrig.

Further information at: www.phocuswire.com/viselio-2m-series-a

Gronda raises €1.5 million to expand its hospitality job platform

Katharina Schilling — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:09:07 +0000

Austrian startup Gronda has closed a funding round of €1.5 million to expand internationally. The investment was carried out by the existing investors Speedinvest, karriere.at and Howzat Partners, with MairDumont’s shares being taken over from karriere.at.

Event travel at the trend – new millions for Travelcircus

Katharina Schilling — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:16:35 +0000

TRAVELCIRCUS (www.travelcircus.de), Germany’s largest entertainment travel platform, has found another renowned investor in Airbridge Equity Partners (AEP), who is investing almost 5 million euros in the travel start-up in a Series A financing round with existing investors, such as MAIRDUMONT VENTURES.Since its foundation in 2014, more than 800,000 travelers have already booked through Travelcircus – 250,000 of them this year! The fast-growing travel platform for event short trips specializes in the packaging of event tickets and hand-picked premium hotels.

Travelcircus was founded in 2014 by Bastian Böckenhüser and Mathias Zeitler and has become the market leader in the German entertainment travel market with self-developed technologies, its own distribution and strong direct partnerships with companies such as Ticketmaster, ATG, Stage Entertainment and Disney. Travelcircus is also the exclusive hotel and ticket partner for the internationally record-breaking play “Harry Potter and the Enchanted Child”, which will be shown in Hamburg from 2020.

Demand for event and entertainment travel growing

The global entertainment travel market is still in development, but is growing rapidly due to the global shift in consumer interests from goods to experiences; the shift to the so-called “experience economy”. This market will be worth 400 billion dollars by 2025. Travelcircus focuses on the largest and most profitable industries such as musicals & theatre, theme parks, museums & exhibitions, sporting events, trade shows, festivals & live concerts and wellness.

Travelcircus convinces customers and investors on the market

Travelcircus offers a digital marketplace that meets customers’ demand for easy to book experiences and providers’ needs for better pricing. With the rapidly growing and increasingly non-transparent nature of the Internet, customers are looking for an inspiration platform that offers attractive, quality-tested experiences that can be cumulated and booked cost-effectively in a fast booking route. Event providers and hotels are prepared to offer their services at a discount if they are sold in packages. Travelcircus offers the first all-round solution for travelers, hotels and event partners.

Growth through internationalization

In order to ensure the continued rapid growth, Travelcircus plans to use the investment to expand the current team from 65 to approx. 100 employees and to increase the turnover from currently almost 40 million euros to 100 million euros by 2021.

At the beginning of the year, Travelcircus was able to recruit the experienced tourism expert Kai Klitzke (former L’TUR CFO) as its new CFO. Travelcircus is planning its internationalisation from Q1 2020, starting in Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Further markets such as Belgium, Denmark and France are to follow.

Download the press release here

PaulCamper’s community-building playbook for marketplaces

Katharina Schilling — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:46:25 +0000

Take a page out of PaulCamper’s book and super-charge the community around your marketplace. In this interview, COO Julia Wadehn reveals the community-building tactics that helped PaulCamper solve the chicken-and-egg problem, build virality and word-of-mouth, scale customer support, and boost employee motivation.

https://www.sharetribe.com/academy/marketplace-community-building-playbook/

Holidu raises €40M Series C for its holiday rentals search engine

Katharina Schilling — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:39:50 +0000

Holidu, the Munich-headquartered holiday rentals search engine that is now active in 21 country markets, has raised €40 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Prime Ventures, with participation from coparion and MAIRDUMONT VENTURES. Existing investors, including EQT Ventures, Venture Stars, Senovo and business angel Chris Hitchen, also followed on.