(La Nacion) Online travel agency Despegar.com, which is backed by Tiger Global, General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital, its planning to make its IPO on the Nasdaq in late 2016/early 2017.…
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(Exame) American investment fund, Insight Venture Partners, closed the purchase of a controlling stake in travel site Hotel Urbano, increasing its share in the company to 41%. Insight Venture Partners…
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(Press Release) Nexxus Capital today announced that through its portfolio company, Price Travel, it acquired Los Tiquetes Más Baratos, an international retailer of tourism services based in Colombia. Nexxus Capital´s…
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(PulsoSocial) Viajala, the Medellín-based search engine for hotels and flights for LatinAmerica, closed a round let by Altabix, a subsidaiary of Mexican Hotel Group City Express. Socialatom Ventures, Wayra and…
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(Startupi) Voopter, a global airline ticket comparison platform, announced receiving a second round of investment from Germany’s Global Founders Capital. The investment follows startups progress in reaching one million monthly…
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(Startupi) Nativoo, travel startup, receives a new round of investments from Grupo sbtur. The new investment was made to focus the company on mobile exclusively and to expand the platform…
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(PEHUb) Wanderu, a Boston-based travel search engine, providing the simplest way to find and book bus and train travel, announced it has raised US$5.6m in a Series A round of…
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(Bloomberg) Carlyle Group LP (CG) plans to overcome a slowdown in Latin America’s largest economy by reviving an initial public offering for its Brazilian travel agency after shelving the sale…
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(WSJ) The owners of Brazil’s largest travel agency group in terms of revenue, CVC Brasil Operadora e Agência de Viagens S.A, have revived plans for an initial public offering of…
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(The Wall Street Journal) There’s a new player in Mexico’s venture capital game: Jaguar Ventures. VentureWire reports that the firm plans to raise up to US$60 million to fund Mexico’s…