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Traveling the World with New Eyes

Data Virtualization

The phrase “The true voyage of discovery does not consist in seeking new lands, but in having new eyes,” extracted with a certain freedom of synthesis from Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is perhaps one of his best.

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For those who want to turn travel into dollars, Fora can help start your next career

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Travel is back, at least according to experts who say travel bookings for over the Thanksgiving holiday are showing to be even higher than pre-pandemic levels. Anyone who loves travel or is that friend who always plans the best vacations, Fora has a tool for you. Travel agencies are a $100 billion market in the U.S. ,

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Mobility startup Plentywaka picks up $1.2M seed, acquires Ghana’s Stabus

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The company provides intrastate travel (via its Dailywaka offering) and interstate travel (via its Travelwaka offering) for its users via a mobile application. Lagos and Toronto-based mobility startup Plentywaka has raised a $1.2 However , for the former, it’s in the form of an acquisition. The Plentywaka and Stabus executives.

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Zartico secures $20M to help tourism offices promote local destinations

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Despite representing 10% of the world’s GDP, the tourism industry has been one of the last to embrace big data and analytics. On the analytics side, Zartico uses AI to predict activity, like the volume of visitors to a certain area, and to extract mentions of travel destinations from unstructured text (e.g. Image Credits: Zartico.

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How investors are valuing the pandemic

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We’re keeping our usual eye on the earnings cycle, quietly, but today we have some learnings for the startup world. The gap between the two likely comes partially from how new the DoorDash stock is, and the pandemic making it difficult to forecast. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. Why the initial dip?

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General Atlantic eyes increasing stake in Amazon-backed insurtech Acko

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The New York-headquartered growth equity investor is positioning to lead a new financing round of about $100 million in the Indian startup, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the details are private. The new deliberations follow Acko engaging with PayU earlier this year to raise a round of over $200 million at a valuation of $1.8

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Zombie startups

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In the rest of this newsletter, we’re going to talk about the do-it-all startups and Sarah Guo’s new VC fund. I’ve been seeing a lot of startups recently that want the best of both worlds for consumers, and Getaway is no different — combining both an investment and an enjoyment in one product. That’s complicated).”. The do-it-all’s.