Travel Startups Raise $580 Million Over Two Weeks

Travel Startup Funding This Week

Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. Please email Travel Tech Reporter Justin Dawes at jd@skift.com if you have funding news.

Tech companies promising to automate old industries are still getting big investment deals in 2025. 

Klook, which is modernizing the historically low-tech sector of ticketed experiences, just landed its second large fundraise in the past 18 months. And RoomPriceGenie, despite having several notable competitors, raised $75 million to help hotels automate pricing — an area that’s seen a lot of demand as hotels have been looking to modernize and generate more revenue since the pandemic. 

While startups developing flying taxis and renewable jet fuel are not producing much revenue yet, they’re raking in large amounts of money with the promise of big business in the future. 

Six travel startups raised nearly $580 million over the past two weeks.

Archer Aviation, which is developing a flying taxi for commercial flights and defense clients, has raised $301.8 million. 

Investors included funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. 

The company has now raised over $2 billion, including its most recent deal of $430 million in December. 

The company said the latest fundraise brings its total liquidity to around $1 billion.

California-based Archer is developing an electric vertical takeoff and landing (