Kamil Raises $20 Million for Five-Senses Hotels: Travel Startup Funding This Week
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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.This week, travel startups announced more than $710 million in funding.
>>Oyo, the India-based startup running hospitality networks, raised $660 million from global institutional investors to pay off debt and invest in product technology. See Skift's earlier story.
>>Kamil+, a hotel group in China whose brands offer "an immersive aestethic experience," has closed a $20 million (130 million renminbi) seed round of funding in a mix of equity and debt investment from High Star Holding Group and banks.
This mid-to-high-end hotel group, headquartered in Wuhan, aims to impress guests by attending to all five senses. It targets Generation Z urbanites.
Gaoxing Hotel Group is a supporter, using the company as a way to learn how to integrate the digital gene into hotel operations and adopt more modern loyalty, digital marketing, and supply chain systems.
Kamil+ has sub-brands such as Kamilheim Hotel, Anita+Kamil, KamilHeim, and Liv
