Last-minute travel app HotelTonight books $23M in funding

June 5, 2012 11:02 AM Jennifer Van Grove

Last-minute hotel booking is proving to be big business for HotelTonight, a one year-old San Francisco-based startup that just closed $23 million in additional funding.

Launched in 2011, HotelTonight makes elegant and easy mobile-booking applications for the iPhone, iPad, and …

DealAngel finds hotel steals, protects you from rip-off rates

April 19, 2012 2:48 PM Jennifer Van Grove

Jennifer Van Grove

When was the last time you were 100 percent confident that the price you paid for a hotel stay was a steal? Just-launched hotel search-engine and aggregator DealAngel eliminates the guesswork with an at-a-glance look at the quality of the …

Train on: flight search startup Hipmunk now sports Amtrak train routes

September 8, 2011 9:08 AM Matthew Lynley

Matthew Lynley

Flight and hotel search startup Hipmunk today announced it is adding routes from Amtrak to its travel search site.

The train results now appear in-line with flights whenever users search for a travel route. The results only show up when …

Happy birthday, Hipmunk: 1 million monthly searches served and still growing

August 17, 2011 11:04 AM Matthew Lynley

Matthew Lynley

Flight search startup Hipmunk could be profitable if it wanted to be — but it’s more interested in growing as quickly as possible.

And it looks like the growth strategy is working. The site passed 1 million monthly searches this …

Travel-search startup Hipmunk is nitpicky – and getting better

June 28, 2011 2:54 PM Matthew Lynley

Matthew Lynley

Flight search startup Hipmunk now indicates which flights have Wi-Fi available for the duration of the flight — a relatively small change that shows just how nitpicky the company is about building the best design in the travel-search startup ecosystem.…