Edinburgh-based travel tech startup TravelNest has raised £3 million in seed funding from Pentech, Mangrove Capital Partners, Frontline Ventures, and former Skyscanner COO Mark Logan.
TravelNest is a central platform for holiday rental hosts to manage all of their advertising in one place, providing a dashboard on the ads' data and the property's performance. The platform is free with TravelNest earning revenue via commissions from ads booked through the platform.
The vacation rental market is tipped to be worth $193 billion, said the company, driven by the likes of Airbnb and Booking.com. However, the landscape is rather fragmented with hosts needing to manage several different avenues for advertising and renting their properties.