Next Generation Travel Management Start-Up Rocketrip Closes $3 Million In Series A-1 Funding

Series A Investors Canaan Partners and Genacast Ventures Join New Investors CrunchFund and Paul Buchheit to Fund Product Development and Sales

NEW YORK, July 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Rocketrip, the first commercially available platform to save companies money on travel expenses by rewarding employees for cost-saving behavior, today announced that it raised $3 million in an accelerated round of funding from current and new investors. The funding will be used to expedite product development and sales efforts.

The A-1 round was led by current investors Canaan Partners and Genacast Ventures, and includes participation from new investors CrunchFund and Paul Buchheit. Rocketrip closed a $2.6 million Series A round in January 2014 led by Canaan with participation from Genacast Ventures, Y Combinator, and other investors. To date, Rocketrip has raised $6.2 million in venture funding.

“Since January’s Series A round, results from Rocketrip’s Pilot Programs have provided quantifiable evidence that the platform will decrease corporate travel costs by more than 20 percent, fundamentally change employee spending behavior, and make travel weary employees feel better about hitting the road,” says Dan Ruch, Founder & CEO of Rocketrip. “We are all very encouraged by the positive feedback from current Rocketrip customers, as well as a deep pipeline of new business. The money raised from this A-1 round will be used primarily to drive our sales efforts as well as build out our product and engineering team to improve usability and integrate new features.”

Genacast Ventures