CreateTrips is a mobile trip-planning platform that focuses on user-generated travel guide content called TravelBooks, which include an offline maps feature. Travel bloggers and travel companies can create, brand and sell TravelBooks (prices start at €3.59; creators may give them away for free without the offline map). The app also lets travelers build itineraries and access chosen information offline to avoid data-roaming costs. The company provides bloggers with branded author profiles, promotional widgets and links to their blogs and social channels to help monetize their audiences. CreateTrips launched initially in New Zealand in December, expanded into additional markets in April and May, had been available in 18 countries for months, and has now opened the app to global users. The active user base is described as numbering in the “tens of thousands,” and prior to the seed round the founder had been bootstrapping the business.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jun 2014