Duffel builds a modern API platform that lets travel agencies plug directly into airlines' reservation systems to pull real-time flight offers, make bookings, access live seat availability and buy extras. Its target customers are digital and mobile app-based travel agencies that want faster, simpler integrations than legacy platforms allow. The company leverages the IATA New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard to surface live offers and ancillary services from major carriers. Duffel already lists airline partners including American Airlines, British Airways, Lufthansa Group, Aegean Airlines, Vueling and Iberia. Management says it will use new funding to hire more engineers and grow the broader team. Duffel plans geographic expansion across North America and Europe and has signaled future product expansion into trains and hotels. Duffel is a travel platform still operating in stealth mode. It plans to be a B2B offering that allows individual travel agents at large online travel management companies and tour operators to offer a seamless travel experience to their end customers. The product aims to make the booking experience simpler, faster and cheaper. Duffel recently raised $21.5M in a Series A. The $21.5M Series A came from Benchmark. No other financial details or operating metrics were provided in the article. Duffel is a London-headquartered, Y Combinator-backed travel startup working on a new way to book travel online and aiming to deliver an end-to-end booking experience. The company is largely in stealth and has kept product details private while it develops its platform. Duffel was founded by Steve Domin, Tom Bates and Vincent Pastor; Steve and Tom are former early GoCardless employees and the team has notable fintech experience. The founders say they are building a platform from scratch to redefine travel bookings on web and mobile and to modernize the industry’s antiquated infrastructure. Duffel announced an investment round of $4.7 million and said the money will be used to expand its engineering team in London. The company is participating in Y Combinator’s S18 cohort.

Total raised

$56M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Oct 2019