Groupize offers an end-to-end platform designed to reduce the complexity of starting, sourcing, managing and measuring simple meetings. The company recently launched a registration product and an integration with Concur’s travel management platform. Groupize serves enterprise customers including several Fortune 100 companies, major travel management companies (TMCs) and corporate agencies. Founded in 2011 and based in Boston, the company is led by CEO Charles de Gaspe Beaubien. It closed an additional financing round to support growth and product development. The new funds will be used to invest in sales, customer support and engineering. Groupize provides a cloud-based group-booking and management platform used by independent properties, hotel groups and affiliate travel web sites. The company is led by President and CEO Charles de Gaspe Beaubien. It is currently used by more than 8,000 hotels and several travel web sites. Groupize secured an additional $2M in Series A1 funding and has raised over $4.5M in total to date. The new capital will be used to build the sales organization, support the customer base and accelerate the launch of Instant Book Capabilities for Small Groups. The platform targets both independent properties and hotel groups seeking streamlined group booking and management tools. Groupize operates an automated booking engine that enables group planners to shop and book group-friendly hotels without individual credit-card payments, name changes, cancellations, deviations or upgrades. Its technology is available to hotel chains via a licensing model and to major web sites via a revenue-share model. The company plans to expand its technology modules, launch additional hotel partnerships, introduce a retail B2B division, and provide a white-label engine plus a dedicated contact center to assist organizers. Targeted organizer use cases include business trips, meetings, reunions, weddings, girl’s weekend getaways, family vacations and sport trips. Founded in 2010 and led by CEO Charles de Gaspe Beaubien, Groupize is based in Boston, MA. The company initially raised seed capital from travel industry leaders Gregg Brockway, Scott Hintz, Andy Denmark, Mike Fuller and others.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Oct 2017