Journera operates a secure, real-time data exchange platform across the travel industry. Its platform creates a complete, real-time view of a traveler’s journey, enabling airlines, hotels and other travel companies to build more seamless experiences that drive loyalty and direct engagement. The company lists commercial partners including United Airlines, American Airlines, Hilton, InterContinental Hotels Group, Marriott International, Hyatt and many others. Led by CEO Jeffrey Katz and based in Chicago, Journera raised $10m in a Series B-1 round. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations, broaden its business reach and accelerate product development. Journera is a Chicago-based real-time data exchange travel platform that aggregates data from across the travel journey to enable coordinated customer experiences. The platform enables use cases such as automatically rebooking rental car reservations when flights are cancelled, preparing hotel rooms early, delivering bags to hotel rooms, and dispatching rideshares or room keys for contactless check-in. Journera emphasizes secure, private data sharing and works with commercial partners including Hilton, InterContinental Hotels Group, Marriott International, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, United Airlines, and American Airlines. The company was co-founded by The Boston Consulting Group and CEO Jeffrey G. Katz, the former founding chairman, president and CEO of Orbitz Worldwide and former president of SABRE’s Travel Information Network and CEO of Swissair. In October 2020 Journera raised $11.6M in a Series B funding round and intends to use the funds to commercialize the platform across the travel industry, launch a Recovery Analytics offering, and invest in software development and sales and marketing. Journera provides a software platform that enables travel-related companies to create end-to-end, secure and private travel journeys by bringing together data from across the trip. The platform's core is the GXR (Global Experience Record), which creates a real-time view of the travel journey across airlines, hotels, ground transportation and other services. Companies access Journera via publish-and-subscribe APIs to implement innovations and operational integrations, such as automatic rental-car rebooking after flight cancellations, early hotel room readiness, and bag delivery to hotel rooms. The platform also enables travel companies to implement existing partnerships in an efficient, real-time manner. Co-founded by The Boston Consulting Group and Jeffrey G. Katz, Journera launched in 2016 and attracted initial investors including major airlines and hotel groups. The company plans to use the Series A proceeds to grow its technology and business development teams and accelerate scaling of the platform.

Total raised

$31M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Jun 2022