GoEuro Secures $4M From Battery Ventures, Hasso Plattner And Angels For Multi-Mode Travel Search Engine

A couple of years ago there was an ambitious startup called Zoombu which concentrated on aggregating transport solution ‘across platforms’ – in other words linking up trains, buses and airline time tables and allowing users to book. Indeed, the search engine - which launched in 2008 - was in much use during the ‘Ash Cloud’ incident in Europe in 2010 as people frantically tried to find over-land routes across the continent. But the heavy-lifting involved in aggregating all that data, combined with a difficult investment environment at the time meant that Zoombu's team took the 'acquihire' route, exiting to Skyscanner in 2011. Now a new player emerges today, attempting to do almost exactly the same thing - but this time GoEuro, based in Berlin, wil have a $4 million seed round to do it with.]]>

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