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Launchtrip

Group travel booking platform

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21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • Hospitality
  • B2B
  • Travel
  • Marketplace
  • Payments
Coal Harbour, Vancouver, BC

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Company mission

To make the best platform for group trips, taking on the bigger, traditional industry players.

Our take

Launchtrip’s group-focused travel app allows users to book trips, accommodation, transportation, events, and restaurants in their destination, while giving them the ability to invite others to join and split costs.

While the travel booking space is pretty well dominated by the likes of Agoda, Booking.com, Expedia, and Airbnb, Launchtrip’s special focus on group travel and cost splitting does fill a gap in the market.

The fact that the company also offers discounts for booking multiple rooms, an oversight by most legacy travel tech companies, could give Launchtrip an edge.

After securing promising funding, the company has invested heavily in its own advisory board, recruiting former leaders from legacy travel tech companies like Expedia and HomeAway.

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Benefits

  • Full Benefits: Medical, Dental and Vision
  • Competitive rewards package including company stock options
  • 30 day remote work allowance with department and team off-sites to anywhere in the world
  • Flexible work environment with a focus on reducing burn-out
  • Major focus on physical and mental wellness with ongoing internal initiatives, programs, and subsidizations
  • Bonuses that go beyond performance in your job role. Be recognized for your engagement with team members, your ability to exercise the company ethos and upholding our company core values
  • Opportunity for personal and career growth with access to continued education, certifications and training
  • Work with one of the most fun and passionate teams in Vancouver
  • We’re an active bunch and we love spending time inside and outside

Company values

  • Passion for travel and an obsession with innovation
  • Passion for creating extraordinary experiences, from beginning to end

Funding (1 round)

Mar 2021

$3.8m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $3.8m

Leadership

Julian Ing

(CEO)

Sold first company, Quantum Publishing at 26 to Trader Publications. Since then, founded and led Giant Interactive, Eruptive Games, and Simply Technology Corp, all of which sold / merged.