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Travala
Blockchain travel booking platform
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Travel
- Cryptocurrency
- Marketplace
- Blockchain
- Eccleston, UK
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Company mission
To bring to the travel industry as a whole transparent pricing, innovation, authentic truth, enhanced security, and efficient stakeholder interaction.
Our take
Travala is a holiday booking website that has turned heads as a travel industry disruptor. As one of the first blockchain and crypto-based travel booking websites, Travala has defied expectations and amassed a diverse range of listings. Its marketplace has grown to 2M+ properties and more than 90,000 destinations across the globe.
Despite the instability of some cryptocurrencies, Travala’s Ava is a bitcoin specifically tied to the company and therefore its value rises and falls with Travala itself. Despite potential instability, the use of the coin promotes incentives through discounts on the Travala website, theoretically leading to savings on holiday bookings and a business ecosystem that keeps it running independently.
The future looks bright for Travala, which has created a seemingly stable travel ecosystem through its bitcoin. But as is the nature of the crypto industry, no good thing is set in stone.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Social insurance & contributions & insurance
- 13th-month salary and bonus based on job results
- Premium 24/7 accident insurance & private healthcare coverage for you and your family members
- High-end working equipment with all peripherals you need to work comfortably. 100% of our employees are equipped with MacBooks
- Being set up to a smart member account on Travala.com to enjoy the Smart program benefits & rewards
- Hybrid working mode in support of work-life balance
- Free coffee, tea, and snacks at the office
- Team bonding activities throughout the years celebrating new hires onboarding, work anniversaries, and birthdays. Annual events such as Year End Party and Company trip are also on the program
- Super fast-paced growing startup with a young, dynamic, and professional working environment
- Exposure to cutting-edge & trending technologies (Blockchain, Web3, FinTech, etc.)
Company values
- User-Focused - Travala puts the needs of its users first. It solves their issues, listens to their feedback, and ensurex that their experience is rewarding. In everything Traval does, it asks itsels: “How will this affect our users?”
- Freedom - Travala's values are grounded in the principles of freedom. Externally, it promotes the freedom of travel to its users. Internally, it promotes the freedom for all team members to execute tasks autonomously in a manner that best suits them.
- Collaboration - Travala works together to achieve its shared goals. While it may have specialised teams, it works in unity as one team, not in isolation. It collaborates, it communicates, and it creates.
- Hardcore - Travala moves fast, it works hard, it delivers. It loves ideas, and it loves seeing them come to life. Travala figures out what works, what doesn’t, and executes accordingly.
- Integrity - Travala delivers it's services ethically and with integrity. It strives to go the extra mile. It's accountable to each other and to our customers. When things go wrong, It looks for solutions, not scapegoats.
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2020
$1.3m
SEED
Jan 2020
$0.4m
SEED
Total funding: $2.2m
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Leadership
Juan Otero
(CEO & Co-Founder)Currently Innovation & Technology Advisor at European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Innovation Advisor at European Commission, Startup Mentor at muru-D, Startup Mentor at Founder Institute.
Matt Lucz
(Co-Founder)Currently Founder at HoDooi, DAO Member at Launchblock.com. Previously UK-China Accelerated Entrepreneurship Programme at Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Business Strategist at Network of International Business Schools.
Steven Hipwell
(COO & Co-Founder)Previously Marketing Director at Viland Travel, Marketing Director at Oasis Bay Cruises, Business Owner at Essential WP and Star Lead Generation.