Trivop Takes $800,000 for Hotel Video
Updated with funding amount.
Trivop, a Paris-based travel video startup, will announce tomorrow it has raised funding from a strong group of angel investors. It’s interesting to see funding coming to niche video sites, especially such a specific niche — Trivop focuses solely on video guides to hotels.
The funding, which is of an undisclosed amount amounting to 0.6 million Euros ($0.8 million), came from prominent angel investors and entrepreneurs, most of them European: Mörten Lund, Steve and Jean-Emile Rosenblum, Oliver Jung, Lukäsz Gadowski, Loïc Le Meur, and Aydin Senkut.
The site, which has a nice, map-based interface, is currently lacking content. It appears to index only 164 hotels, nearly all of them in France. However, Trivop claims it has a worldwide network of more than 900 filmmakers. The company promises to add user-generated uploads “in the next few weeks.”
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[...] The funding came from Balderton Capital and Partech International. Close competitor Trivop recently raised $800,000. Both companies are based in Paris and focus on European [...]
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Sounds a lot like what TurnHere has been up to of late. With Google Earth integration and all. I’m working on a similar project with gophila.com (Philadelphia’s tourism and marketing org) to create map-based video media about certain neighborhoods… It’s a pretty awesome idea if it can be implemented right.
Wonder where they got all their network of filmmakers…
You’re right, similar to TurnHere, though at the moment this is a destination site so the business model would be advertising rather than commissions.