Gogobot Unveils Plans To Evolve Online Travel, Takes $4 Million From Battery Ventures
June 14, 2010 at 13:36 PM EDT
Apparently it's former MySpace exec venture capital funding day. Earlier we announced the BeachMint news ($5 million). And now gogobot , a new travel website founded by MySpace’s former GM International Travis Katz and Ori Zaltzman , the former Chief Architect of Yahoo Boss, are announcing an impressive venture funding of their own. They first hinted about their startup in March. They aren't saying much about gogobot now, except that they think online travel is still woefully inadequate when it comes to discovery and that adding a social layer may fix that problem. "Online travel is a $100 billion a year market in the U.S., and there has been very little innovation in this space in the last ten years," Katz tells me. "We will leverage the social graph to make planning trips easy and fun." I'm in!