After operating in stealth mode since late 2019, a new corporate travel platform called Spotnana is launching this week with $41 million already
raised and several industry veterans involved as investors, advisors and executives.
Spotnana co-founder and CEO Sarosh Waghmar, founder
of travel management company WTMC, says the cloud-native, API-friendly platform
is “not just a booking tool or a better UI; this is something much
fundamentally deeper – like an AWS for travel.”
Waghmar and co-founder and CTO
Shikhar Agarwal raised a $7 million seed round in 2020 and $34 million in Series
A funding round in July, led by ICONIQ Capital and Madrona Venture Group with
participation from Decibel and Mubadala Capital.
Madrona managing director
Steve Singh, founder and former CEO of Concur, becomes chair of Spotnana’s
board, and ICONIQ Capital general partner Greg Stanger, former CFO at Expedia
and Duetto, becomes a board member. Bill Brindle,…