Berlin-based travel activities booking platform GetYourGuide raises $75M Series D led by Battery Ventures
Right after Berlin-based travel activities booking platform GetYourGuide announced its $50 million Series C, one of Europe's biggest tourist draws, the city of Paris, was rocked by a series of terrorist attacks.
Context & Ripple Effects
This 2017 round slots into a funding ladder that kept climbing: GetYourGuide followed it with a $484M Series E at a $1B+ valuation led by SoftBank Vision Fund in 2019, a $133M convertible note during the pandemic trough, and a $194M raise at a $2B valuation in 2023. The $75M Series D, led by Battery Ventures rather than a growth-stage crossover fund, was the step that moved the company from mid-stage to the mega-round track.
It also lands in a crowded Berlin travel-booking field: GoEuro had raised a $70M round in 2016 and would follow with a $150M round in 2018, while Tourlane's supplier-coordination booking service pulled Sequoia Capital in that same December — meaning Battery's bet was on standing out in activities specifically, not travel booking generally.
First-order effects
- GetYourGuide gets a US-based lead investor in Battery Ventures and fresh capital to expand its activities inventory roughly a year after its $50M Series C, extending runway ahead of the SoftBank-led round that came next.
Second-order effects
- GoEuro's parallel fundraising in ground-and-air ticketing and Tourlane's Sequoia-backed entry force European travel platforms to compete for the same institutional capital pool, pushing valuations and round sizes upward across the segment.
Third-order effects
- If the pattern holds — and it did — Berlin consolidates as Europe's center for venture-backed travel booking platforms, with successive rounds normalizing nine-figure checks for marketplaces selling experiences rather than transport tickets.
The trend: European online travel marketplaces are scaling through ever-larger venture rounds, with Berlin-based activities and ticketing platforms drawing US growth capital.