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This morning, London-based announced that it has round of funding. The new financing event was led by . According to the company, prior investors and participated in the round as well.

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Duffel, a startup focused on building the connective digital tissue between airlines and booking agents, has raised more than once this year.

The company, founded in 2017 according to SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ data, also closed and announced earlier this year. That round, a $21.5 million infusion announced this June, was led by Benchmark. Blossom led the firm’s of $4.7 million. Overall the company has raised a in known venture capital.

Why Should You Care?

It’s Monday morning and there is a deluge of new rounds to catch up on, so why should you care about this one?

A few reasons. First that it’s a UK-based firm that has raised twice in a year from American investors. That doesn’t happen too frequently. And, second, because what the startup is doing makes sense and could prove lucrative.

According to the company, Duffel helps “travel agencies to plug in directly to airlines’ reservation systems via an API so that they can pull real-time flight offers, make bookings” and so forth. This reminds us of somewhat. Twilio famously connected companies of any size to telephony services via APIs.

Twilio’s post-IPO, public-market ascent is now legendary. Sticking to our loose analogy, as the travel market is enormous, Duffel could find a neat spot inside of a place where being the handoff between supply and demand could prove lucrative.

The tech-powered travel-focused startup space is busy. But well-funded companies in the space like (), (), and () don’t operate in the same space. Sifted that is a Duffel competitor of sorts, though larger by what we reckon are several orders of magnitude.

Capping, you probably haven’t heard of Duffel before today. That’s because it hadn’t launched. Now it has, with a big check in tow. How far it can get before it raises is our next question, but I’d bet you lunch that Duffel picks up more capital in 2020 if its debut goes well.

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