TourRadar's global inventory includes over 40,000 different multi-day tours including those related to adventure, culinary, river-cruising, hiking & trekking, and several other types of travel styles.
History
Founded in 2010, TourRadar was created by Australian brothers Travis and Shawn Pittman and was inspired by their social travel website BugBitten. TourRadar was spun-out of Bugbitten in June 2010 and has since grown to include the ability to find, book and review multi-day tours. In June 2013, TourRadar announced a round of angel funding from investors including ex-CEO of Expedia, Erik Blachford. In May 2014, TourRadar appeared on Austria's version of Dragons' Den, "2 Minuten, 2 Millionen", and secured $500,000 USD in funding led by former chief executives from Expedia and HolidayCheck, as well as funding from SpeedInvest, an Austrian Investment Company. In September 2015, TourRadar launched in North America, establishing an office in Toronto, Canada, and named Christian Wolters, former VP of Sales and Marketing at Intrepid Travel, as the company's North America Managing Director. In May, 2016, TourRadar raised $6 million in Series A funding. In September of the same year, the company announced that it would be adding river cruising to its catalogue of bookable tours. In October 2017, TourRadar announced that it had completed a Series B funding round of $10 million. Later that year, TourRadar was named one of the top 3 start-ups in Austria by Trend Magazine. In June 2018, TourRadar raised $50 million in Series C funding, led by Silicon Valley growth venture capital firm, TCV, who previously backed Expedia and Airbnb. The funding also included participation from existing investors Cherry Ventures, Endeit Capital, Hoxton Ventures and Speedinvest. In November, the company was named Austria's Best Start-up of the Year by Trend Magazine. In February 2019, TourRadar launched a contest called Tour the World which included a global search for two strangers willing to travel the world together for 50 days. The winners had their experiences documented by a film crew while they traveled to five different continents.
