The Innovators #5 - Yapta

Yapta - Your Amazing Personal Travel Assistant - is a travel shopping website delivering a unique combination of price assurance and transparency to consumers who have purchased air travel online. It also alerts customers of price changes and changes to rewards redemption values.

 

The founders - including Tom Romary - claim there is no other travel website which automatically and continously checks flight-specific prices.

 

It is venture funded, raising $2.3 million is seed captial from First Round Capital, Voyager Capital, Swiftsure Capital and Bay Partners in July 2007.

 

Here is Yapta's Megan Kiernan:

 


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