Best Online Travel Companies in Illinois, United States
The 57 best Online Travel companies in Illinois, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Orbitz.
Ranked: Best Online Travel companies in Illinois
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AdventureFinder Online platform for booking adventure activities | — | — | Deadpooled | — | Barney Harford ex-CEO | — | — | — |
| 2 | AmTrav Provider of a platform for managing business travel arrangements and bookings | — | — | Acquired | 169 | — | HubSpot CMS HubEnvoyBootstrap+27 | — | — |
| 3 | Avail Peer-to-peer car rental platform | — | — | Unfunded | 133 | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Axus Travel App Travel itinerary platform for professionals, enhancing collaboration and efficiency | — | — | Acquired | 281 | — | Google MapsW3.CSSBootstrap+13 | — | — |
| 5 | BookingDirection Add-on for hotel websites to increase sales and revenue | — | — | Deadpooled | 3 | Eran Savir Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 6 | CheapTickets Travel services booking portal | — | — | Acquired | 1,051 | Michael George Hartley Co-founder | Apple iCloud MailTypeScriptGraphQL+19 | — | — |
| 7 | Clarcity Integrated travel and expense management solution for businesses of all sizes | — | — | Funding Raised | 9 | Nate Klein Founder & President | — | — | — |
| 8 | CorpTrav Travel management solution for the business travelers | — | — | Acquired | 3 | Bonnie Lorefice Founder & Chairman | — | — | — |
Top 12 Online Travel companies in Illinois
#1
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2020 · 42 employees$5Mraised▾
Online platform that provides travel recommendations from local experts. Travelers can build a wishlist of places they want to go, create trips, add places to them, collaborate with friends, make bookings & more.
- Jan 2024Series A$1.3M
- Apr 2022Series A$3.5M
#2
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2012 · 41 employees$55Mraised▾
Online e-commerce platform for fishing lures and tackle. The platform provides users with fishing products. Users can choose the plan from the platform and receive it on a subscription basis. It offers a mixture of full retail package hard baits and sample packages of terminal tackle and soft plastics.
- Dec 2022Series B$9.3M
- Aug 2022Series B$2.7M
- Apr 2021Series B$38M
- Dec 2020Series A$4.9M
#3
Series C · Ohio, Illinois · founded 2012 · 82 employees$164.2Mraised▾
App-based rental RV sharing P2P marketplace. RV owners list their RV making it available for renters to find the perfect RV for their next vacation. With RVShare, owners keep the profit they earn & are in complete control of who can rent when it's available & what rates are being charged. Renters use RVShare to find the perfect RV for their next vacation.
- Oct 2020Series C$100M
- May 2020Series B$14.2M
- Feb 2018Series B$50M
#4
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2014 · 80 employees$56Mraised▾
Online marketplace of fishing products. Travelers can discover & buy products via the platform & can make an online payment.
- Apr 2021Series B$38M
- Dec 2020Series B$6M
- Oct 2017Series A$3.5M
#5
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 1999 · 600 employees$500Mraised▾
Orbitz.com is a part of Orbitz Worldwide which operates other online travel sites: ebookers, CheapTickets and HotelClub. Orbitz lets users book online flight tickets, hotels, cars, activities, and cruises. It also offers Orbitz credits points which can be redeemed by frequent flyers. In Dec. 2003 the company went pubic and in Sept. 2004, it was acquired by Cendant Corporation for $1.25 billion, which rolled Oribitz into its online travel segment, named Travelport. Cedant then sold Travelport to private equity firm Blackstone Group in June 2006. Blackstone and Travelport spun off Orbitz to the public market in July 2007. In February 2015, Expedia announced that it would acquire Orbitz for $1.2 billion in cash.
- Mar 2013Conventional Debt$500M
#6
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2015 · 135 employees$19.2Mraised▾
Remote year is a one year subscription program where there will be a $2,000 fee on the 1st of every month of Remote Year in addition to a $3,000 down payment to reserve a spot, this includes all commute and accommodation costs for a period of 1 year. The participants can work remotely if they get a job on their own.
- Sep 2019Series A$7M
- Oct 2016Series A$12M
- May 2015Seed$175K
#7
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2009 · 26 employees$7.1Mraised▾
VacayHome Connect is the provider of a distribution and marketing platform for vacation rentals. Its features include channel management, digital marketing, content management and optimization, membership, and loyalty distribution, and more. It can also be integrated with existing CMS and PMS. Its clients include Canyon Services, Vacation Rental Pros, HomeAway, and others.
- Jun 2016Series A$685K
- Aug 2015Series A$4.1M
- Nov 2014Series A$2.3M
- Oct 2014Series A$4.1M
#8
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2006 · 2 employees$11.7Mraised▾
Local travel guides for planning trips to global destinations. This platform provides recommendations for exploring popular travel destinations worldwide. It offers local insights on the best things to do, hotels, restaurants, and attractions. Users can plan trips to various locations across North America, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, Oceania, Central America, Asia, and Africa. The service aims to provide a local perspective for travelers seeking authentic experiences. It is a resource for individuals looking to explore and discover new places with insider knowledge. The platform supports travel planning by offering curated information and recommendations.
- Feb 2011Venture Debt—
- Dec 2010Series C$3.5M
- Aug 2010Series B$200K
- Jun 2008Series B$8M
#9
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2022 · 6 employees$199.9Kraised▾
App-based community platform for travelers. Users can create itineraries through the platform by communicating with other users. App is available for both Android and iOS devices.
- May 2022Seed$199.9K
#10
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2012 · 28 employees$10.3Mraised▾
Rocketmiles buys miles from airlines which it then links to stays with its partner hotels. Customers earn an average of 7,000 miles per booking. It basically focuses on delivering hand picked hotels at the same price as other aggregators. The company buys its hotel rooms at a lower rate and resells them at a higher price, earning revenue to purchase miles for its customers.
- Dec 2013Series A$8.3M
- Apr 2013Seed$2M
#11
Series A · Deerfield, Illinois · founded 2011 · 6 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Trippy is an online social platform to raise/answer Q&A related to travel. Their aim is to simplify & improve the traveling plans through friend-sourcing. The platform ties with user's social networks like Facebook & discovers which of the contacts have visited the desired destination. It lets users suggest which hotels or destinations would be a good fit. It provides a solution to the problem of untrustworthy & irrelevant travel content.
- Apr 2014Series A$3.5M
- Nov 2011Seed$1.8M
#12
Acqui-Hired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2007 · 10 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Where I've Been is a social networking application that marked its users' travel history on a color-coded map. The site collected user-generated content such as photos, videos and reviews. It is a personalized and interactive world map that lets users share their travels.
- Apr 2010Seed$750K
- Angel$1M
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