Travel management platform Goodwings has secured another $1.5 million in funding from investors to help grow its sustainability-focused products.
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The Denmark-based technology company bills itself as a ¡°climate-focused¡± SaaS (software as a service) platform, which helps organisations to reduce their emissions from business travel ¡°in line with net zero goals¡±.
Goodwings¡¯ ¡°late seed¡± funding includes new investments from Dutch ¡°clean economy¡± fund Global Cleantech Capital and JTB USA, which is a subsidiary of Japan-based global travel agency JTB Corporation.
The company, which was set up in 2015 and is a B Corp certified company, allows corporates to book all their travel within a single platform.?
Goodwings then uses its booking revenue to reduce clients¡¯ Scope 3 travel emissions by buying sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and carbon offsets. It also provides clients with emissions calculations, reductions and data for ESG reporting purposes.
Founder and CEO Christian M?ller-Holst said: ¡°The investment and strategic partnership with JTB USA presents a huge growth opportunity for Goodwings. The market is primed for solutions like ours and we're excited to see what the collaboration between our two businesses can deliver.¡±
The Goodwings platform provides content from GDS, APIs and NDC-based platforms for flights, as well as from GDS and global OTAs Booking.com and Expedia for accommodation. While rail content comes from Trainline and operators such as Germany¡¯s Deutsche Bahn and Amtrak in the US, with plans to increase ¡°these platforms over time¡±.
Geert de Boo, VP of global business travel at JTB USA, added: ¡°There¡¯s a seismic shift taking place across the travel sector. With sustainability now dominating the corporate agenda, it will be businesses that lead from the front that will reap the benefits.¡±
Goodwings said it had already seen a ¡°huge increase in subscriptions¡± from clients over the past 12 months as businesses prepare for new legislation and seek to reduce their carbon footprint.