Jetpac gets $2.4 million in funding -- social travel or album peering?
Skift Take
Pictures are worth 1,000 words and there seems to be that many social travel apps and sites. Most of them feature photo boards and images, and Jetpac is one of the latest entries.
Source: Skift
Author: Dennis Schaal
Jetpac, the social travel iPad app, picked up $2.4 million in funding and introduced an Atlas feature, enabling you to peruse your Facebook friends' photos taken everywhere from Abu Dhabi to Yunnan, China.
The dinero comes from Khosla Ventures, Morado Venture Partners, Jerry Yang (Yahoo co-founder) and an unidentified Facebook honcho, TechCrunch reports.
Social travel sites and apps are the trend du jour, of course, and until the inevitable