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TripActions, a fast-growing Silicon Valley business travel platform, has landed in Austin to tap into the region's tech talent pool. The company, based in Palo Alto, Calif., has opened an office in downtown Austin at 600 Congress Ave. with a 25-person team. It says it plans to double its local headcount by the end of the year. The Austin office follows TripActions' recent $155 million funding deal, which was led by Andreessen Horowitz. The investment increased the company's valuation to $5 billion. TripActions currently has a 63-person office in Dallas and another 40 remote Texas-based emp...

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more Eyebrows will be raised at TripActions’ $155 million funding round, considering business travel’s very uncertain future. Investors on Thursday threw yet more cash at the travel booking and expense platform. This Series E round follows its $125 million raising in June last year, and tops off an eventful few weeks for several other corporate travel startups. So far TripActions has secured a total of $790 million, and the company claims it’s now valued at $5 billion, ...

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