Bluesmart Raises $11.5M to Transform Travel; Starts Shipping Highly Anticipated Smart Luggage

Bluesmart Raises $11.5M to Transform Travel; Starts Shipping Highly Anticipated Smart Luggage

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 10/14/15 — , the company behind the world–s first smart, connected luggage, announces today that it has raised a round of funding of $11.5 million. The funding comes from a group of institutional investors — from and to and (YC) — to further its leadership position in the connected travel products market.The round also includes prominent angel investors such as Flight VC–s Gil Penchina, YC–s partner Michael Seibel, MercadoLibre–s ($MELI) founder