Duffel

The complete toolkit to sell travel.

duffel.com

HQ: London, England, United Kingdom

51-200

Consumer

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 16, 2026

Overview

Duffel is a London-based travel technology company that provides an API and related tools for businesses to sell, book, and manage travel, including flights, stays, car rentals, and travel extras, with a focus on simplifying travel infrastructure for developers and travel sellers.

Primary product

Travel booking API/platform for flights, stays, cars, and travel extras

Founded

2017

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Team size

11-50

Work style

Hybrid

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

Travel technology / travel APIs

Offices

London, United Kingdom

New York, United States

Business model

B2B SaaS

API platform

transaction-based travel distribution

enterprise software

Funding

Stage

Series B

Total raised

$56.3M

Latest round

Series B · Oct 2019

Latest amount

$30M

Series B

Oct 2019 · Index Ventures

$30M

Series A

Jun 2019 · Benchmark

$21.5M

Seed

Sep 2018

$125K

People & investors

Leadership

Steve Domin

Co-founder & CEO

Tom Bates

Co-founder

Scott Brodows

VP of Revenue

Tim Rogers

Head of Product

Erin Dunklee

Head of Travel Operations

Rebecca Jones

Head of Customer Success

Caroline Pearson

Head of Legal & Compliance

Nicola O'Farrell

Head of Finance

Sian Paton

People Operations Partner

Selina Dodds

People Partner

Ophelia Brown

Board Director

Founders

Vincent Pastor

Co-founder

Investors

Benchmark

Blossom Capital

Crankstart Foundation

Index Ventures

Kima Ventures

The Crankstart Foundation

Y Combinator

Work & culture

Duffel emphasizes a people-first, collaborative culture with transparency, a no-blame engineering mindset, cross-functional teamwork, and building products for a global travel market. Public careers and blog content stress friendly interviewing, regular postmortems, and strong support for family leave and learning.

Work style

Hybrid

Compensation

Public signals indicate competitive base salary, annual review, and stock options; no public salary bands were found in the reviewed sources.

Benefits

Competitive compensation with annual review and stock options

Hybrid working (office 2 days/week)

Work from anywhere 60 days/year

12-week paid sabbatical after 4 years

27 days annual leave plus public holidays

Enhanced family leave

Travel allowance

Private healthcare / wellbeing support

Pension match up to 5%

Learning & development budget

Study leave up to 4 days/year

Paid volunteering day

Product & market

Pricing

Not publicly detailed; appears to be a B2B API/platform model with commercial agreements and transaction-driven usage.

Differentiators

—Single API for flights, stays, cars, and extras
—Designed for fast integration versus legacy travel systems
—Developer-friendly tooling and modern stack
—Direct access to airline inventory and multiple hotel sources
—Focus on embedded travel inside other platforms
—No-blame, product-and-engineering-led culture

Technology

Elixir

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

PostgreSQL

Redis

Terraform

Kubernetes

Grafana

Prometheus

Google Cloud Platform

BigQuery

Cloudflare

Stripe

Braintree

Adyen

Segment

Figma

Jira

Zendesk

Customers

Rippling

travel sellers

corporate travel platforms

fintech platforms

airlines

Competitors

Amadeus

Sabre

Travelport

Navan

Hopper

Spotnana

Airwallex Travel

Deem

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

~USD 1M–5M annually (Exa estimate: USD 1.4M)

Estimated monthly visits

91.1K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

Signals & risks

Other

Jun 2022

Reuters reported Duffel had gone into default in July 2021 and that American Industrial Partners became the legal and beneficial owner after refinancing efforts failed, following debt tied to GFG Alliance's wider distress.

Source

Other

Feb 2024

Duffel announced hiring a new VP of Revenue to accelerate US expansion; this is not a risk event itself but signals ongoing growth and market expansion rather than distress.

Source

Latest news

Introducing Duffel Cars: one API for flights, stays and now car rentals

Duffel · Apr 2026

Duffel expanded beyond flights and stays into car rentals, saying the launch followed a year of record growth and that it had crossed $900 million in annualized total transaction value.

Duffel launches Duffel Cars

LinkedIn · Apr 2026

Duffel announced car rentals via the same API, extending its multi-product travel offering. Public post surfaced in Exa search; direct post URL not fully captured in source excerpt.

Duffel partners with Rippling to power Rippling Travel

Duffel · Jul 2025

Duffel announced a partnership with Rippling to embed travel booking into Rippling Travel, highlighting Duffel's role as an API-powered travel infrastructure provider.

We now support Card as an available payment method

Duffel changelog · Nov 2024

Duffel made card payments generally available after a closed beta, highlighting PCI DSS Level 1 certification and 3DS support.

Traveltek Announces Duffel Integration Into iSell Platform

Duffel · Apr 2024

Duffel announced an integration with Traveltek’s iSell platform to simplify access to airline content through a single API and expand flight-shopping capabilities.

Jobs and careers at Duffel

14 jobs at Duffel

Head of Technical Support

Remote

Customer Success

London, United Kingdom; London, London, United Kingdom

3d ago

Remote

Full-time