Austrian travel site Tripwolf has completed a $2.5 million (£1.8 million) round of VC funding led by German travel guide producer MairDumont and joined by the Holtzbrinck publishing group, according to thealarmclock.com and confirmed to us by the company. The site mixes professional travel advice with user-generated tips and reviews from its online community of 13,000. The money will be spent on The money will be used to improve the site, improve its content and mobile versions: an iPhone version is currently in beta and a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android app is expected soon. Tripwolf is developing French, Spanish and Italian versions of the site to add to the existing English and German versions.
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