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- Travel trends. In 2021, Henley Vazquez noticed two trends. People were eager to travel as cities and borders opened back up, and women were still suffering the effects of the pandemic on their careers, whether they were still out of the workforce or struggling to return.
Vazquez was a two-time founder in the travel industry, and she came up with a business model that would attempt to capitalize on both of those shifts. She's now the cofounder of Fora, a gig economy-style platform for travel agents. In a traditionally analog industry—where travel agents still sometimes took down customers' credit card information on post-its—Fora built a tech platform with a travel-specific customer relationship management tool. The company raised a $13.5 million Series A round in 2022 from investors including Forerunner and Heartcore Capital.
