Heygo raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by Northzone and joined by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Point 9 Capital, TQ Ventures and Ascension

Heygo, a London, UK-based software startup building a marketplace for virtual travel tours, announced completing a $20 million series A funding round.

The money was raised from investors led by Northzone, and joined by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Point 9 Capital, TQ Ventures and Ascension Ventures. The round included contributions from mulptiple angel investors, including Guillaume Pousaz, founder of Checkout; Lawrence Leuschner, founder of Tier; Bastian Lehmann, founder of Postmates; Scott Chacon, founder of Github (through SCNE Ventures); Ian Hogarth, founder of Songkick; Matt Robinson, founder of GoCardless and Nested; Richard Mabey, founder of Juro; and others.

Michiel Kotting, partner at Northzone, will join as a board member in the company together with Paul Murphy from Lightspeed and Kolja Hebenstreit from Point Nine Capital.

Heygo, founded in 2020 by CEO John Tertan and Liam Garrison, developed a video marketplace providing access to pre-recorded or live tours from places from all over the world. The company says it provides tour guides in more than 90 countries, made by guides who can share the places and subjects they love on their own live channels with a global audience while earning money via tips. The company says it handles a rate of 2 million bookings per month.

Prior to this deal, Heygo raised pre-seed funding from Ascension Ventures back in January 2021 as well as a seed round led by Point Nine Capital in December 2021.