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Travora Media Inc. is the next generation of travel media and information –– 300 sites and 35 million travelers strong.   Travora offers exclusive publisher representation across all stages of the travel lifecycle.  Publishers include the ever-inspiring Rough Guides, Let’s Go, Not For Tourists, Vayama, Viator and Rand McNally.  Exclusive representation means turnkey sales solutions for publishers, and total access to a 100% Travel Qualified audience for brands.

CEO

Nan-Kirsten Forte

Ms. Forte was named CEO in September 2011 after 13 years of leading the consumer business at WebMD. Most recently she was Executive Vice President, Brand Development and Chief Innovation Officer and before that was Executive Vice President, Consumer Services and an officer of WebMD Health Corp. Nan helped establish WebMD as the #1 health information brand and one of the most trusted overall brands in America. She was instrumental in growing WebMD’s consumer audience from less than 1 million to over 100 million monthly unique users and WebMD Health Corp.'s market cap to more than $2 billion. She spearheaded the creation and launches of WebMD the Magazine, WebMD Video, WebMD Mobile, WebMD Pets, WebMD Baby and WebMD Healthy Beauty. In addition, she oversaw and directed the development and growth of medicinenet.com, emedicinehealth.com and rxlist.com.

Earlier in her career, Nan served as President Programming and Product Development of Medcast, Greenberg News Networks and helped in the sale of that company to WebMD. Prior to that, she was President of Health of iVillage, where she launched Better Health, its first health channel. She has developed new-media programs for companies such as Time Inc., IBM, Mosby, Times-Mirror, NBC, Reader's Digest, Discovery and PBS. Nan began her career in pioneering new media technologies and communication channels with The Center for BioMedical Communications of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. She received a Master's of Science in BioMedical Communications from Long Island University and is an undergraduate of Swarthmore College.

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Sector(s):

Internet Marketing, SaaS

Status:

  Private

StarVest Company Since:

September 2010

StarVest led a Series C Preferred round and joined Rho Ventures and Village Ventures, prior investors in TAN.

Company Founded:

2003

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