GoEuro ground travel app takes fresh 基金s to 延長する reach to 30 countries
By Eric Auchard
FRANKFURT, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Travel 調書をとる／予約するing 場所／位置 GoEuro has raised $70 million in a new 基金ing 一連の会議、交渉／完成する led by 最高の，を越す Silicon Valley 投資家s - becoming one of the few European 投機・賭ける-基金d 会社／堅いs to 橋（渡しをする） the 基金ing gap that stops 約束ing start-ups from later 行う／開催する／段階 拡大.
The 最新の 一連の会議、交渉／完成する was led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk, the growth 資本／首都 arm of 私的な 公正，普通株主権 会社／堅い Silver Lake, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The two 投資家s have 支援するd a string of start-up successes 含むing Skype and Spotify.
Berlin-based GoEuro 拒絶する／低下するd to comment on where the fundraising leaves it ーに関して／ーの点でs of valuation, but 示唆するd in a 声明 that it was on 跡をつける to 達成する coveted "unicorn" status, which 言及するs to 会社／堅いs valued at $1 billion or more.
"GoEuro is now 均衡を保った to join the small circle of European start-ups seen to have the 可能性のある to become multi-billion dollar companies," the company said.
The company said it 計画（する）s to use the 基金s to 拡大する its ground travel and 国内の flight 調書をとる／予約するing service to 30 countries in Europe from the 12 mostly Western European markets it serves, Naren Shaam, the company's 創立者 and 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある said in an interview.
While search 場所／位置s for 航空機による travel abound, GoEuro specialises in hooking into the 調書をとる／予約するing systems of ground transportation n etworks, which remain underdeveloped, with more than 80 パーセント of tickets still sold in 地元の 駅／配置するs.
Travellers can 調書をとる／予約する 旅行s with more than 500 European 輸送（する） 操作者s, 含むing 鉄道 companies, bus 操作者s and 航空機によるs 申し込む／申し出ing flights within the 地域. The 場所／位置 供給するs a 範囲 of ground transportation 関係s.
"We are the largest source of （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） on ground transportation 選択s in Europe. It is a 抱擁する 障壁 to 入ること／参加（者）," Shaam said. The company enables travellers both within and beyond Europe to 調書をとる／予約する tickets on their 動きやすい phones.
"Many 操作者s don't have 動きやすい 使用／適用s. You should be able to click a button and hop on the next train."
GoEuro says it attracts 10 million 使用者s a month to its travel 調書をとる／予約するing app. That's 井戸／弁護士席 いっそう少なく than a tenth of the audience of １０年間-old 航空機による and hotel search 場所／位置 Trivago, but GoEuro is distinguished by its 焦点（を合わせる） on ground travel.
The 場所／位置 許すs 消費者s to search in 12 languages, 含むing Chinese and ロシアの, and nearly a third of GoEuro 使用者s are tourists from overseas, Shaam says.
Trivago, which was 設立するd in 2004 in Duesseldorf and acquired by 全世界の travel 場所／位置 Expedia in 2012, is planning a U.S. 株式市場 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）ing in coming months (http://reut.rs/2dp6aai). It operates 55 travel 場所／位置s 世界的な.
GoEuro has raised $146 million since its 設立するing four-and-a-half years ago. Last December, GoEuro raised $45 million from an arm of Goldman Sachs and 最高の，を越す 指名する European 投機・賭ける 資本主義者s and entrepreneurs (http://reut.rs/2dEvC9w).
(報告（する）／憶測ing By Eric Auchard; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
