Travel planning website Mygola has raised $1.5 million as Series A funding led by Helion Venture Partners. Ashish Gupta from Helion Venture Partners has joined the board of the company. The company's existing investor Blumberg Capital had also participated in this round. Livemint reports that the funds will be used to fund expansion plans in the U.S. The company had previously raised $1 million from DaveMcClure’s 500 Startups, Blumberg Capital and other angel investors. Mygola helps travelers plan their travel by aggregating information related to any destination from across the web. Mygola's website has also been recently revamped. With Twitter integration showing error, I had to sign up on the website using Facebook. On sign in, the website asks you to enter the destination. The website then asks the user to set the duration of the trip, themes like beach, shopping, food & wine, wildlife etc and places. Although the destination entered was Andamans, the search results were all for Thailand. Once the filters are set, the website shows a list of itineraries that other travelers have had in the past traveling the same destination. Users can either choose from that list or create an itinerary from scratch. The window to create custom itineraries did not recognize Andaman & Nicobar islands nor Havelock Island as a city. So I chose Agra instead. Once the destination and the duration was set, the website comes up with options for places to see, stay, eat and go shopping from which a possible itinerary with places…
