{"id":213252,"date":"2025-11-11T13:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-wildyness-secures-pre-seed-funding-to-expand-travel-platform\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T13:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:06:51","slug":"tunisia-wildyness-secures-pre-seed-funding-to-expand-travel-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-wildyness-secures-pre-seed-funding-to-expand-travel-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: WildyNess Secures Pre-Seed Funding to Expand Travel Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">WildyNess, a Tunisian B2B2C traveltech startup, has closed its pre-seed funding round for an undisclosed amount, co-led by Bridging Angels and the African Diaspora Network. The investment marks one of North Africa&#8217;s first venture-backed rounds in Community-Based Tourism (CBT) &#8212; a segment often overshadowed by fintech and e-commerce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Founded in 2021 by Achraf Aouadi and Rym Bourguiba, WildyNess connects conscious travellers with authentic local experiences co-created alongside tourism&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511110020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WildyNess, a Tunisian B2B2C traveltech startup, has closed its pre-seed funding round for an undisclosed amount, co-led by Bridging Angels and the African Diaspora Network. The investment marks one of North Africa&#8217;s first venture-backed rounds in Community-Based Tourism (CBT) &#8212; a segment often overshadowed by fintech and e-commerce. Founded in 2021 by Achraf Aouadi and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":213253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,9873,6141,257,7658,38458,10429,254,5123,4703,653,52849],"class_list":["post-213252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-expand","tag-funding","tag-news","tag-platform","tag-preseed","tag-secures","tag-south-africa-today","tag-travel","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-wildyness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}