GeekWire’s startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter , and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and venture capital directory .Juno co-founders Devon Tivona (left) and Sam Felsenthal. (Juno Photo)Juno, a platform designed to help manage corporate guest travel, raised $2 million in seed funding, the company announced Tuesday.The round was Seattle-based Madrona and Bungalow Ventures. Steve Singh, managing director at Madrona and co-founder of Concur, led the investment for Madrona.Denver-based Juno sees guest travel as a major pain point for companies that have already modernized employee travel with booking tools and automation. When it comes to guests — such as recruits, contractors, trainees, speakers, and customers — many companies still depend on travel agents, spreadsheets, and long email threads to manage their trips.Juno’s platform guides coordinators and their guests through booking, logistics, payments, reimbursements, and reconciliation.Portland, Ore.-based Devon Tivona and Denver-based Sam Felsenthal are co-CEOs and co-founders at Juno. They previously co-founded Pana, another corporate guest travel platform, that was acquired by Coupa in 2021.“Guest travel has always been the glaring gap in the corporate travel stack,” Tivona said in a news release

American Express is set to purchase expense management software firm Center. The deal is aimed at helping American Express (Amex) bolster its services for small businesses, according to a Thursday (March 6) news release. “As a leader in corporate and small business cards, it is our job to deliver innovative products and services that help customers run their businesses more efficiently,” Raymond Joabar, president for global commercial services at Amex, said in the release