A San Francisco Bay area startup that runs a travel website geared toward college students has moved to Southern Nevada.
JusCollege said today it had set up shop in Las Vegas, a key source of business for the group.
Founded in 2010 and led by a college dropout, the company says it has more than 60,000 customers at more than 50 campuses nationwide. Customers can book transportation, hotels, dining, VIP club access and music festival packages, along with spring break tours to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
The company's new headquarters, property records indicate, is a 2-story, 2,054-square-foot house near the corner of Windmill Lane and Rainbow Boulevard in the southwest valley.
"We've gained a solid reputation for providing awesome experiences at premium values, and much of our business is centered around this city," CEO Andrew Citores said in a news release.
Startups have moved to Las Vegas after getting funding from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's VegasTechFund. However, that's not the case with JusCollege, according to Tawnya Lancaster, a spokeswoman for the startup.
"It's just a good environment for them," she said.
Citores, now in his mid-20s, dropped out of Loyola Marymount University as a sophomore to focus on building a business that planned college events such as fraternity and sorority parties, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The business later morphed into its current form.
Last year, the company moved from Los Angeles to Menlo Park, Calif., 30 miles south of San Francisco. The group later moved to San Francisco, Lancaster said.
While its sales and marketing team now are in Las Vegas, the company's chief technology officer and some software developers remain in the Bay Area, she said.