Kango and LeisureLogix

These two, new travel start-up companies launched last week by two ex-portal guys, Yen Lee (Yahoo Travel) and Jeff DeKorte (AOL Travel).

About Kango
"Personalized travel planning for family vacations and more. Our mission is to help people plan vacations that they absolutely love." More on Kango from TechCrunch.

Given how competitive it is in Silicon Valley for talent, TechCrunch points out what a solid team Kango has put together and I agree, "CEO Yen Lee is a former general manager of Yahoo Travel. His search architect, Huanjin Chen, used to be the search architect at eBay. His natural-language search scientist, Boris Galitsky, used to do work for the British government. And his head of marketing, Elliott Ng, headed up marketing for Intuit’s QuickBooks and is the founder of Netcentives."

About LeisureLogix
"Eighty-eight percent? That's the percentage of travelers in the U.S. who use their cars for vacations. And despite the overwhelming size of this market, there is nothing online that offers personalized, integrated road trip and route planning with reservation capabilities and extensive travel information and activities.LeisureLogix is working to change that."