diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 79af2cb4d..b786795e6 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ install:
   - "pip install -r requirements.txt"
   - "python setup.py build_ext --inplace"
   - "mkdir -p corpora/en"
+  - "export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`"
   - "python bin/init_model.py lang_data/en corpora/en spacy/en/data"
 
 # run tests