Travel & Hospitality Startups

LeWalk provides personalized audio-guided experiences for travelers exploring destinations, matching them with expert guides and creators who deliver contextual storytelling through a mobile app.

3 investors

Localbird enables short-term rental hosts to monetize local expertise by sharing insider recommendations and experiences with guests. The platform helps hosts enhance guest stays, increase earnings, and build memorable travel experiences through curated local knowledge.

3 investors

Loco Partners operates Relux, an online booking platform for hotels and traditional inns in Japan.

3 investors

Lumo builds flight intelligence tools that predict and quantify flight delay and disruption risk, serving corporate travelers, travel agencies, travel managers, developers, and airline operations teams. Its products provide proactive alerts, real-time dashboards, disruption forecasting, and APIs for integrating predictive travel data.

3 investors

M Village operates a chain of hotels and accommodations in Vietnam, offering room bookings, a loyalty rewards program, and services for hotel property owners. It provides a lifestyle mobile app and serves both individual guests and business customers.

3 investors

Mage Market operates a real-time bid/ask marketplace for buying and selling collectibles, matching bids with asks to execute transactions automatically. It acts as an active intermediary and verifies every card through its experts to prevent counterfeits and fakes.

3 investors

Magic Memories provides photography and imaging products and services for attractions and tourism venues, helping them capture and sell guest photo experiences. It offers a platform for partner venues to enhance visitor engagement and generate revenue from photo memories.

3 investors

Marco Experiences provides an AI-powered platform for teams to search, compare, and book group hotel accommodations with exclusive negotiated rates, typically 20-40% below retail, without fees or contracts.

3 investors

MarginFuel builds price optimisation software using forecasting and machine learning to help rental vehicle operators set profitable dynamic pricing, and is expanding into mobility-as-a-service providers. It serves the tourism and transportation sector with predictive modelling, fleet flow optimisation, and daily price recommendations.

3 investors

Meragi provides fully managed wedding venues and destination weddings across India, handling planning, décor, catering, hospitality, vendor coordination, and day-of execution under a single accountable team. It offers a tech-enabled experience with a catalog of over 10,000 designs and standardized service across curated venues in locations such as Jaipur, Goa, Udaipur, and Bangalore.

3 investors

mobi.ai builds an AI-powered suite of optimization and distribution services for the travel and travel-retail industry, aimed at improving loyalty, conversion, and planning efficiency. Its tools automate decision-making to help travel businesses scale capacity without adding headcount.

3 investors

Museum of Illusions is a chain of privately held museums featuring interactive optical illusion exhibits and photo experiences for visitors of all ages. First opened in Zagreb, Croatia in 2015, it operates 70+ locations across more than 30 countries.

3 investors

Odessia is an AI travel concierge that plans and books entire trips through a conversation, covering flights, hotels and homes, activities, and itineraries. It provides personalized, commission-free recommendations, searches airlines and routes beyond Google Flights, and identifies credit-card points deals to lower costs for travelers.

3 investors

Odynn is an AI-powered, modular white-label platform with APIs that lets fintechs, banks, card issuers, and travel companies launch embedded travel, loyalty, and rewards programs. It connects cardholders to airline, hotel, and bank loyalty programs through a program manager designed to boost engagement, retention, and revenue.

3 investors

Onefinestay curates and manages luxury private homes and villas for short-term rental and hospitality in major global destinations. The company serves high-end travelers seeking bespoke accommodations and property owners looking to monetize their residences.

3 investors

Outsite provides co-living and co-working spaces for remote workers and location-independent professionals, operating a network of locations worldwide. The company serves a global community of long-term travelers seeking to combine work and travel.

3 investors

Phunware operates a configurable, multi-tenant Guest Intelligence Platform for resorts and hotels that unifies location, PMS, POS, mobile, and transactional data into a single property model. Its capabilities—including indoor navigation, an AI concierge, mobile app framework, and analytics—help hospitality teams guide guests, understand activity, and drive bookings and ancillary revenue.

3 investors

Plusgrade provides white-label ancillary revenue solutions for airlines, rail, cruise, and hospitality brands, letting travelers bid for or purchase upgrades, extra seat space, priority services, and stay extensions. It also operates loyalty commerce products through its Points subsidiary, enabling loyalty program members to earn, exchange, and redeem points and miles.

3 investors

Pointhound helps people book airline flights at 40-90% discounts by using credit card points strategically instead of cash. The platform searches 150+ airlines to find point-redemption deals for consumers and offers premium membership with curated flight digests and booking alerts.

3 investors

Polarsteps is an app that helps travelers plan, track, and share their journeys on a world map, serving explorers and adventure seekers worldwide.

3 investors

QiDZ Holding, based in the United Arab Emirates, develops a mobile app focused on children's activities. Parents use it to browse and book classes, entertainment options, restaurants and deals suited to different age groups, with instant online booking.

3 investors

Radical Storage (formerly Bagbnb) operates a digital platform that connects travelers with baggage storage locations at partner businesses such as bars, shops, and hotels. The company operates in the digital travel and tourism sector, monetizing through commission-based transactions.

3 investors

Raus offers cabin accommodations for couples seeking getaway experiences in nature.

3 investors

Red Dot Payment operates a PCI DSS Level 1 compliant payment gateway designed for hospitality businesses to process online room bookings and dining promotions securely. The platform enables hotels to accept payments through customizable branded pages while providing real-time transaction visibility and support through major international booking engines.

3 investors