Travel & Hospitality Startups

Red Tricycle, based in the United States, runs an online publication and community for parents looking for activities to do with their children. Its content covers local attractions and outing ideas, filterable by location and audience characteristics such as child age. Readers use it as a guide to family-friendly places and events near them.

3 investors

Revinate operates a direct booking and customer data platform for hotels, using guest data to power marketing campaigns, reservation sales, and guest profiles that reduce reliance on online travel agencies. It serves hoteliers in the hospitality industry to drive direct revenue and repeat bookings.

3 investors

Roadsurfer appears to offer road trip or travel-related services, but the provided page content does not contain sufficient detail to confirm the specific business model or customer segments served.

3 investors

Roamless is building an eSIM-style travel connectivity app that provides global mobile data and connectivity for travelers as an alternative to traditional roaming charges. It targets consumers who travel internationally and want affordable, easy-to-use connectivity worldwide.

3 investors

RocketRez offers a cloud-based ticketing, point-of-sale, and guest experience platform for tours and attractions of all sizes and verticals, helping operators manage revenue, guest experiences, and operations. The company targets the mid-market tours and attractions industry.

3 investors

ROH provides an intelligent payments platform and financial infrastructure for the hospitality industry, using automation to manage the multiple payment touchpoints in hotel transactions. It serves hotels, hospitality brands, and operating groups aiming to increase profitability from payments.

3 investors

Rove Miles is a travel rewards program that lets consumers earn a flexible miles currency from everyday spending and travel bookings, then redeem them for flights and hotel stays across airlines, hotels, and loyalty programs. It offers direct supplier deals for booking flights and hotels, with earning at partner stores on top of existing credit or debit card rewards.

3 investors

Rove is a travel rewards program that lets consumers earn universal "Rove Miles" on top of their existing card rewards when booking travel, shopping, and dining, without requiring a new credit card. Miles can be redeemed for flights and hotels or transferred 1:1 to 20+ airline and hotel loyalty programs.

3 investors

Sailogy is an online platform for booking sailing and yacht holidays, offering around 22,000 boats across worldwide destinations with options for bareboat or skippered charters. It serves leisure travelers—including families, couples, and first-time sailors—in the nautical tourism market, with multilingual customer support.

3 investors

Seatfrog offers a mobile app that lets rail passengers buy tickets, change train times, and bid to upgrade to First Class, serving over 1 million travelers. The company focuses on train travel for European passengers and rail operators.

3 investors

Sensible Weather offers a Weather Guarantee product that automatically reimburses travelers up to 100% of their daily rate or booking cost when qualifying weather (such as rain or excessive heat) occurs during trips or outdoor activities like camping, golf, ski trips, theme parks, and concerts. The guarantee is sold at checkout through the company's travel and hospitality partners, with proactive same-day payouts and no claims process.

3 investors

SilverRail builds rail distribution technology, offering a single API that lets travel retailers sell rail tickets globally and power journey planners that surface best-value train fares. Its platform also provides in-trip features and travel information to improve the digital rail booking experience.

3 investors

SiteMinder is a hotel commerce platform that combines distribution, revenue management, and AI-powered analytics, letting hotels manage rates and availability across 450+ booking channels from one interface. It serves hoteliers seeking to increase bookings, optimize pricing, and improve guest experience.

3 investors

Skitude operates a platform that displays ski resort information including lift and slope status, snow conditions, and weather forecasts for winter sports enthusiasts. The platform aggregates data from multiple sources including resort operators and third-party weather services.

3 investors

Smartvel is a B2B content-as-a-service and MarTech company that uses AI-powered and human-generated content to support customer experience and SEO across channels and sectors. Founded in 2013, it specializes in B2B destination and travel content for businesses, and acquired competitor ArrivalGuides in 2023.

3 investors

Smiler is an online booking service that connects people with local professional photographers for photoshoot sessions and delivers edited photos through a private online gallery within 48 hours. It operates across more than 100 locations for travelers and individuals seeking photoshoots in destinations such as Paris and Venice.

3 investors

SweetEscape connects travelers and individuals with professional photographers in cities worldwide, offering bookable photo shoot packages with edited photos delivered within 48 hours. It handles photographer assignment, editing, and flexible rescheduling for its customers.

3 investors

TeamOut provides an event planning platform that helps companies discover and book venues and activities for team-building events.

3 investors

The Guild operated apartment hotels across U.S. urban markets, offering nightly accommodation in renovated floors of residential buildings combined with hotel-style amenities and technology. The company closed in 2023 after struggling to achieve profitability at scale.

3 investors

The Hotel Network builds personalization and conversion technology that helps hotel brands improve their direct online booking experience and compete for bookings against large online travel players. It serves hotels of varying sizes with tools focused on personalized shopping experiences for travelers.

3 investors

Thrust Carbon provides carbon emissions reporting and reduction solutions for the corporate travel industry, helping companies measure and decarbonise their travel programs. The company applies data-driven methods to sustainability tracking across large corporate travel spend.

3 investors

Timon is a travel payments technology company offering virtual and physical Visa cards, global wallets, money transfers, and international eSIM connectivity for travelers. Its app also lets users book trips at discounted prices and fund accounts via bank transfers or stablecoins.

3 investors

Tourlane creates custom travel packages and tailored itineraries for leisure travelers, pairing customers with English-speaking, native-European travel experts who handle planning, booking, and in-trip support. Founded in Germany in 2016, the company focuses on European travel expertise and personalized tour packages.

3 investors

Tourwriter makes itinerary-creation software for tour operators and travel designers, enabling them to build tailor-made travel itineraries. The company was founded by former travel designers who could not find existing software to fit their needs.

3 investors