Travel & Hospitality Startups

Stayforlong is an online hotel booking platform that offers travelers progressively cheaper rates for longer stays and exclusive discounts through its mobile app. It provides a selection of hotels across destinations, serving consumer travelers.

2 investors

Stayntouch provides a cloud-based property management system (PMS) along with guest mobility and self-service kiosk solutions for hotels, aimed at managing front and back of house operations, contactless check-in, upselling, and rate/availability management. It serves independent hotels, hotel brands, and management companies across the United States, Europe, and other markets.

2 investors

Stay Open operates a 12-bed pod hotel in Venice Beach combining co-working and co-living, offering custom sleeper pods, shared kitchen, cinema room, and rooftop terrace for digital nomads, remote workers, and budget travelers. It provides flexible nightly, weekly, and monthly stays plus full-property buyouts for retreats, and also converts vacant commercial real estate into affordable pod hotels.

2 investors

Swiipr provides a payment platform built for airlines, letting staff issue physical or virtual cards instantly for passenger disruption (IROPs) payments and other needs. It also automates reconciliation, reporting, and compliance with built-in IROPs rules and airline-specific policies.

2 investors

Switchfly provides travel loyalty technology that enables airlines, loyalty programs, and HR tech platforms to offer travel experiences and rewards. The platform facilitates dynamic packaging, personalized offers, and points-plus-cash redemption options for customers and employees.

2 investors

Tern is an all-in-one platform for travel advisors, agencies, and hosts, offering an AI agent plus client-facing workflows and back-office tools for managing clients, trips, bookings, commissions, and advisor performance. It serves solo advisors, growing agencies, and hosts with large numbers of independent contractors, and connects suppliers directly to advisors.

2 investors

Thayer Investment Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in travel technology companies, backing founders building products across sectors such as payments, loyalty, distribution, and operating systems for the travel industry. It has focused on travel tech investing since 2008.

2 investors

Thayer Investment Partners (Thayer Ventures) is a venture capital firm that invests in travel technology startups on behalf of the travel industry, backing companies across payments, cybersecurity, workforce management, loyalty, distribution, and operating systems. It serves entrepreneurs building for hotels, airlines, cruise, agencies, restaurants, events, sports, and experiences.

2 investors

Thrust Carbon provides software for corporate travel programmes to measure, forecast, and reduce carbon emissions and costs, including an EngageAI behavioural nudging tool, an ISO 14083-assured emissions calculator, and advisory services. It serves enterprises and travel managers seeking to cut business travel emissions and build net-zero strategies.

2 investors

Tickitto operates a marketplace with an API that lets brands and developers sell tickets to global experiences and events to their customers. It aggregates supply from official partners so businesses can offer access to experiences through a single integration.

2 investors

TimeLooper is a museum and exhibition design firm that uses AI-driven personalization, immersive digital media, and AR/VR interactivity to create adaptive, accessible museum experiences. It serves cultural institutions and communities, offering storytelling strategy, spatial design, and digital platforms with accelerated project timelines.

2 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.

2 investors

Tiqets is an online platform for booking tickets to museums, attractions, and experiences worldwide, offering instant mobile access, skip-the-line entry, and flexible cancellation. It works with over 3,000 venue partners and serves travelers looking for cultural and entertainment activities.

2 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.

2 investors

Travador is an online travel deals platform offering short getaways and wellness holidays at hotels across Germany, Austria, and Italy. It sells discounted stays, typically including breakfast or half-board, spa access, and pools, presented as bookable travel packages.

2 investors

Travelier operates a network of digital travel booking services covering land and sea transportation, such as rides and voyages. It positions itself as a travel technology platform focused on the digital transformation of trip booking.

2 investors

Travelsist provides travel solutions and services designed to simplify journeys for parents traveling with young children, addressing common challenges like managing essential baby gear.

2 investors

TrayAway is a technology platform for hospitality service operations, starting with room service tray retrieval and extending to in-room ordering, pool and beach service, meeting room requests, and on-demand restaurant items. It serves hotels, hospitals, and senior living communities across 30+ countries.

2 investors

Tripfez offers Muslim-friendly travel packages including flights, halal meals, Muslim-friendly hotels, and insurance/visa assistance, with domestic, international, and Umrah options. It also provides corporate team-building trips and international cruise packages, focused on the Malaysian market.

2 investors

Tripgrid is a team travel booking platform that lets internal travel arrangers book flights for multiple travelers at once, with stored traveler profiles, batch checkout, real-time flight tracking, and 24/7 flight support. It serves teams and enterprises across sectors such as media and production, entertainment, music, sports, legal, and non-profit.

2 investors

Tripism is a platform for corporate travel teams to communicate travel program information and engage with business travelers, replacing outdated travel intranets. It manages content such as supplier partners, risk information, and internal communications, and lets travelers share and access reviews, tips, and comments to inform their booking choices.

2 investors

tripmakery operates an online booking platform and marketplace for organizing group trips across Europe, letting groups such as school classes, sports clubs, and companies search over 115,000 accommodations and receive real-time offers. It also offers tripmakery Pro, a booking platform aimed at travel professionals.

2 investors

TripScout runs social-media marketing campaigns for travel destinations and tourism partners, offering targeted social amplification, creator/UGC and AI-generated content, and measurement of engagement, bookings, and in-destination visitation. It serves destination marketing organizations, airlines, hotels, and events through its network of owned travel social brands and a global creator network.

2 investors

TROOP provides a meeting planning platform that helps remote and distributed teams research, compare, and select destinations for in-person meetings, and manage the entire logistics, attendees, and budgets for those gatherings.

2 investors