Travel & Hospitality Startups

BabyQuip is a marketplace that rents and delivers clean, safe baby gear to traveling families, connecting parents with local independent providers. It serves families who need equipment such as cribs and strollers while on vacation or away from home.

6 investors

Bounce offers a luggage storage service that lets travelers book a spot online at lockers or local shops to drop off and store their bags. Users reserve a location, follow directions to the storage spot, and check in bags using a QR code from their booking confirmation.

6 investors

Buser is a Brazilian app-based platform for booking intercity bus travel, offering chartered bus trips and conventional bus tickets at reduced fares. It connects travelers with certified bus operators and provides features such as free cancellation, real-time boarding tracking, and 24-hour customer support.

6 investors

Expo is a platform that helps creators and enterprises build and publish applications. The company is positioned as a key participant in the React ecosystem and is developing solutions for AI-native universal app development.

6 investors

Hipcamp is a platform to discover and book camping experiences including tent sites, RV resorts, glamping, and private land stays across the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It connects campers with landowners to enable outdoor recreation while supporting land conservation.

6 investors

HomeToGo is a vacation rental marketplace that aggregates listings from multiple providers, offering travelers access to over 15 million properties worldwide with AI-powered search, verified reviews, and transparent pricing. The platform serves leisure travelers seeking short-term accommodation options across popular destinations globally.

6 investors

Oversee provides AI-driven automation and analytics tools for travel management companies (TMCs) to optimize corporate travel programs, including like-for-like rebooking, savings tracking, and spend insights. Its products aim to increase revenue, automate customer service, and surface program overspend for travel operations teams.

6 investors

Paytm operates a digital payments app in India that lets consumers pay at stores, pay bills, do mobile recharges, transfer money, and book movie and travel tickets. It also provides payment acceptance tools for merchants and businesses, along with financial services and products.

6 investors

Cvent Event Diagramming is a collaborative platform for event planning that helps planners and venues design event spaces, manage seating and layouts, and communicate in real-time. It serves event planners, venues, and event suppliers with tools for space visualization, 3D walkthroughs, and attendee management.

6 investors

Travelio appears to operate a property rental and accommodation booking service in Indonesia, based on a booking modification and refund policy notice. The available page content does not describe the company's offering in detail.

6 investors

Travelnest is a UK-founded platform that provides holiday rental management software for independent property owners, enabling multi-channel listing distribution, automated pricing optimization, and calendar synchronization across 30+ booking platforms from a single dashboard.

6 investors

TurnStay provides payment processing and global finance infrastructure for African travel businesses, helping them reduce booking fees and transaction costs through a platform offering multiple currency options and lower payment processing rates.

6 investors

6 investors

Otetsutabi operates a Japanese online marketplace that connects travelers with short-term work opportunities at farms, inns, hotels, restaurants, and other businesses in rural regions of Japan, letting participants earn income and cover travel while helping address local labor shortages. Listings span agricultural harvesting, hospitality, and cleaning jobs across prefectures such as Nagano, Hokkaido, and Wakayama.

6 investors

Mews is a cloud-based hospitality platform and property management system (PMS) for hotels, covering booking, pre-arrival, check-in, in-stay purchases, point of sale, and check-out. It offers self-service kiosks, digital keys, guest communication tools, and integrations with over 1,000 hospitality apps.

5 investors

Busbud is a platform that aggregates and enables booking of intercity bus tickets from thousands of bus operators across 80+ countries. The service helps travelers discover, compare, and book bus trips in their local language and currency.

5 investors

ByHours is an online platform for booking hotel rooms by the hour with flexible check-in times, allowing customers to pay only for the time they use and access hotel amenities such as spa and pool. It operates in the travel and hotel booking sector with pay-per-use microstays.

5 investors

Cloudbeds provides a property management system (PMS) and growth platform for hospitality businesses, including hotels and other accommodations. The platform offers guest experience tools, revenue management, distribution, and integrated partnerships to help hoteliers run and scale their operations.

5 investors

Evaneos is an online platform that connects travelers with local, destination-based travel agencies to co-create customized, responsible trips tailored to each traveler's budget and preferences. The French-language service serves French-speaking travelers planning tailor-made journeys and handles secure payments and financial protection through the platform.

5 investors

FlixBus operates an intercity bus network offering online and app-based ticket booking, real-time journey tracking, and e-tickets across roughly 8,000 destinations in 40+ countries. In North America it integrates with Greyhound to serve routes in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with on-board amenities such as WiFi and power outlets.

5 investors

Headout operates a global marketplace that connects travelers with local experiences, activities, and attractions across multiple countries. The platform serves consumers seeking tours, tickets, and real-life experiences with operations in over 150 countries and support for 14 languages.

5 investors

Hostfully develops property management software for vacation rental managers. Founded in 2015, the company serves the short-term and vacation rental industry.

5 investors

matsuri technologies is a Japanese company building software-driven businesses in the travel and accommodation sector, focused on developing the tourism industry and labor-saving (automation) solutions to address staffing shortages. It aims to create new industries around freedom of travel and living.

5 investors

Mint House offers apartment-style accommodations across multiple property locations for travelers and corporate, group, and events guests; it has been acquired by and joined Kasa's hospitality portfolio.

5 investors