Travel & Hospitality Startups

Laasie is an AI-powered loyalty platform for hotels that lets each guest choose how they are rewarded — through instant rewards, points, or cash back — across leisure, business, and group travelers. It integrates with a property's existing PMS, CRM, and booking engine to drive direct bookings and capture guest data, serving independent hotels, management companies, resorts, and hotel chains.

2 investors

Lasoh is a marketing technology platform for vacation rental and property management operators that combines guest capture, email/SMS marketing, and digital house manuals to drive direct bookings and reduce OTA dependency.

2 investors

Layla.ai is an AI-powered travel agent that builds personalized, day-by-day itineraries via a conversational chat, comparing flights, hotels, car rentals and activities in real time and letting users book through partners like Booking.com and Skyscanner. It serves leisure and business travelers including families, couples, solo travelers, groups, and road trippers, with features such as price prediction, interactive maps, and creator video inspiration.</parameter> <parameter name="sector_codes">["travel", "ai_ml", "consumer"]

2 investors

Lark Hotels is a hotel management company that partners with independent, design-driven boutique hotels across America, providing operational expertise, strategic guidance, and support from pre-opening through ongoing management. The company manages a portfolio of lifestyle-driven properties that prioritize maintaining individual character while achieving financial viability and operational excellence.

2 investors

Lighthouse is a commercial platform for the travel and hospitality industry, offering market insights, business intelligence, and pricing tools to help properties manage revenue. It serves revenue professionals and properties of all sizes with real-time data dashboards.

2 investors

Livedin offers a property management application for short-term rental and real estate hosts that lists properties across major booking platforms, provides a unified calendar to organize and automate bookings, and includes tools for guest screening, check-in/check-out, task management, and vendor coordination. It targets property owners and real estate professionals managing rentals across multiple channels.

2 investors

Local is a UAE-based payments company offering QR code-based transactions. It targets merchants that serve customers in person and aims to complete a payment in roughly ten seconds.

2 investors

Local Adventures is a platform for booking outdoor adventure experiences led by passionate local guides across the Americas and Europe. The company connects travelers with memorable outdoor experiences curated by local experts.

2 investors

Localeur offers travel guides and local recommendations—such as restaurants and road trips—sourced from a community of locals across 200 destinations. The service is aimed at travelers seeking local insight on where to go and how to experience a place.

2 investors

Lokafy is a travel platform that connects travelers with local people and experiences, emphasizing authentic cultural encounters and human connection over traditional tourism. The company focuses on enabling users to discover destinations through the perspectives of the people who live there.

2 investors

Lokki is an online marketplace that lets users search and book bike rentals in advance from over 2,000 professional and independent rental shops across France and abroad. It covers standard and electric bikes for both vacation and everyday use, with rental prices guaranteed to match in-store rates.

2 investors

Loku operates a local search and discovery website covering cities in the United States. Users browse listings and recommendations for restaurants, events, businesses, deals and local news, with input from area-specific contributors.

2 investors

LOST iN produces city travel guides and videos, offering a membership with discounted hotel rates, digital and print guides, and an AI trip-planning concierge. It serves travelers looking for curated destination content and travel perks.

2 investors

Luca is an AI-supported guest-experience platform for the hospitality industry, offering a digital concierge that lets guests reserve tables, check in and out of hotels, place orders, message the lobby, and pay without downloading an app. It serves restaurants, cafés, and hotels connecting them with their guests.

2 investors

Mallard Bay provides booking and business management software for hunting, fishing, and other guided outdoor outfitters and charters, covering trip scheduling, guest management, payment processing, calendars, quotes, and a booking widget. It also offers managed marketing and sales services and a capital program (Money Hub) tailored to outfitters, primarily serving operators across North America.

2 investors

Manawa is an online marketplace for booking outdoor adventure activities such as paragliding, connecting travelers with local activity operators. It offers expert advice and customer support for discovering and reserving experiences.

2 investors

Marietton Développement is a French travel-industry group that grew from a single Lyon travel agency founded in 1968 into a multi-brand group operating nearly 20 brands across five tourism business lines. It serves travel clients nationally in France.

2 investors

StayX develops labor-efficient facility management software and a booking platform for short-term rentals and lodging, and operates its own accommodation brands. It runs services including the short-term rental platform "Sumyca," the temporary-return-to-Japan stay service "一時帰国.com," and the cohabitation trial service "おためし同棲," plus urban ("stayme") and regional ("S-villa") lodging brands.

2 investors

MeetingPackage provides a central reservation system built for hotels to manage groups, meetings, and events bookings. The platform uses AI to automate inventory management, pricing, proposals, and distribution across multiple properties, serving hotels globally.

2 investors

Meili is a direct ancillary distribution platform that enables airlines and travel brands to offer car rental, hotel and mobility products to travelers. The platform removes intermediaries and facilitates direct partnerships between travel companies and ancillary service providers.

2 investors

Migacore built natural language processing tools that aggregated news, social media, and event data into demand signals for airlines and other travel operators. Revenue management and marketing teams used its alerts to adjust pricing and target campaigns. The company was acquired by Cirium in 2021.

2 investors

Miraval Resorts & Spas operates a collection of luxury wellness resorts focused on mindfulness and holistic well-being experiences. The company offers intentional journeys and programs designed to help guests explore the connection between body, mind, and spirit.

2 investors

Musement is an online booking platform for travel experiences and activities — including museum visits, city tours, food and wine tastings, and adventure activities — across more than 100 countries. It became part of TUI Group's Tours & Activities division in September 2018.

2 investors

My 1Health is a medical travel platform that connects patients with accredited hospitals and specialists abroad, managing the full treatment journey from initial inquiry and hospital selection to travel coordination and follow-up care. Originating in Africa and now global, it serves patients, referring partners, insurers/TPAs, and hospitals across 190+ countries.

2 investors