Travel & Hospitality Startups

Dip Your Trip is a travel booking service that connects travelers with local experts to plan custom adventures such as trekking in Patagonia, skiing the Andes, and visiting Machu Picchu. It focuses on destinations across South America, including Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Brazil.

1 investor

DirectBooker is an AI-native aggregation service that collects hotels' direct rates, availability and booking links and delivers them via a Model Context Protocol server to AI platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. It serves hotel chains and connectivity providers, helping them capture direct bookings, reduce OTA commissions, and appear in AI-based travel search.

1 investor

Tourism website for McMinn County in Tennessee's Overhill Region, promoting local attractions such as ice cream shops, the Hiwassee River, parks, farmers markets, and event venues. It targets visitors and families planning vacations, getaways, and weddings in the area.

1 investor

A tourism promotion site for Sumter County, Florida, highlighting outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, kayaking, and fishing, along with wineries and dining. It targets visitors and vacationers seeking a rural getaway near Orlando and Tampa.

1 investor

Nuno provides AI-driven discovery and marketing services for travel and hospitality brands, managing their presence across search, social, and AI platforms to ensure they reach and appeal to target travelers. The company combines cultural trend analysis, content creation, audience modeling, and AI optimization to help distinctive travel and hotel brands be chosen by their ideal customers.

1 investor

G'day Group is Australia's largest regional accommodation provider, operating over 330 properties nationwide including holiday and caravan parks, resorts, and workforce accommodation, along with tourism booking and camping platforms. Founded in 2004, it serves holidaymakers, FIFO and corporate travellers, and tourism operators across Australia.

1 investor

Distant Journeys designs escorted group touring holidays to destinations across Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Americas, combining group travel with flexibility for individual travellers. The UK-based tour operator offers classic, cruise and private tours and holds ATOL/ABTOT financial protection.

1 investor

Diverse School Travel plans curriculum-linked educational trips for UK schools, covering day trips and tours in the UK, Europe, and worldwide. It handles itinerary planning, logistics, and administrative work for teachers acting as party leaders, offering both ready-made and bespoke tours for all group sizes and budgets.

1 investor

Docklyne operates an online network for booking professional boat rentals, connecting customers with licensed rental operations across the country. Users can search rental operations by area and body of water and book through the platform or directly with the operator.

1 investor

DogVacay is an online marketplace that connects pet owners with local pet sitters who provide cage-free dog boarding and daytime care in the sitter's or owner's home. Users browse and book sitters online, with bookings covered by pet insurance, 24/7 support, and daily photo updates.

1 investor

Dohop provides connectivity technology that lets airlines link flights and offer virtual interline journeys through a single integration, including baggage transfers and passenger disruption protection. It serves airlines and travel providers looking to expand their networks and improve the passenger travel experience.

1 investor

Dokempu is a Czech online guide that helps travelers find campsites and glamping spots for outdoor trips, offering category filters, ratings, and an interactive map of camps across the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It also runs a "Camp of the Year" voting feature and provides services for camp operators.

1 investor

Godonde offered a service to help users save, explore, and book travel. The page now displays a farewell message, indicating the company has shut down its operations.

1 investor

Drivezy operates a vehicle-sharing platform in India that allows customers to rent cars and motorcycles from private owners. The service connects vehicle owners with renters seeking short-term access to transportation.

1 investor

Direct Travel is a corporate travel management company serving business clients. It provides managed travel services for organizations of small, mid-market, and enterprise size.

1 investor

Dtravel is a platform that lets short-term rental hosts and property managers sync their Airbnb or PMS listings, build direct booking websites, and distribute across channels like Google Vacation Rentals to grow commission-free direct bookings. It also offers travelers direct booking with hosts and uses TRVL, a reward token, for payments, discounts, and loyalty rewards.

1 investor

Dyme is a members-only travel booking platform offering private member rates on over 2 million hotels and flights, plus a rewards program (Dyme Miles) redeemable on any airline or hotel. It also offers a business travel product with spend policies, approvals, and expense reconciliation, and directs its profits to funding solar energy for schools and hospitals.

1 investor

The easy.com portal is owned by easyGroup, the UK company behind the "easy" family of brands (including easyJet), and offers travel comparison and booking for stays, flights, car hire, attractions, and airport taxis. It serves as a consumer travel portal aggregating low-cost travel deals worldwide.

1 investor

EasyBook provides an online travel booking platform for Southeast Asia, publishing country-by-country travel and entry information and offering ticketing services across markets such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. The page shown consists mainly of COVID-19 travel and entry restriction notices for various countries in the region.

1 investor

easyCar is a global car rental broker that allows customers to compare and book vehicles from over 1,700 rental companies across 45,000+ locations worldwide. The platform serves leisure and business travelers seeking a transparent booking experience with included insurance, unlimited mileage, and 24/7 customer support.

1 investor

EasyGoBand offers a platform for hotels that automates reservations and activity management while enabling cross-selling and personalized promotions to increase guest spending. It also provides guests with a self-service interface to access information, make reservations, and communicate with the hotel, and gives staff real-time operational insights.

1 investor

Eatwith is a marketplace connecting travelers with local hosts who offer food tours, dinners, and cooking classes around the world. It focuses on authentic, locally-hosted culinary experiences.

1 investor

eco.mio builds software that encourages more sustainable choices in corporate business travel, integrating CO2 emission calculations into online booking tools to influence traveler behavior. It serves companies and their business travelers with tools focused on reducing travel-related emissions.

1 investor

Eddy Travels is an AI-powered chatbot that helps users find flight and accommodation offers across multiple travel platforms using natural language processing. The assistant serves leisure travelers seeking to reduce search time and comparison effort across travel booking sites.

1 investor