Travel & Hospitality Startups

Voyagier is an AI-native travel agency that combines an AI orchestration layer (VIA) with human expert advisors to plan and book complex trips end-to-end, including flights, hotels, and experiences on live inventory. It serves luxury, group, and corporate business travelers, offering constraint-based travel policy enforcement and real-time spend visibility for growing teams.

2 investors

Vyootrip is a corporate travel management platform that lets companies book transport and accommodation, enforce customizable travel policies, and track and analyze travel expenses. It serves business travelers, travel managers, and finance teams through a single tool.

2 investors

Walkway is a revenue management platform for tours and activities operators, providing AI-generated pricing recommendations, market and competitor demand tracking, and automated dynamic pricing with configurable rules, floors, and ceilings. It connects to operators' booking systems and distribution channels, letting teams apply optimal pricing automatically or review each recommendation manually.

2 investors

WeBookYou (WBY) is an all-in-one corporate travel platform for booking and self-managing business flights, hotels, ground transport, and travel expenses worldwide. It offers role-based user accounts, approval workflows, real-time invoicing and reporting, and expense control via a WBY Wallet, aimed at companies of varying sizes.

2 investors

WeSki is a self-service platform for booking customized ski vacations that compares thousands of trip combinations and handles logistics including lift tickets, equipment rentals, and lessons. The platform serves ski enthusiasts looking for hassle-free ski trip planning and booking.

2 investors

Wevat provides a digital tax-free shopping service that lets travelers claim back VAT refunds on their purchases through an app-based process. It operates as a B2C tax refund company serving shoppers in the UK and France.

2 investors

Withlocals is an online marketplace that connects travelers with local hosts for private, personalized guided tours and food experiences in cities worldwide. The B Corp certified platform lets travelers book one-on-one tours, message hosts, and manage bookings, with a focus on sustainable tourism that pays locals directly.

2 investors

Worldia operates a white-label B2B2C travel booking platform that enables travel distributors to offer customizable travel experiences across over 80 destinations globally. The platform provides technology, product catalogues, and services for streamlined trip planning and reservation.

2 investors

WorldStrides organizes educational travel experiences for K-12 and university students, combining classroom learning with immersive international programs across 40+ countries. The company serves educators, schools, and students seeking study abroad, service learning, and cultural exploration opportunities.

2 investors

YGO automatically enriches hotel content for travel sellers, generating verified attributes, descriptions in multiple languages and brand voices, and curated image galleries for every hotel in a portfolio. It also offers guest-facing hotel Q&A and makes hotel data ready for AI agents, serving tour operators, OTAs and travel agencies.

2 investors

YoloBus is an intercity bus travel service in India offering online ticket booking for AC and non-AC luxury and sleeper buses across more than 400 routes. It focuses on comfortable, sanitized, and tech-enabled bus journeys for Indian travelers, with buses featuring WiFi, CCTV, and live GPS tracking.

2 investors

You. Smart. Thing. operates a map-based travel demand management platform that generates personalised, low-carbon multi-modal door-to-door travel plans for visitors. It serves destinations, venues, live events, transport operators, public sector organisations, and large employers, helping them manage people flow, improve accessibility, and reduce travel-related carbon emissions.

2 investors

Zanadu is an online luxury travel platform offering curated travel experiences including boutique hotel bookings, villa rentals, luxury cruises, and customized private tours. The company targets affluent travelers seeking high-end, stylized travel experiences across destinations worldwide.

2 investors

Zaplar is an autonomous operations platform for hotels that unifies rooms, events, spa, F&B, guest messaging, booking, and point-of-sale into one system. It automates routine work while letting staff review and approve suggested actions, aiming to reduce administration and capture more upsell for hoteliers.

2 investors

Zentila is a free venue sourcing platform that lets meeting and event planners create RFPs, search a database of hotels and venues worldwide, compare bids side by side, and book events. It serves corporate planning teams, third-party meeting planners, TMCs, and agencies with sourcing, spend tracking, and reporting tools.

2 investors

ZimCarry (짐캐리) offers luggage delivery and storage services for travelers, including express delivery via Korea's KTX-SRT high-speed rail and an airport luggage service. The company operates in South Korea, aiming to let travelers move around unfamiliar areas without carrying their bags.

2 investors

ZuBlu is an online travel agency for booking scuba diving holidays, offering handpicked dive resorts and liveaboards with expert travel advisors and a guest concierge service. It provides tailored dive itineraries across destinations including the Maldives, Indonesia, the Philippines, the Red Sea, and the Caribbean.

2 investors

Vorsee provides predictive travel intelligence and agentic AI infrastructure that lets travel and hospitality enterprises automate decisions such as revenue optimization, dynamic pricing, and performance marketing. It serves airlines, hotels, online travel agencies, car rental/fleet operators, and destinations with demand forecasting, risk detection, and autonomous agents that execute commercial actions.

2 investors

ADDress operates a multi-location residential service in Japan that allows members to live across different cities and rural areas through access to vacant properties and vacation homes on a flat monthly subscription. The company addresses rural depopulation and urban isolation by enabling a distributed lifestyle that connects people to regional communities.

2 investors

SmartRyde operates an online marketplace connecting taxi operators and travel agencies with international travellers to book airport-to-hotel ground transportation. Founded in 2017, the company aims to build a Global Distribution System (GDS) for ground transportation serving travellers worldwide.

2 investors

SQUEEZE operates smart hotels and apartment-hotel brands such as "Minn" and "Theatel" and develops "suitebook", a cloud PMS for managing lodging operations. The company also provides accommodation-operation support and tourism DX services, working with regional communities in Japan to make use of underused real estate.

2 investors

Stroly is a platform for publishing interactive digital illustrated maps that combine artistic map designs with GPS location technology, letting users self-guide through tourist areas, cities, parks, and cultural sites. It is used by local governments, tourism bodies, and organizations, primarily in Japan, to create web-based sightseeing and city-promotion maps.

2 investors

株式会社羅針盤（Compass Corp）は、旅の目的地の創出やホテル、体験（エクスペリエンス）、地域プロデュースなどの事業を通じて日本の観光業に取り組む企業。旅行者・地域・観光関連事業者向けに観光サービスを展開している。

2 investors

GroovyX runs a global medical tourism business, helping Korean hospitals attract international patients through a system that combines its platform, data, and operations. It provides hospital marketing, digital advertising, data-driven growth strategy, and B2B partnerships focused on the Korean aesthetic/cosmetic medicine market.

1 investor