Travel & Hospitality Startups

Lilypad offers solar-powered boating experiences in South Haven, Michigan, catering to visitors and boating enthusiasts in the lakeside town.

1 investor

Limehome offers stylish, fully-furnished apartments across European cities and towns with a digital, keyless booking, check-in, and check-out experience. It serves travelers seeking short city trips or longer stays in the hospitality and accommodation sector.

1 investor

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.

1 investor

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.

1 investor

Local Adventures is an online travel platform for booking trips and tours worldwide, offering flexible reservations, open travel dates, and interest-free installment financing without a credit card. It targets Spanish-speaking travelers and provides experiences organized by city and destination.

1 investor

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.

1 investor

LocusLabs built indoor navigation and wayfinding software focused on the aviation industry, providing precision location and spatial data for airports and large venues. The company was acquired by Acuity Brands in December 2019 and rebranded as Atrius Wayfinder, part of a cloud application portfolio for buildings.

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Lodgis is a hospitality and real estate investment company whose principal investments include The Grand Ho Tram, an integrated resort destination near Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam featuring three five-star resort towers. Its holdings span branded resorts and entertainment properties.

1 investor

LOISIUM is a wine experience venue and hospitality destination located in European wine regions that offers wine tasting, education, and dining experiences for wine enthusiasts.

1 investor

LOKAL is a budget hospitality chain offering short-term accommodation in Pakistan, emphasizing cleanliness, security, and customer service with a 24/7 support model.

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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.

1 investor

Lola offers members insider access to leading travel brands, presenting better rates and options for booking travel. It operates as a travel booking service.

1 investor

London Luton Airport (LLA) is an airport serving over 130 destinations, offering passenger services including on-site car parking, car hire, special assistance, and journey planning. It operates in the United Kingdom.

1 investor

Lonely Planet is a travel media brand that publishes destination guides, articles, and travel inspiration, and operates a global network of travel creators (correspondents) covering destinations worldwide. It also offers curated trips and departures to travelers.

1 investor

Looping Group operates leisure and amusement parks, some with on-site accommodation, across multiple countries. It focuses on family entertainment, welcoming around 7.5 million visitors per year to its parks and lodging facilities.

1 investor

Lost Shore Surf Resort operates Europe's largest wave pool near Edinburgh, offering surfing, accommodation, dining, and wellness experiences such as a spa and sauna. It serves surfers, leisure visitors, and groups in Scotland.

1 investor

Love Home Swap has merged into HomeExchange, a home and flat exchange platform where members swap homes on a reciprocal or non-reciprocal basis using a GuestPoints system rather than money. The service serves travelers across the United Kingdom and more than 130 countries, offering access to over 230,000 properties for an annual membership fee.

1 investor

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.

1 investor

Luggagent offers a luggage delivery service that transports travelers' bags between destinations in Japan, including routes connecting Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Fujiyama, with same-day and overnight options.

1 investor

Luxtripper is a UK tour operator that designs tailor-made luxury holidays to over 80 worldwide destinations, including beach escapes, multi-destination trips, and five-star experiences. Itineraries are built around each traveller's interests, pace, and preferences.

1 investor

LuxUnlock curates stays in a portfolio of 30+ private villas and restored heritage homes across Southern India, Gujarat and Sri Lanka, offering design-minded luxury travellers self-contained holidays with personalised hospitality. The company focuses on low-impact homestay and villa experiences in off-the-beaten-track destinations, emphasizing sustainability, heritage preservation and support for local economies.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[{"full_name": "Rucha Gupta"}, {"full_name": "Ashish Gupta"}]

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Luxury Travel Hackers is a travel agency that plans custom luxury trips, tours, and cruises for travelers, offering curated deals and bespoke itineraries to destinations worldwide. Customers select a destination or trip type and the company builds a tailored travel experience, including options like resort stays and cruises.

1 investor

LUXY Ride operates a cloud-based booking platform and mobile app for scheduling black car and chauffeur transport, offering upfront pricing and nationwide drivers. It serves both individual travelers and corporate clients, integrating with travel management systems such as Concur, TripActions, and Amex for business travel needs.

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LYGG pools recurring business travel demand from companies in the North Sea Region and matches it with aircraft capacity to run direct regional flights linking offshore, marine, and energy hubs. Companies buy "Serial Tickets" based on their recurring travel needs, and the service focuses on underserved routes across the North Sea Region.

1 investor