Travel & Hospitality Startups

Veezu is a UK taxi and private hire booking service that connects passengers with local self-employed driver-partners through an app, phone bookings, and pre-booked rides including airport transfers. It also offers a business travel account for managing employee and customer transportation.

1 investor

Ventrata provides a booking and ticketing platform for tour operators and attractions, handling reservations and operations for travel businesses. It serves tours-and-attractions companies globally, operating in the travel technology sector.

1 investor

VenueNow is an online marketplace for finding, comparing, and booking event venues and suppliers, featuring an AI venue finder that generates curated shortlists based on user descriptions. It serves event organisers—including corporate, wedding, and social clients—across Australia and New Zealand.

1 investor

Via Bus Group is a travel company operating multiple Dutch coach travel brands offering bus tours, excursion tours, city trips, cruises, and group travel within and outside Europe. Its brands serve both individual travelers and organized groups, arranging transport, accommodation, and excursion programs.

1 investor

Viamet provides informational and educational support for people planning medical travel, including help organizing questions about provider verification, care coordination, care navigation, documents, and wellness planning. It positions itself as a starting point for informational conversations rather than a guarantor of medical outcomes.

1 investor

VICO operates an online platform for finding and booking mid- to long-term housing and rooms, connecting tenants with hosts/landlords. The service handles listings, bookings, and issue reporting for stays, with reviews indicating a focus on the Latin American market (e.g. Medellín, Colombia).

1 investor

SJourney operates Vietnam's first luxury train vacations, an 8-day rail journey traversing the country from north to south with elegant cabins, onboard dining, and cultural performances. It targets luxury leisure travelers seeking a guided tour experience through Vietnam's landscapes and culture.

1 investor

Village Hotels operates a chain of 34 hotels across the UK offering accommodation alongside food and drink venues, gyms and pools, shared workspaces, and meeting and event facilities. It serves both business and leisure guests, with a members club providing perks such as free wifi, parking, and leisure access.

1 investor

Vipio is an online platform that lists unique accommodations and holiday stays, including dog-friendly options, for travelers to discover and book. It also runs a newsletter offering travel credit giveaways.

1 investor

viravira.co is an online marketplace for yacht charters and boat rentals, listing 12,000+ boats across 60+ destinations in regions such as the Mediterranean and Caribbean. It connects travelers with verified boat owners through direct chat, secure online booking, and digital charter agreements.

1 investor

Virdee offers virtual reception software for hotels, resorts, and casinos that automates guest check-in through self-service kiosks, mobile apps, and web, including ID verification, payment processing, and digital room keys. The platform integrates with property management systems and serves the hospitality industry.

1 investor

Virgin Galactic operates suborbital spaceflights, offering astronaut journeys for private passengers as well as access for scientists and researchers to conduct experiments in suborbital space. It positions itself as a provider of human spaceflight and a suborbital space lab for research.

1 investor

Hutchinson is a tourism destination website for the city of Hutchinson, Kansas, promoting local attractions such as the Cosmosphere space museum, a working salt mine tour, water parks, a zoo, and outdoor recreation. It serves visitors and families planning trips to the area, functioning as a travel and tourism guide.

1 investor

Visit Pasadena, Texas is a tourism promotion site highlighting attractions, outdoor activities, dining, and events in Pasadena, Texas. It targets travelers and visitors seeking things to do near the Houston area, including nature, food, and family activities.

1 investor

Visiting Media offers a sales platform for hotel and property sales teams that uses immersive visual content to present properties remotely, helping sales managers respond to RFPs and win business. It includes TrueTour, a property content collection, and custom tours built for specific clients.

1 investor

Vista operates a vertically-integrated technology platform providing end-to-end business aviation services, focused on high-net-worth clients. The company serves an international market with a presence in major cities worldwide.

1 investor

A single-author political website presenting a proposed 1,900-page constitution and a video-based, in-person voting system meant to replace the current US government structure with much larger elected legislatures. The site offers the constitution as a free download along with commentary on election reform and anti-corruption ideas.

1 investor

WAH Holidays runs an online travel search and booking site for Indian consumers. Travelers can look up and reserve flights, hotels and packaged trips, including honeymoon travel, family vacations, weekend getaways and lesser-known destinations.

1 investor

Careers and employer-branding site for the travel group Invia x Travelplanet.pl x Wakacje.pl, one of the largest tour-package sales groups in Central and Eastern Europe operating as an online travel agency (OTA). The page presents the organization, its departments, employee benefits, and its recruitment process for roles in sales, customer service, marketing, finance, analytics, HR, e-commerce, and development.

1 investor

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.

1 investor

Wander is a travel app that converts social media content, such as Instagram posts, reels, and videos, into personalized travel maps and itineraries by extracting mentioned places. It also offers curated destination maps and offline access for travelers planning trips.

1 investor

Wander operates a data hub for cultural and events content, allowing media platforms and ticketing organizations to distribute event offerings across multiple sales channels and monetize their audiences through personalized, location-based recommendations.

1 investor

Wanderable operated an online honeymoon registry service for couples. The service was discontinued as of Summer 2022.

1 investor

Wanderlog is a travel planning app that allows users to create detailed itineraries, explore shared guides from other travelers, and manage bookings—integrating attractions on maps, reservations, budgeting, and route optimization in a single platform.

1 investor