Travel & Hospitality Startups

WanderWallet provides a digital wallet for travelers and expatriates to make local payments across Latin America using QR-based payment methods. The platform enables users to pay in local currencies and transfer funds without currency exchange hassles or country-specific apps.

1 investor

WAQAA is an online platform for discovering and booking travel experiences, including cultural activities and outdoor adventures. It lets users search offerings by category, destination, group size, and dates.

1 investor

Kabin operates an online hotel booking and membership platform offering discounted stays at select properties. The service caters to travelers seeking accommodation options with loyalty membership benefits.

1 investor

Move is travel commerce infrastructure that turns AI-generated travel plans and traveler intent into bookable trips by aggregating supply (hotels, flights, experiences), packaging it with an AI engine, and executing multi-supplier bookings through one integration. It serves tour operators, travel agencies, AI trip builders, and fintech/loyalty brands, and offers a white-label distribution hub called holidayheroes.

1 investor

Travelers.ai offers customizable trip planning for Greece, letting travelers start from curated itineraries or build their own with hotels, flights, ferries, and days that re-price live and book in one click. Each trip is bundled into a single price, booking, and local point of contact.

1 investor

Via.ai provides an AI concierge platform that connects travel and lifestyle offerings with customer insights to deliver personalized, conversational digital concierge experiences. It targets financial institutions and travel retailers looking to deepen customer engagement.

1 investor

WeBee is a modular guest engagement and operations platform for hotels, offering products such as a white-label guest app, a hotel operations tool, a digital compendium, AI messaging agents, and ancillary upsell features. It serves hotel groups and independent properties across 26 countries, running its global operations out of London.

1 investor

WebHotelier | Primalres provides a hospitality e-business ecosystem for hotels and accommodation providers, including a booking engine, channel manager, cloud-based property management systems (hotelizer for hotels, loggia for short-term rentals), a payment management system, and a B2B marketplace connecting properties to travel agencies. It serves hotels and vacation rentals of any type or size across 39 countries.

1 investor

Whereto offers a corporate travel booking platform that uses algorithms to search many supplier channels at once. Travelers enter a meeting address or business name instead of a city or airport, and the system weighs commute times, price, and traveler preferences when suggesting flights and hotels. Companies can adjust the ranking rules to reflect their own travel policies.

1 investor

Whistler Blackcomb is a ski and mountain resort in Whistler, British Columbia, offering winter skiing and snowboarding across 200+ trails, glaciers, and alpine bowls, along with summer hiking, biking, and sightseeing activities. It provides lift tickets, season passes, equipment rentals, ski and snowboard school, dining, shopping, and lodging for vacationers.

1 investor

WiFi Map is a mobile app that aggregates crowdsourced information about public WiFi hotspots across 200+ countries and offers offline maps and eSIM data services for global connectivity. The platform rewards community contributors with a utility token for adding and verifying WiFi locations.

1 investor

Wildway offers designed lodging located next to national parks in Spain, with its first property in San Roque, Cantabria. The stays use locally sourced materials and low-impact operations, aiming to connect guests with the surrounding natural landscape.

1 investor

Winnotel builds a cloud-based tablet application designed to replace traditional in-room telephones and connect hotel guests, staff, and managers in the hospitality industry, with initial R&D focus on the Vietnamese market. Rebranded in 2024, the company also expanded into business and technology consulting, food & beverage, restaurant, accommodation, travel, and education services.

1 investor

Wishbird is a Mexican e-commerce platform for buying and gifting experiences such as spa treatments, hot air balloon flights, skydiving, romantic dinners, and getaways across cities and states in Mexico. It also sells physical gift boxes (Wishbox) and gift cards (Wishcard), with purchased experiences redeemable within 12 months.

1 investor

Duve offers a unified hotel guest experience platform that combines guest data with AI to enable online check-in, digital keys, centralized messaging across WhatsApp/email/SMS/OTAs, upselling, and analytics. It serves hotels and hospitality teams looking to personalize guest interactions and increase ancillary revenue across the guest journey.

1 investor

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.

1 investor

WorldStrides organizes educational travel programs for K-12 students, sports teams, performance ensembles, and higher education students, including study abroad, internships, and research trips. Its offerings connect classroom learning to real-world experiences, career exploration, and college life, with programs also delivered through university partnerships.

1 investor

Wynwood House provides furnished accommodations aimed at giving travelers a home-like stay across various destinations, along with local recommendations for exploring each city. It positions itself around living, traveling, and investing in short- and long-stay properties.

1 investor

XperiTech operates platforms for camping tourism in the Nordic region, including Campio.no and Stellplatz Europe.

1 investor

YachtLife is a yacht charter and sales marketplace offering thousands of yachts available for charter and purchase globally.

1 investor

Yanolja (operated by Nol Universe Co., Ltd.) runs an online travel platform that acts as an intermediary for booking accommodations and leisure products in South Korea. It functions as a communication sales broker connecting sellers with customers rather than selling the products directly.

1 investor

Yanolja Group is a travel technology company offering cloud-based and AI-powered hospitality solutions for travel enterprises, along with consumer services spanning travel, leisure, and culture. Its offerings include operational and revenue-management tools, data connectivity systems linking travel businesses and distribution channels, and AI-driven data analytics for the travel industry.

1 investor

Yellow Square is a hostel and social hospitality venue offering accommodation alongside a bar, city tours, activities like yoga and cooking, and co-working space. It caters to travellers, including groups, in Italy.

1 investor

Yescapa operates an online marketplace for renting campervans, motorhomes, and converted vans between private owners and travelers. It caters to outdoor enthusiasts and families looking for road trips.

1 investor