Travel & Hospitality Startups

YOTEL operates a chain of hotels in city-center and airport locations worldwide, offering compact rooms with features such as its SmartBed and Hypnos mattresses. It also provides layover stays at airport locations (YOTELAIR) and a corporate membership program for business travelers.

1 investor

Yummy Guide operates WOWiTH, an online travel agency offering global attraction tickets and activity bookings, and WOW, a platform connecting travelers with local experience hosts. The company provides both centralized booking and peer-to-peer experience sharing for travelers.

1 investor

Z-Trip (在途商旅) offers an end-to-end corporate travel management platform for enterprises, covering flights, hotels, train tickets, car service, visas, insurance, and MICE, with negotiated fares and a self-developed booking and expense-control system. It integrates with company OA and accounting systems and provides features such as credit-based monthly settlement, corporate advance payment, unified invoicing, and visual travel management reports, targeting businesses in China.

1 investor

Zanadu offers personalized travel planning through a team of travel advisors who provide one-on-one consulting to design trips tailored to a client's interests, tastes, and budget. It serves individual travelers in China seeking curated travel experiences.

1 investor

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.

1 investor

Zartico provides a visitor intelligence platform (ZDOS/Z5) that combines geolocation, spending, and other data sets to help destination marketing organizations, agencies, resorts, and tourism operators understand visitor behavior, attribute marketing performance, and measure economic impact. The tools offer visitor journey insights, predictive demand modeling, and media attribution for the travel and tourism industry.

1 investor

Zaubar offers a suite of generative AI and augmented reality services that let businesses add digital experiences to physical locations to drive revenue and brand engagement. It targets business location owners across sectors such as travel, smart cities, and education.

1 investor

Zephalto develops stratospheric balloon flights to carry passengers to near-space, working in partnership with the French space agency CNES for its balloon technology. The company positions itself in the space tourism and travel sector with a focus on low-pollution flights.

1 investor

Zipabout operates Journey Alerts, a service that sends public transport passengers real-time travel updates and step-by-step instructions via messaging apps rather than a downloadable app. It serves UK travellers, including disabled, senior, and less tech-confident users, with personalised routing and a "BUDDY" feature for tracking loved ones' journeys.

1 investor

Zoover is a Dutch travel booking platform offering holiday accommodations, from campsites to all-inclusive resorts, alongside user reviews to help travelers choose and book trips. It features a lowest-price guarantee and 24/7 customer support.

1 investor

Zoover Sports & Events sells travel packages and tickets to sporting events, such as arrangements including match tickets for the UEFA Nations League and Dutch national football team games. The company serves sports fans in the Netherlands.

1 investor

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.

1 investor

ZuBlu is an online booking platform and travel agency for scuba diving holidays, offering handpicked dive resorts and liveaboards with expert travel advisors and a guest concierge service. It serves divers planning trips to destinations including the Maldives, Indonesia, the Philippines, the Red Sea, and the Caribbean.

1 investor

Zuzuche is an online platform for booking overseas car rentals, offering support across the booking, pickup, usage, and return process for self-drive travel. It serves Chinese travelers renting vehicles in nearly 200 countries worldwide.

1 investor

Dear Monday is a Korean booking platform for workations and vacation stays, offering hotel rooms, packages, and premium day-office access across regions of South Korea. It also lists government-subsidized rural and regional workation programs for individuals and groups.

1 investor

Allwin Air operates a global travel commerce platform providing travel services and technology, including airline and travel agency API integrations, ancillary airline services, and web/mobile e-commerce interfaces.

1 investor

A luxury travel and experiential platform that offers customized five-star travel and experience plans to registered members.

1 investor

Trifa is a travel infrastructure platform that enables frictionless international travel and booking. The company creates tools and services to make travel more accessible and enriching for users worldwide, starting from East Asia.

1 investor

Heaven Retreat offers fractional ownership of resort villas across Japan, letting owners choose annual stay days, make priority bookings, and access villas nationwide while treating the property as an asset. It positions villas as vacation residences that can be shared with family and friends, with a hotel-style villa near the Passage Kinkai Island Golf Club.

1 investor

BORDER is a cloud-based business travel management (BTM) service that lets employees arrange flights and accommodation via chat while automatically applying company travel policies and aggregating trip data. It serves corporate travelers and administrative departments, offering itinerary proposals, policy compliance, safety-information delivery, and consolidated invoice billing.

1 investor

Holiday is a Japanese travel information site where users and local staff share outing plans and spots, covering destinations across Japan and abroad organized by area, situation, and author. The platform lets people browse and post itineraries, sightseeing guides, and video-based travel content.

1 investor

MetroEngine offers an AI-based revenue management platform for hotels and lodging operators that recommends optimal room prices daily, collecting big data on accommodation demand, competitor pricing, events, and reviews. It integrates with PMS and site controllers to automate price updates to OTAs and provides analytics dashboards for booking data.

1 investor

NEWT is a travel app that allows users to book hotels and package tours domestically and internationally. The company operates as a digital travel agency serving consumers seeking overseas and domestic travel options in Asia, Europe, Oceania, and Africa.

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Nagoya Kintetsu Taxi is a taxi and hire-car operator based in Nagoya, Japan, offering standard taxi rides, chartered hire cars, jumbo taxis, and sightseeing/tour taxi services including fixed-fare and shuttle plans. It serves local residents and tourists and has introduced electric vehicles for its fleet.

1 investor