- Vuelo's €64M seed round is structured as €6.9M in equity led by Backed VC and Play Ventures alongside €57M in debt from Viola Credit - the debt component likely funds travel inventory or BNPL-style trip financing directly on the platform.
16 Travel & Hospitality companies raised a combined $164.9M across 3 pre-seed, 10 seed, 3 series a. Tracked daily from announcement. Founder contacts and growth signals included.
- Vuelo's €64M seed round is structured as €6.9M in equity led by Backed VC and Play Ventures alongside €57M in debt from Viola Credit - the debt component likely funds travel inventory or BNPL-style trip financing directly on the platform.
- Juan Pablo Lafosse leads TravelX, which built an AI-native platform for airline post-booking revenue management.
- Founded the international education nonprofit Pencils of Promise after leaving Bain & Company and built more than 400 schools across four countries.
The Travel & Hospitality sector saw 16 funding rounds tracked on FundedStartupsDaily this year, totalling $164.9M. The median round sits at $4M, with 81% of activity at pre-seed and seed stage and the remaining 19% at Series A and later. Pre-Seed rounds dominate, accounting for 19% of all Travel & Hospitality activity in 2026.
Geographically, Travel & Hospitality funding is concentrated in United States, which accounts for 6 of the 16 raises (38%). The remainder is distributed across other regions tracked by FundedStartupsDaily.
The largest Travel & Hospitality round in 2026 is Vuelo's €64M seed, led by Jasper Dykes. Travel & Hospitality activity accelerated through Aug, when raises jumped to 5 announcements.
Every entry on this page is sourced from public funding announcements, then enriched with founder LinkedIn handles, company websites, and growth signals. If you're a founder, operator, salesperson, or recruiter tracking Travel & Hospitality, this page updates every weekday with new rounds.
| # | Company | Stage | Raised | Founder / CEO | Region | Signals | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tryp.com tryp.com | Seed | €1.9M | André Rangel de Sousa Co-founder & CEO | Denmark | Seed AI-Native B2C | |
| 2 | Dextr AI dextr.ai | Seed | $6.7M | Sajid Shariff Founder & CEO | United States | Seed B2B Hiring | |
| 3 | AI Hospitality Group aihg.com | Seed | $7.5M | Sloan Dean CEO | United States | Seed B2B AI-Native | |
| 4 | Piney piney.eu | Seed | $1.9M | Nicolas Chrysostomou Founder & CEO | Cyprus | Seed New Market B2B | |
| 5 | Laters.com laters.com | Seed | $1.5M | Alex Yardley Founder & CEO | Singapore | Seed FinTech B2C | |
| 6 | TravelX travelx.com | Series A | $45M | Juan Pablo Lafosse CEO | United States | Series A AI-Native B2B | |
| 7 | Camo Hospitality camoeats.com | Seed | $4M | Kevin Rohani Founder & CEO | United States | Seed B2B Marketplace | |
| 8 | Visaible.ai visaible.ai | Seed | $1.0M | Sam Rich Founder and CEO | Australia | Seed B2B Vertical SaaS | |
| 9 | Entravel Group entravelgroup.com | Seed | $7.5M | Mathias Lundoe Nielsen Founder & CEO | Denmark | Seed B2B New Market | |
| 10 | Zerolook zerolook.ai | Pre-Seed | €1.6M | Simone Lini CEO & Co-Founder | Switzerland | Pre-Seed AI-Native Second-Time Founder | |
| 11 | Overwatch AI overwatch.aero | Pre-Seed | $1.5M | Leo Kotil CEO & Co-founder | United States | Pre-Seed AI-Native Vertical SaaS | |
| 12 | Clarasight clarasight.com | Series A | $11.5M | Adam Braun CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A AI-Native B2B | |
| 13 | Nox Mobility noxmobility.com | Pre-Seed | $2.2M | Thibault Constant Co-founder | Germany | Pre-Seed Hardware B2C | |
| 14 | Otel AI otelai.com | Seed | $3.1M | Nikhil Patil Co-founder | Ireland | Seed Travel & Hospitality AI-Native | |
| 15 | Vuelo vueloinvestments.com | Seed | €64M | Jasper Dykes Founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Seed AI-Native Debt | |
| 16 | LetzRyd letzryd.com | Series A | $4M | Tarun Jain Founder & CEO | India | Series A Marketplace B2C |