Bilbao, Spain · Accelerator Founded 2017. Seed-stage investor focused on marketplaces, e-commerce, and travel tech. All Iron Ventures is an accelerator programme based in Bilbao, Spain. The programme supports startups in Marketplaces, E-commerce, Travel Tech.
Barcelona, Spain · Startup Amenitiz is a vertically integrated SaaS platform — a 'Shopify for hotels' — giving independent hotels and B&Bs a property-management system, website/booking engine, channel manager across 120+ OTAs, embedded payments and dynamic pricing. It serves 15,000+ properties processing €3bn+ in bookings annually.
Barcelona, Spain · Person Co-founder and CEO of TravelPerk, the Barcelona-based business-travel management unicorn. He previously founded the hotel-software startup Hotel Ninjas (acquired by Booking.com) before launching TravelPerk in 2015.
Barcelona, Spain · Startup Caravelo is a travel-tech SaaS company that lets airlines create and manage flight-subscription programmes ('all you can fly') to generate recurring revenue, smooth seasonal demand and improve loyalty, with airline clients including Volaris, Wizz Air and Alaska Airlines.
Belgrade, Serbia · Startup FishingBooker is a Belgrade-based online marketplace connecting recreational anglers with fishing guides and charter captains worldwide. The platform allows users to browse, compare, and book fishing trips across thousands of destinations, handling payments, reviews, and communication between guests and guides. With operations spanning the US, Caribbean, Europe, and beyond, FishingBooker has become the world's largest fishing trip booking platform. The company demonstrates how Serbian engineering talent can build globally dominant vertical marketplaces in niche travel segments that larger OTAs have underserved.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom · Person Co-founder and former CEO of Skyscanner, the Edinburgh travel-search company that became one of Scotland's defining tech successes before its acquisition by Ctrip for around £1.4bn.
Berlin, Germany · Person Johannes Reck is Co-founder & CEO of the travel-experiences marketplace GetYourGuide. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Johannes leads the travel-experiences marketplace GetYourGuide.
Berlin, Germany · Person Julian Weselek is Co-founder & CEO of the online travel company Tourlane. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Julian leads the online travel company Tourlane.
Brno, Czech Republic · Startup Kiwi.com is a Brno-founded online travel agency that uses proprietary Virtual Interlining technology to combine flights from airlines that do not formally codeshare, creating unique multi-carrier itineraries unavailable on traditional booking platforms. The platform searches across 750+ carriers including low-cost airlines, trains, and buses to find the cheapest routes. Founded in 2012 by Oliver Dlouhy, the company grew rapidly and became one of the largest travel booking platforms in Europe, processing tens of millions of bookings annually. Kiwi.com also offers a Guarantee product that protects travelers on self-transfer connections.
Athens, Greece · Venture Capital Velocity.Partners was founded in 2017 in Athens, growing out of the Found.ation startup ecosystem, and is supported by the EquiFund programme and the EU Operational Programme "Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship & Innovation". The fund is sector-agnostic but has particular depth in Maritime-tech, MedTech, FinTech, and Travel-tech — verticals where Greek founders hold a structural edge. It invests at pre-seed and seed stage with initial tickets typically up to €500K, then follows on into later rounds. The team combines operators, founders, and investors with hands-on industry experience.
Athens, Greece · Venture Capital VentureFriends was founded in 2016 by serial entrepreneurs Apostolos Apostolakis and George Dimopoulos in Athens to back early-stage scalable startups across Europe and MENA. The firm has raised three funds — VF1 (€20M, 2016), VF2 (€50M, 2018), and VF3 (€100M, 2021) — totalling €170M in AUM. It focuses on pre-seed through Series A investments of €330K–€2.8M in FinTech, PropTech, Marketplaces, TravelTech, and SaaS. With 83 portfolio companies, the firm has produced 2 unicorns, 1 IPO, and 10 acquisitions, with Blueground among its flagship investments.