Founders, investors, and support organizations active in TravelTech.
Travel-tech startup pitch competition at Phocuswright Europe in Barcelona. Application deadline: April 1, 2026. Live pitch date: June 16, 2026. Format typically selects seed and scale-up companies for investor and corporate jury exposure.
World's leading travel trade show with a major eTravel World segment. Price: about EUR 60 day ticket or EUR 100 permanent pass. Essential for TravelTech startups selling to airlines and hotels.
Organizer of Phocuswright Europe and associated startup pitch formats in travel technology.
Hospitality software company providing booking engines, channel management, and CRM tools for hotels and resorts.
Rebookify is a Riga-based travel automation platform that helps agencies recover margin from fluctuating hotel rates. The system tracks refundable bookings, detects equivalent lower-priced alternatives across suppliers, and alerts agents to rebook at better prices with minimal manual work. The company combines AI-driven matching with travel operations workflows for B2B agencies.
TravelPerk is a Barcelona-based corporate travel platform that replaces fragmented business-trip booking and policy management with a software-first system designed for both employees and finance teams. Its product combines broad travel inventory with a consumer-grade booking flow, while also giving companies the controls they need around approvals, budget visibility, invoicing, and reporting. That mix matters because corporate travel historically sat in an awkward space between employee convenience and finance oversight, with legacy travel management tools serving neither side particularly well. TravelPerk's software approach turns travel into a manageable operating workflow rather than a disconnected administrative burden. It has also expanded its moat through flexibility, policy automation, and integrations into the wider HR and finance stack, which makes it attractive to fast-growing international teams. In the European ecosystem, TravelPerk is one of the clearest examples of a category-defining B2B SaaS company emerging from Southern Europe and selling into the operational backbone of modern companies. It is especially relevant for startups and scale-ups managing distributed teams, customer travel, and cross-border expansion.