List of the 800 largest Travel Venture Capital Investors [2023]

List of 5 large travel venture capital investors

One of the largest service industries globally is the travel sector. The industry focuses on the movement and transportation of people to different locations, which also includes other industries like the hotel industry along the way. Since the digitalized world requires modern solutions, traveltech is also experiencing major growth. This article highlights five significant venture capital firms in the travel industry from our keyword-based list.

1. Travel Capitalist (USA)

Travel Capitalist has invested in 7 different countries and has over 1200 industry contacts. They are exclusively focused on the travel, tourism, and hospitality sector and usually invest in large seed onwards projects. A portfolio company that focuses on traveltech is jetsmart, who have developed a more sustainable alternative to fuel for aircrafts, reducing CO2 emissions by 80 %.

2. Antler (Singapore)

Antler is an early-stage venture capital firm with a strong network of industry experts. The company has cultivated a portfolio of ineresting startups across various sectors, including travel. One of them is TravelPerk, a corporate travel management platform that simplifies business travel. TravelPerk offers easy booking, expense management, and traveler support. Additionally, another portfolio company is Klook who provide an online platform that offers a selection of activities, tours, and attractions for travelers around the world.

3. True Ventures (USA)

Headquartered in California, True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. Portfolio company that focus on travel technology are Airbnb, the world’s leading online marketplace for short-term accommodation rentals and Hipcamp, a platform that connects travelers with unique outdoor stays and camping experiences.

4. Gobi Partners (Malaysia)

With 1.5 USD billion in assets under management Gobi Partners is the best connected Pan-Asian venture capital firm. The company was founded in 2002 with their headquarters in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, however, they have grown across 15 different locations. Gobi Partners supports many different companies in various sectors, one company in the travel sector is SastaTicket, a one-stop shop that offers many different travel related services.

5. MairDumont Ventures (Germany)

MairDumont Ventures is a VC firm from Germany that invests in the travel sector. Since 2015 they have invested in 12 companies and in the past 12 months they have initiated 11 transactions. The company is interested in early-stage B2C as well as B2B. Two companies they have backed, for example, are Beach Inspector, a platform that allows people to search and rate beaches, and Viselio, a software service that simplifies visa applications.

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Included information in our travel investor list

Our keyword analysis-based list includes the following general columns:

• Name of the VC fund
• Country of origin
• URL
• E-mail (general)
• Investment focus (if data available)
• Corporate VC (yes/no)

The following columns are based on the keyword crawler, which is a Python-based, in-house developed tool that crawls every page for at least 45 seconds to find the respective keywords.

• total_frequency (e.g.: 1435) – total counted occurrences of keywords on the VC website
• average_keyword_rate (e.g. 0.11) – average rate of keyword occurrences per subpage in relation with total number of words
• most_common_keyword (e.g. „travel“) – keyword that was counted the most often on respective VC website
• most_common_keyword_frequency (e.g. 12448) – number of times the most common keyword was counted
• sub_url_highest_rate (e.g. https://tripventures.com/#portfolio) – sub url with the highest number of found keywords
• highest_rate (e.g. 0.15) – highest keyword rate per subpage
• frequency_per_keyword: {‘travel’: 191, ‘tourism’: 7, ‘vacation’: 1, ‘traveltech’: 0} – dictionary of number of keyword occurrences per keyword

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Results of our keyword analysis

In the next paragraph, we are focusing on insights derived from our keyword research, which was based on our list of the 2,500 largest VC investors worldwide.

Percentage of VC funds that invest in travel start-ups

Our keyword crawler analyzed more than 2,500 venture capital funds regarding travel investment keywords. We found out that 33.1 % of the global VC funds mention travel.

Focus on travel

This bar chart shows the most important keywords from our keyword search, however most companies use the keyword travel to describe their vc company focus. Additionally, the terms tourism, vacation, and traveltech are used.