Velocity Ventures
VC Fund
Velocity Ventures is a VC fund focused on Hospitality and Travel. At Velocity Ventures, we invest in visionary entrepreneurs who are reshaping the Travel & Hospitality sector in Southeast Asia. We focus on Seed to Series A stage growth companies across the Transportation, Travel Services, Accommodation, Food & Beverage and Retail & Experiences sub-sectors. Our team consists of a unique mix of Travel& Hospitality sector specialists & successful entrepreneurs with 13 decades of combined operating and investing experience, coupled with a deep, value-added network in Asia.If you are the founder of a growing start-up with great potential in the Travel & Hospitality sector in SE Asia, please get in touch at reachus@velocityventures.vc.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
- Fund size:
- $20M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Velocity Ventures invests in
Stages Velocity Ventures invests in
Countries Velocity Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$8M
- Series A
- $8M–$14M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Hospitality 4 (29%)
- Travel 3 (21%)
- E-Commerce 3 (21%)
- Food and Beverage 3 (21%)
- Information Technology 3 (21%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (50%)
- Series A 4 (29%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (7%)
Country
- Israel 3 (21%)
- Hong Kong 2 (14%)
- Singapore 2 (14%)
- Spain 1 (7%)
- Malaysia 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jean-Pierre Sedaghat
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
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Checker
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$8M / Seed / May 19, 2026 | ||
ZUZU Hospitality
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ZUZU Hospitality is chain for independent hotels, delivering revenue growth through distribution and revenue management.As such, we are the indisputable primary partner to hoteliers in driving revenue. Acting as their hotel operating system, we power their back office revenue generation business operations, allowing them to focus on being greathoteliers. | $5.9M / Series B / Aug 27, 2025 | |
Journee
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Journee is an online travel company. They offer artificial intelligence that matches a destination based on the user's preferences and plans a trip tailored for the user. | Seed / Sep 09, 2024 | |
Joyned
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Joyned is a SaaS platform empowering retailers to provide social shopping experiences directly to their consumers rather than through third-party social platforms. It was created to disrupt the online shopping world and give retailers unparalleled control over their users’ social experiences. This kind of collaborative shopping enables corporateretailers to both optimize their websites’ conversion rates and provide better user experiences.Joyned’s plug-in not only optimizes websites’ conversion rates, but also attracts high quality traffic and increases AOV by giving users the option to invite their peers to edit and comment on their wish lists without having to abandon their online shopping carts. Joyned can be deployed to any platform or website with ease. For retailers, Joyned’s technology is easy to use and does not alter the code and site UX. Joyned is GDPR compliant and doesn’t hold any personally identifiable information. | $8M / Series A / Dec 14, 2023 | |
BYHOURS
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BYHOURS is the first international platform that allows you to book stays of 3, 6 and 24 hours in more than 4000 hotels of the best chains around the world. It is available in more than 25 countries. Bringing "pay per use" to hotels: users choose the time they want to check in and check out of their room 24 hours a day and pay only forthe time they need.BYHOURS has introduced a new and disruptive business model in travel industry, about microstays and pay-per-use, based in flexibility, which also allow hotels to increase their income, as well as monetize and optimize their resources. Founded in March of 2012 in Barcelona, the company has experienced rapid growth, working with more than 4500 hotels in Europe, Latin America and some key cities in the Middle East. After partnering with major international top hotel chains, has also evolved to a travel-tech company offering B2B and B2B2C services via SAAS, joining forces with international companies such as SABRE (the leading travel agencies software), RAPPI (the multi-vertical super-app leader in Latin America) or AXA Insurances. | Nov 20, 2023 | |
Aigens
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Aigens is a tech start-up that has helped steer the digital revolution of the F&B and Hospitality industry in Asia Pacific. The company led the way with mobile ordering and popularized scan-to-order long before Covid-19 triggered the mainstream adoption of their use.Founded in 2012 by Hans Paul (CEO) and Peter Liu (CTO), Aigens has grown intoa SaaS company known for being a market leader with significant wins, essentially being the first to introduce BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) QR code ordering technology to Hong Kong and Singapore.Headquartered in Hong Kong, Aigens serves more than 500 brands in F&B and Hospitality, including global names like KFC, Burger King, Starbucks, and IKEA. In the last three years, the company experienced its most significant growth, resulting in 6 regional offices and 120 team members. | $14M / Series A / Dec 05, 2022 | |
Carbon Click
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CarbonClick creates clever solutions that help people offset the carbon emissions of their purchases. It removes the need for businesses to build their offsetting program, by providing everything they need to offer carbon offsets to customers. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 11, 2022 | |
Hyper Food Robotics
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Hyper is an innovative company committed to reinventing the fast food industry by introducing a fully autonomous self-contained robotic store-factory hybrid capable of providing fresh, flavorful, healthy, and safe fast food that meets the demands of both the industry and the consumer. Hyper’s ground-breaking concept will propel the industry forwardand shape its future. | Seed / Oct 04, 2022 | |
ZYTLYN Technologies
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Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, ZYTLYN is a data analytics and AI company, helping customers address their most urgent problems and opportunities with granular, qualified, and actionable data, predictions and insights. Its Prediction as-a-Service product gives customers the ability to optimize critical decision making through predictiveinsights. Together with customers, ZYTLYN is helping the world’s largest industries adapt, recover and grow faster, with a total addressable market of close to $50 billion. | $1.1M / Seed / Aug 03, 2022 | |
Amplication
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Amplication is an open‑source development tool. It helps you develop quality Node.js applications without spending time on repetitive coding tasks. | $6.6M / Seed / Feb 09, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does Velocity Ventures invest in?
Velocity Ventures invests primarily in Hospitality, Travel and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Velocity Ventures's check size?
Velocity Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$8M at Seed and $8M–$14M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Velocity Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Velocity Ventures?
The team at Velocity Ventures includes Jean-Pierre Sedaghat (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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