# Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in June 2026

## HOWZAT Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS

Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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## Thayer Investment Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Travel, Software, SaaS

Thayer Investment Partners (TIP) is a strategic investment platform driving the future of innovation across the travel, real estate and hospitality sectors.

## Goodwater Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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## Openfund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Travel, SaaS

Openfund is a new seed capital venture, focusing on start-ups around software, mobile and the web. Based in Athens, Greece, the Openfund brings together an exceptional team of executives, an extensive list of advisors and a number of passionate investors to provide everything a team of entrepreneurs needs to turn ideas into products and success.

## Erik Blachford
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Travel, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Erik Blachford is based out of San Francisco, California and is on the Board of Directors at Fora. Erik has previously served as CEO of Expedia, Inc. and IAC/InterActiveCorp's travel division, IAC Travel (including online travel businesses Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Classic Custom Vacations and Interval International), CEO atButterfield & Robinson and CEO at Terrapass, Inc.His prior positions at Expedia Inc. included SVP of Marketing & Planning and various roles in product management. Erik is an active private company investor, serving on boards including Glassdoor, Zillow, Siteminder, Liftopia and Terrapass, and participates in non-profit boards including EcoAmerica, The Cutting Ball Theatre and the US National Council of the World Wildlife Fund.Erik holds a bachelor's degree in English and certificate in theatre from Princeton University and a master's in business administration from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.

## Practica Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2B, Software, Information Technology

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## SOSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

## PAR Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Travel, Software, Transportation

PAR Capital Management is a Massachusetts-based private investment company focused on long-term investments.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more.
From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster.
Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together.
Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

## SV Aangel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

## Techstars Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Techstars helps founders succeed. Through our global accelerators, we invest in early-stage startups led by founders building a better future for everyone.

## ATX Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

ATX Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm in Austin Texas with funds investing in B2B software, marketplaces, and applications.

## Real Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com

## Lightbank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

Lightbank VC is a $700M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage vertically focused AI, consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr(NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social (NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Extend, Attain, Paytient and Expel.

## Great Oaks Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.

## TA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

TA Ventures is a global, network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups that redefine the industries of tomorrow. We typically write initial checks of $100-250K for Pre-Seed and Seed companies and actively provide follow-on investments.
We pride ourselves on swift execution, hands-on support, and leveraging our extensiveinternational network. By connecting our portfolio companies with growth-oriented co-investors, we help them scale effectively through subsequent funding rounds. Additionally, we draw on our deep industry expertise to offer portfolio companies and partner VCs access to top-tier, cost-efficient R&D talent.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Accomplice
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Internet

Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.

## NFX
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

## Cabiedes & Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion

Cabiedes & Partners is a Spanish venture capital firm that provides seed funding and early-stage and later-stage investment services.


Cabiedes & Partners was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

## JetBlue Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Carlos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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## Forerunner
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Software

Forerunner is a venture capital firm focused on the modern consumer, investing at the intersection of culture and invention.

## InMotion Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Transportation, Travel

InMotion Ventures is the venture capital arm of Jaguar Land Rover. The team collaborates with subject matter experts at JLR to identify and invest in startups shaping the future of the automotive industry.The fund allocates capital and resources to purpose-driven businesses aligned with Jaguar Land Rover’s global strategy, and prioritisesenvironmental and societal impact alongside strategic & financial returns.

## Mumbai Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

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## HR Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dreieich, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, Software

HR Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, which is part of the HahnAir Group. HR Ventures is based near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. HR Ventures is also an EVCA member, the European private equity & venture capital association.HR Ventures was founded to support exceptional entrepreneurs in achieving their goals together aspartners. We define ourselves as an equal partner for all entrepreneurial challenges with in-depth expertise and a large network. The company builds a strong relationship with each founder to create outstanding companies. We are here to

## Journey Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Travel, Software, Information Technology

Journey Ventures develops a portfolio of companies in the fields of tourism, travel tech and the hotel industry that have reached a stage of technological development.

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

## East Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

## Melih Odemis
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. 
Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. 
Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.

## Angels Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Angels Capital philosophy is to find and support at 1 able to lead a project. Their goal is to support the entrepreneurial, helping to create new businesses, help grow their business sector, generate employment and create wealth.

## Bpifrance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.

## Tamarisc Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Hospitality, Travel

Tamarisc invests in and helps build companies that improve the human habitat through innovating at the intersection of real estate, health, and technology.

## IAN Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value.The Network, in addition to money, provide constantaccess to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

## General Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

## VentureFriends
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Software

Backing ambitious early-stage founders across Europe and MENA

## Structure Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, Travel

We are Structure Capital. We help passionate teams build great companies by investing seed-stage capital, time, experience and relationships

## Upslope Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Formerly Galvanize Ventures, Upslope Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in startups across the country. They believe exceptional teams can originate from any location. They provide more than capital and introductions. By leveraging their network they aim to empower entrepreneurs with the resources they need to havetheir best chance at success - even if they don’t invest.

## Bullpen Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Bullpen is a venture capital fund that invests post-seed capital into early stage companies.

## Inovia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.

## GSF
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

GSF is a tech-focused early stage venture capital firm, providing the first cheque to founders from incubation to seed.

## Sydney Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy.They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.

## Bessemer Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

## QueensBridge Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

QueensBridge Venture Partners invests in technology companies in highly competitive and visible markets.The company's collective experience has shaped our approach to investing by allowing us to quickly recognize and capitalize on key trends. Furthermore, by focusing on co-investment opportunities with leading venture capital funds and angelinvestors in Silicon Valley, we have unique access to very attractive companies.Successful venture capital investing is highly influenced by a network of reputable investors. QBVP aligns itself with firms that have proven their ability to source and invest in the next generation of leading technology companies in Silicon Valley and emerging markets. We bring capital along with our network of industry veterans and corporate relationships to accelerate the development of the companies in which we co-invest. We seek to partner with firms that generate the most value among VCs and back the companies that reach enterprise value of over $1 billion on a regular basis.The general partners of QBVP are industry veterans in consumer products & services, media & entertainment, and financial services. We have (i) advised tech, media, and entertainment companies in raising over $20 billion of capital at bulge bracket Wall Street firms (e.g. Goldman Sachs; Deutsche Bank) (ii) started over twenty businesses, (iii) produced and/or recorded six number 1 albums on the Billboard 200, (iv) sold over 25 million records worldwide, (v) have products in over 3,000 stores.

## Innuvik Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bottighofen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Travel, Apps

Swiss based early stage startup-investor. Invests in internet startups only. Specialized in Online Travel.

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