Top Hospitality Startups in 2027

Zerocater builds revolutionary corporate catering and cafeteria solutions employees love while saving companies millions of dollars as they transition to the hybrid workplace. With its Cloud Cafe, Hybrid Cafe, Managed Cafe, and Event Cafe products; Zerocater has built corporate cafeteria and office catering programs for companies of all sizes from growing startups to the Fortune 500. Thousands of companies like TikTok, Datadog, Airtable, and McKinsey choose Zerocater for the customized, consistent, and diverse meal experiences its products offer, while also reducing costs by giving companies the flexibility to only pay for the employees who come into the office. Zerocater currently offers its corporate cafeteria and office catering products in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Austin, Denver, Seattle, and Washington D.C. with additional markets in the U.S. and Canada coming online every month. Since completing YCombinator in Winter 2011, Zerocater has raised $38.5M from leading investors including Cleveland Avenue, Remus Capital, Romulus Capital, Struck Capital, SV Angel, Keith Rabois, Yuri Milner, Paul Buchheit, and Justin Kan. For more information visit zerocater.com and follow @Zerocater on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter. Check out our company profile on Workatastartup: workatastartup.com/directory/171

TapTab is a TikTok-style interface from which diners can place orders and make reservations directly from videos.

Laasie powers a new kind of loyalty for 3,000+ hotels worldwide through AI, personalized rewards, and the power of choice. Laasie helps hotels drive direct bookings, increase guest spend, and build lasting customer relationships by delivering the right incentive at the right moment. Today’s travelers don’t all value loyalty the same way. Laasie uses artificial intelligence and real-time guest data to create personalized loyalty experiences with instant rewards, points, cash back, perks, and more. The result? Guests enjoy more relevant experiences while hotels benefit from increased revenue, actionable data insights, stronger customer relationships, and higher lifetime value. Laasie connects the entire guest journey — from acquiring new customers and converting them into direct bookers to increasing engagement during their stay and driving long-term retention. Laasie’s platform includes four core products: * Laasie Retain: A flexible loyalty engine that supports points, instant rewards, cash back, perks, tiers, referrals, and personalized experiences to drive engagement and repeat bookings. * Laasie Convert: An AI-powered conversion engine that delivers personalized incentives during the booking journey to increase direct bookings and revenue. * Laasie Acquire: Helps hotels turn anonymous website visitors into known guests through personalized loyalty and rewards. * Laasie Flex: Extends loyalty beyond the booking engine with targeted rewards across campaigns, pre-arrival, on-property experiences, and guest recovery. Together, these products create a full-funnel loyalty platform that helps hotels acquire, convert, engage, and retain more customers. Laasie powers loyalty and guest engagement for 3,000+ hotel properties worldwide, with 30M+ enrolled guests and $2B+ in loyalty reservations. It’s an exciting time for our growing team as we continue building the next generation of hotel loyalty through AI, data, and personalized rewards.

PriceLabs (chicagobusiness.com/innovators/what-if-you-could-adjust-prices-meet-demand) is a cloud-based software for vacation and short-term rentals to help them dynamically manage prices just the way large hotels and airlines do! Our mission is to help small businesses in the travel and tourism industry by giving them access to advanced analytical systems that are often restricted to large companies.

Airbnb is a community marketplace for people to list, discover and book unique spaces around the world through mobile phones or the internet. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences at any price point, with over 2M listings in 34K cities and 192 countries. With a growing community of users, Airbnb also provides an easy way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions.

Mr. Black is a real-time, cloud-based, CRM, reservation, and nightclub management platform. Built by hospitality owners for hospitality owners. The platform provides end-to-end control over all activities within a nightclub and streamlines communication and accountability while driving profitability.

Founded by IIT and Top US University graduates, Sciative Solutions is a leader in helping companies find right prices for every product, every market, every customer, every transaction. We are leading the Dynamic Pricing Revolution with our award winning machine learning and artificial intelligence powered technology tools. Sciative is powering price optimization of +100 Million prices globally across industries - such as retail, ecommerce, hospitality, travel, entertainment, technology services, CPG, and industrial products. For example our product in Retail is called BRIO. BRIO leverages big data architecture and applies cutting edge machine learning algorithms to help users find optimal prices for their products and services. A rich set of analytics features - Sales analytics dashboards, scenario planning with, a/b testing, 2nd margin estimation - allows users to make informed decisions and stay on top of business dynamics at play. This SaaS platform is live with more than 200 retailers in the country in electronics, fashion, cosmetics, and furniture domains. Our clients are getting 20% to 40% improvements in margins.

OpenTable operates as an online restaurant booking service. Its platform enables guests to discover and book tables every time they dine. Its growing number of international teams and offices are helping connect restaurants and diners with their communities worldwide. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

KYC is the global hotel industry's premier SaaS platform, providing the most comprehensive suite of systems to manage the world's top hotels, replacing 25+ legacy systems with a modern integrated platform.

Kasa Living, Inc. is a real estate technology company that is building a global accommodations brand. The company partners with owners of multifamily and boutique hospitality properties, transforming underutilized real estate into stylishly-furnished, professionally managed units that cater to business and leisure travelers seeking trustworthy and comfortable accommodations. Kasa was founded in 2016 by a team that includes technology and real estate professionals who previously drove growth at firms, including Airbnb, KKR, and Apollo. The company is headquartered in San Francisco.