Top Hospitality Startups in 2024

Modernizing the hotel technology stack with cloud-based solutions to improve antiquated workflows. Canary’s founders have extensive experience in hospitality. Hospitality is at the core of our values, and we understand the nuances of what goes on behind the scenes at a property. We believe that the guest comes first, and solutions should enhance the guest experience.

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

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.

Industrious is reinventing how people work by creating elegant, welcoming office spaces that make people proud and excited to come to work. Private glass-walled offices, beautiful common areas, and amazing hospitality have made Industrious the country’s leading premium co-working business. We have a seasoned leadership team and have raised over $75 million from world-class investors. 2017 is an inflection point for us, growing from 12 to over 30 locations, tripling our team size, exploring new business lines to better serve our members, and kicking off our foray into the digital world with our new products. All of this is driven by our amazing team. Here's a quote from a recent team survey: “I've never worked with a team of such smart, engaged, kind, empathetic people before. I am proud and excited to work with our team and to help my teammates grow. Industrious' culture is welcoming, encouraging, and fun, making me feel appreciated as an employee and part of a tight-knit team.”

ChowNow stands out among the typical platform in the world of online food ordering. We help local restaurants thrive by offering the sharpest digital tools and services to grow in the modern world. Everything we design puts local restaurants and their diners first. Our products include: websites, custom-made apps, access to the most popular online ordering hubs, marketing tools, and valuable customer data. Most importantly, our business revolves around principles of fairness and sustainability—when we say commission-free, we mean it. Diversity, teamwork, and mutual respect are among our core company values. We provide support and create opportunities for everyone on the ChowNow team. To this date, we’ve build over 20,000 apps for our restaurant partners—a first for our line of business.

Aya Healthcare, Inc. is a leading provider of travel healthcare and per diem staffing solutions to healthcare facilities throughout the United States.

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.

"VOICEplug Order" enables frictionless voice-based food ordering for restaurants. The product seamlessly integrates with restaurant websites, apps, and systems (phone system, drive-through, kiosks, etc.) so that they can start voice interactions and transactions with customers. Customers can search items with multiple filters, sort and compare options, place orders for multiple items simultaneously with customized options, make payments, track orders, provide feedback, and more.

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.

We are a critical link between growers of a community and consumers, and we feel a responsibility to protect the future of real food. We are committed to supporting the smaller and mid-size growers who are doing their farming sustainably. We are committed to creating transparency around what is in your food and where the food comes from, and we want to create more accessibility to healthy, real food for more people. We set up our spaces with real food and preserve the building structure, decorating with works from local artist that will blend with the communities we serve. Our food is healthy and real and we help communities make the best choices for what they eat by having sustainably grown food in our spaces.