Top Hospitality Startups in 2024

Our platform and marketplace help great venues to be discovered, booked, and experienced by people looking to have extraordinary events. That's why national brands, hospitality groups, and independent venues invite us in, trusting us to help their events business run better and grow larger. We serve hospitality companies of all sizes with a platform to propel their businesses forward. From our very first customer, we listened, learned, and built, all in an effort to help them thrive. This level of service is in our DNA and woven into everything we do. Our customers come from all walks of life. No matter their venue size, every one of them started with a dream: create and deliver experiences to be enjoyed and remembered. Our goal is to back the dream—and the ones who hustle behind the scenes to help make it happen.

Loyalist is a venture-backed startup reimagining how guests engage with their favorite restaurants. Our technology platform enables restaurants to discover, foster, and deepen relationships with their guests.

Collective Retreats is a new, meaningful way to travel. Our portfolio of destination retreats allows our guests to explore unique destinations without sacrificing any luxuries, and to leave feeling inspired and connected. Collective Retreats is a venture-backed, fast growth hospitality company that concepts and operates asset-light, moveable hotels in premium, unique destinations. Each of our luxury retreats is designed to create amazing guest experiences, with an emphasis on thoughtful design, inspiring decor, once-in-a-lifetime food, curated local activities, and luxurious amenities. We're changing the travel industry by giving guests authentic, local experiences paired with service and luxury that you would find in a 5-star hotel - something we're able to achieve through our unique locations and structures.

Laasie powers a new kind of loyalty for 1,000+ hotels & resorts through AI and a network of 1,000+ instant gratification partners. No points, no tiers, no waiting for qualification. Awarded the #1 Direct Booking Platform by HotelTechAwards, Laasie incentivizes conversion and retention, driving over $500 million in direct bookings. Today’s savvy customers are uninspired by yesterday’s rigid loyalty programs, often leaving with unused points and limited brand affinity. Laasie uses artificial intelligence and big data to dynamically create loyalty with personalized, instant rewards that motivate customer actions like booking directly, making a return visit, joining a marketing program for offers, and more. The result? Customers enjoy enriched experiences with each brand interaction and partners benefit with increased net revenue, actionable data insights, strengthened customer relationships, and a scalable loyalty program that increases the lifetime value of every customer. Laasie has 2 core products with the foundation of AI x Instant Gratification: - Laasie Convert: incentivizing direct bookings with personalized instant gratification, driving revenue and conversions. We always see more users booking when we surface incentives in their booking path, driving substantial ROI for our hotel partners. - Laasie Retain: next generation loyalty platform - no points, no tiers, no waiting for qualification. A simple, turnkey, instant reward-based loyalty program making it very achievable for consumers to stay loyal with a brand. Laasie powers Margaritaville's instant reward-based loyalty program: margaritavilleperks.com It’s an exciting time for our growing team: we’ve raised a strong fundraising round from strategic investors, have a solid technology team, have achieved transformative results for our hotel clients and are looking to grow exponentially.

TapTab lets diners conveniently order and pay for meals, and tip and split tabs, using their mobile phones while in restaurants. And it does much more...

Nappr is a marketplace that offers flexible 4 to 10-hour hotel stays for a fraction of the cost of typical overnight rates - and with all the amenities included. We've got over 1,000 properties spanning 28 countries from brands like Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and Sheraton and we're located in many major metro areas and airports. This helps busy on-the-go professionals catch up on rest and meet the demands of their unique schedules, and it also gives hotels the ability to fill their unused capacity and generate extra revenue with convenient, hourly scheduling.

Hospitable, an Inc. 5000 company, gifts short-term rental hosts their valuable time back. Founded in 2016, Hospitable’s tools allow hosts to automate the most time-consuming elements of hosting. Hosts use Hospitable to answer 90% of guest messages with AI-powered automated messaging, to automate their team notifications so they never miss a clean, and to avoid double bookings with a synchronized calendar across booking channels. Hospitable allows hosts to build their own direct booking website with guest vetting, $5M damage protection, and payment processing built-in. Hospitable also connects with popular 3rd party online travel agencies such as Airbnb, Vrbo, and [Booking.com](booking.com).

Wise Assistant is the super-app turning social media influencers into freelance marketers with thriving businesses. We match those same marketers with agencies and their clients for campaigns that drive awareness and sales through social media and influencer collaborations. We've helped businesses launch new locations, expand into new markets, and promote new product lines! Our integrated suite of marketing tools helps marketers and agencies connect more efficiently, driving cost-effective revenue growth. Whether they're building sleek landing pages, accepting payments, or automating outreach, Wise Assistant is here to help. We’re a scrappy international, team that is insanely passionate about using tech to help the world live more freely and intentionally.

KYC is the hotel industry's most comprehensive Suite of Systems, eliminating 25+ legacy systems while providing truly efficient, streamlined workflows for an industry battered by labor shortages. With a heavy focus on genuine Artificial Intelligence to empower Hoteliers to focus on Guests, KYC delivers an empathetic, caring experience to our partners.

dineoutwith.us is a cool new concept in dining – dinner parties at restaurants! The basics: We partner with best-of-breed restaurants to offer private dinner party experiences for groups of 6 or more people, who are invited by a friend, colleague or loved one to enjoy a special, custom menu created especially for dineoutwith.us. Our platform allows you to search for restaurants that have the availability at the date and time, and for the party size, that you need. Each restaurant offers several menus, and a choice of special “flourishes” to enrich the experience. We then take over and handle invitations, any special dietary needs that your guests request, communications and payment. It’s all designed so that you and your guests can do what you came for – have a great time over great food!