Travel Capitalist Ventures

Travel Capitalist Ventures is an investor that puts money only into travel businesses. Its mandate is global, with investments made in six countries so far, and it says its people come from the travel trade itself. Beyond funding, it aims to give portfolio companies practical help.

What Travel Capitalist Ventures does

• Venture and private equity funding: capital for travel companies, typically from Series A onwards and occasionally a large seed round.
• Industry guidance: advice drawn from experience inside the travel sector.
• Introductions: connections to partners and suppliers in the travel trade.
• Technical resources: help on technology matters for portfolio companies.
• Follow-on investment: usually takes part in every other round, to avoid conflicts of interest between rounds.

Who it works with

Travel founders and companies at each stage of growth. The firm is comfortable with frontier and emerging markets, having invested in Brazil, India, Pakistan and the Middle East, and it plans to expand in Africa and look at Asia-Pacific.

Key facts

• Investment stage: Series A onwards
• Role in rounds: Acts as lead investor
• Co-investors: Global Founders, Skyreach Capital and NBI
• Countries invested in: Six