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Travel, Hospitality & Experience

6 categories for founders and investors.

Travel, booking, hospitality, restaurants, tourism, events, guest experience, and experience-led services.

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Existing Category

Booking-Tech

Booking and Ticketing Systems

The Booking-Tech sector revolves around technological solutions for booking and ticketing systems. It includes online booking platforms, reservation management systems, and ticketing software.

  • Streamlining hotel and accommodation booking processes through online platforms and mobile apps.
  • - Facilitating ticket booking and reservations for events, concerts, flights, and transportation services.
  • - Enabling efficient scheduling and booking systems for services like spas, salons, and healthcare appointments.

Example leaders: Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia

Existing Category

Hospitality-Tech

Hotels and Resorts

The Hospitality-Tech sector revolves around technological solutions and innovations in the hospitality industry. It includes hotel management systems, guest experience platforms, and smart hotel amenities.

  • Utilizing mobile apps and self-service kiosks for streamlined check-in, check-out, and personalized guest experiences.
  • Implementing data analytics and customer relationship management (CRM) systems to deliver personalized recommendations and targeted marketing in the hospitality industry.
  • Integrating smart room technologies, such as voice-activated assistants and IoT devices, to enhance guest comfort and convenience.

Example leaders: Airbnb, Marriott International, Hilton Worldwide

Existing Category

Rest-Tech

Restaurants and Fast Food

The Rest-Tech sector focuses on technological solutions and innovations in the restaurant and fast-food industry. It includes online food ordering platforms, restaurant management systems, and digital menu solutions.

  • Revolutionizing the restaurant and fast food industry with innovative technologies for enhanced dining experiences and efficient operations.
  • Developing mobile ordering and payment apps, self-service kiosks, and digital menu boards for streamlined customer interactions.
  • Implementing kitchen automation systems, inventory management software, and data analytics for improved operational efficiency and cost optimization.

Example leaders: McDonald's, Starbucks, Domino's Pizza

Existing Category

Travel-Tech

Travel and Tourism

The Travel-Tech sector encompasses technological solutions and innovations in travel and tourism. It includes travel booking platforms, travel itinerary management apps, and tourism experience platforms.

  • Enhance the travel and tourism industry with technological solutions, providing personalized experiences and seamless travel services.
  • Developing travel booking platforms that offer convenient search, reservation, and itinerary management for travelers.
  • Implementing travel recommendation systems that leverage AI and user preferences to provide personalized travel suggestions.

Example leaders: Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia

New Category

Restaurant-Tech

Restaurant Operations, Ordering, POS, and Kitchen Workflows

The Restaurant-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on restaurant operations, ordering, pos, and kitchen workflows. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in restaurant operations, ordering, pos, and kitchen workflows with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the travel, hospitality & experience sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Wedding-Tech

Wedding Planning, Vendors, and Guest Management

The Wedding-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on wedding planning, vendors, and guest management. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in wedding planning, vendors, and guest management with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the travel, hospitality & experience sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

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