Finals to be held August 15 to pick winners from four regions
Eighteen travel tech startups have been selected for the finals of the 2024 Global Startup Pitch. The competition, in its third year, is jointly produced by WiT and Phocuswright. The virtual event will be held on August 15.
Judges selected these startups from a crop of nearly 200 entries received for the global competition to surface the best travel startups across four different regions of the world.
As with previous years, an additional Wildcards category was created by Phocuswright and WiT to surface ideas that are particularly global, future-oriented, hard to solve and attack next-generation challenges. This year, in addition to the regional finalists, we selected two promising startups focused on revolutionizing the in-destination experience.
The format was refreshed for 2024 with two key objectives – to recognize scaling startups and to discover seed stage, emerging companies. The definitions are as follows:
Seedup: Under three years and which have raised no more than US$5m
Scaleup: Three to eight years and which have raised no more than US$10m
Seedups will compete against Seedups, and Scaleups against Scaleups for each region, and winners for each region will be chosen during the August virtual event. The winners will travel to Singapore for showcase presentations at WiT Singapore, Oct 14-16.
The audience at WiT Singapore will vote on their favorite Seedup and Scaleup, and the People’s Choice winners will be showcased at The Phocuswright Conference, November 19-21, in Phoenix and WiT KoreaSeoul, November 26-27, in Seoul.
Here are the finalist participants:
APAC
Belli (Seedup)
Market for Good (Seedup)
amusetravel (Scaleup)
Neoma (Scaleup)
Europe
Like Magic (Seedup)
Trapi (Seedup)
Expect Me (Scaleup)
Hotel Treats (Scaleup)
North America
Nowadays (Seedup)
Tern.Travel (Seedup)
Superlogic (Scaleup)
The Host Company (Scaleup)
Emerging Markets
Aeropaye (Seedup)
atlaseek (Seedup)
Flapper (Scaleup)
PlanYourTrip (Scaleup)
Wildcards: Revolutionizing the In-Destination Experience
iWander (Seedup)
Autio (Scaleup)
The Global Startup Pitch competition is part of an ongoing commitment by Phocuswright and Web in Travel to cultivate innovation through a platform of events and programs including WiT Bootcamps, Phocuswright’s Startup Program, PhocusWire’s Hot25 Travel Startups, and Phocuswright’s Launch pitch competition.
