Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Travel companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Travel industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top San Francisco Travel Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Airbnb
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Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the internet.
HotelTonight
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HotelTonight is a mobile hotel booking application that allows users to find and reserve same-day hotel rooms from their smartphones.
Aero
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Aero is an air travel company that matches air travelers with premium seats or shared charters.
WeTravel
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WeTravel is an online payment platform that offers organizers with pre-departure tools to collect funds and organize logistics.
Peek
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Peek is a travel activities marketplace based in San Francisco, California.
Kasa Living
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Kasa Living is a hospitality company that offers flexible accommodations for business and leisure travelers.
Duetto
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Duetto is hospitality’s only Revenue Strategy Platform, delivering SaaS applications that help hotels increase conversion and revenue.
Sojern
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Sojern provides data-driven digital marketing solutions for the travel industry.
FLYR Labs
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The Data-Driven Revenue Operating System for Airlines
Luka (dba Replika)
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Luka is a software development company based in San Francisco, California
Lyric
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Lyric is a tech and data-powered real estate and lifestyle hospitality company for the modern business traveler.
Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing)
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#1 Revenue Management Solution for Short-Term Rental Managers and Owners to Get, Grow, and Keep Revenue
Sonder
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Sonder is a tech-driven hospitality company offering spaces built for travel and life in cities around the world.
Grabr
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Grabr is a global peer-to-peer shopping and delivery platform.
GetMyBoat
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GetMyBoat is the world’s largest marketplace for boat rentals, yacht charters, and on-the-water experiences.
Akash Systems
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Akash Systems is focused on developing and supplying the next generation of communications gear for space satellites.
WanderJaunt
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WanderJaunt offers technology-enabled property management solutions for travelers, homeowners, and accommodations from around the world.
ZOZI
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ZOZI designs and develops a web-based bookings, payments, and customer management software for tour, activity, and event businesses.
Couchsurfing
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Couchsurfing is a travel community connecting a network of travelers, adventure seekers, and lifelong learners to share their experiences.
Tripping.com
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Tripping is the world’s largest metasearch site for vacation home rentals with more than 10 million rentals on site.
MyVR
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MyVR, a Guesty company, is a cloud-based, multi-channel management platform for vacation rental businesses.
Anyplace
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Live anyplace you want with flexible-term housing all over the world.
Wheelhouse
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Wheelhouse helps you manage your short term rentals as professionally and efficiently as major hotels.
Switchfly
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Switchfly is a travel-commerce and loyalty SaaS platform that enables enterprises to rapidly deploy state-of-the-art online travel services.
EatWith
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EatWith is a community that invites people to dine in homes, connect with hosts, share stories and enjoy homemade cuisine.
2nd Address
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2nd Address provides premium extended stays and corporate housing for business travelers.
misterb&b
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Misterb&b is an operator of a property rental marketplace used to connect travelers and hosts in the LGBTQ community.
Stayflexi
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Stayflexi is a Modern Operating System for Hotels and Vacation Rentals
Mozio
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Mozio is an airport transfer search and booking engine that enables users to find the fastest means of getting to the airport.
Wanderlog
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Wanderlog allows users to choose, organize, and map places in a Google Doc built just for travel planning.
Beenest
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Beenest is a home sharing platform for hosts to list their homes and for guests to find accommodations.
Little Passports
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Little Passports inspires children to learn about other countries and cultures.
Liftopia
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Liftopia operates an online and mobile marketplace and provides a technology platform for the ski and mountain activity industry.
FlightCar
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FlightCar inspires and enables local owners and visitors to come together to list and rent each other’s unique cars at airports nationwide.
GlampingHub
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Glamping is a developer of an online booking platform designed to offer camping and alternative accommodations for travelers.
Way2B1
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Way2B1 is an online platform that addresses the common challenges faced by families and family offices.
LoungeBuddy
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LoungeBuddy is the only single resource for travelers to be able to discover, book, and access airport lounges around the world.
Wingz
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Wingz offers peace of mind while traveling through predictable cost, confirmed availability, pre-booked, hassle-free, trusted drivers.
Cabin
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Cabin is the first hospitality transportation company on a mission to make the most of every waking and sleeping moment.
VacationRenter
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The best rentals from the top sites, all in one place.
Curated
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Curated is a provider of collaborative online shopping service intended to assist shoppers with high-consideration purchases.
Akia
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Akia is a Hotel Messaging Platform to interpret and service hotel guest needs using chat and artificial intelligence.
Arise Travel
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Modern infrastructure for the travel industry.
Limos.com
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Limos is an online mobile marketplace connecting passengers with limo and private car services worldwide.
Verlocal
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Free scheduling software and marketplace for local tours and activities.
Rizort
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Rizort is a luxury vacation marketplace that brings immersive vacation planning and booking services for travelers.
Backpack
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Backpack is a website that connects travelers and shoppers globally.
Farel
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Farel provides plug & play software to help regional airlines distribute their inventory and optimize their operations.
WorldMate
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WorldMate is a mobile travel app that allows its users to organize their travel plans and get real-time flight alerts.
GTRIIP
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GTRIIP is a document-less check-in and access platform that uses biometric sensors on smartphones to check-in faster at hotels.
Stitch
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Stitch is the world’s leading companionship and activity site for older adults.
ZeroDown
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ZeroDown is a real estate startup that focuses on providing an affordable homeownership solution.
woobly
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Woobly enables luxury restaurants to transform the guest dining experience, increase operational efficiency and guest retention.
SkyLights
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SkyLights offers a cinematic VR on planes as passenger inflight entertainment.
Vayable
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Vayable is an online marketplace enabling people to discover, buy and sell unique travel experiences, activities and extended trips.
Bestmap
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Bestmap is an aggregator of all mobility and transportation providers in one app.
30SecondsToFly – Claire
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A.I. Powered Travel Agency Automation
Avian
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Avian is a marketplace connecting airlines and travel resellers to establish more dynamic and flexible sales incentives and comissions
SpaceVR
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SpaceVR is a virtual reality (VR) experience in zero gravity floatation, delivering cinematic, virtual space, therapy and super learning.
Assist
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The Enterprise Chatbot Platform for Messaging and Voice
Safe Cash
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Safe Cash provides the Safe Cash Platform, which is a cryptographically-secure digital platform for exchanging digital tokens.
PlanChat
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Make Plans Happen. Plan anything socially. Get reimbursed instantly.
Untrodden
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Untrodden is fuel for wanderlust. An antidote to soulless travel. A place to feel awake and alive.
Jetpac
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Jetpac is a photo app that enables users to collect photos shared by Facebook friends of places they want to visit.
Explorest
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Explorest helps people discover and photograph the world’s greatest places via highly curated insights from today’s top travel influencers.
Carry
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Carry plans, books, and supports corporate travel for all your employees over Slack, email, and SMS.
OLSET
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OLSET is a technology provider offering big data based personalization solutions for the travel and hospitality industry.
Thatch
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Thatch is the most beautiful way to collect, curate and share the places and experiences that inspire you.
Riya Collective
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Riya Collective is a rental platform for south asian fashion .
Traveling Spoon
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Traveling Spoon enables travelers to experience local cuisines at people’s homes around the world.
GetGoing
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GetGoing is a tour agent for leisure travelers, providing multiple options of destinations to visit during their journey.
Stayful
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Stayful transforms your hotel travel experience by streamlining everything from booking to check out.
80days.me
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80days.me is the smart and effortless way to design multi-destination travel itineraries
VaycayHero
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VaycayHero is a safest and easiest way to rent vacation homes.
Acme Co.
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A venture capital firm that invests in early-stage consumer technology startups created by underrepresented founders across the U.S.
Foodgroup
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Social media app exclusively for restaurants and diners.
Airwander
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Airwander satisfies your wanderlust with free multi-day stopovers and cheap airfare | GIS creates virtually interlined flights for OTAs.
Shred Video
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Shred Video is one-click video editing for adventure travelers and action sports athletes.
OneRooftop
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OneRooftop creates vacation rental software that helps managers and owners simplify their lives.
Foodily
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Foodily is a social recipe network where users can discover and share recipes.
Orbit Fab
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Orbit Fab offers a supply of satellite propellant in Earth Orbit that expands the operational potential of new and existing space assets.
HeyLets
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HeyLets provides a social network built around experiences.
Loup
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Loup is where the private car experience meets public transportation.
Regenerative Travel
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Where your vacation meets your values™
Hotwire
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Hotwire.com is a travel site that offers low rates on airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises, and vacation packages.
Gymsurfing
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Gymsurfing is a fitness app that lets travelers instantly book day passes to gyms nearby and work out and contract-free.
ROOM Technology Ventures
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SaaS subscription based integrated technology and flexible inventory upgrading for the independent hotel segment.
Fareness
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Fareness provides an online platform used to find and book flights.
TripIt
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TripIt is a trip planner that enables its users to create a master travel itinerary and provide them with online and mobile access.
On Air Parking
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We make it ridiculously cheap and simple to park.
Parqay
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Parqay is a software-as-a-service platform that provides sales and marketing services for residential property management companies.
ASAPtickets
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ASAP Tickets provides you with discount airfares, airline seat inventory, group travels, multi-city flights, one-way and round-trip tickets.
Unboundly
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Unboundly makes international travel easier and more affordable through big data analysis and proprietary algorithms.
SnapStays, Inc.
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Thousands of Furnished Homes for Business Travelers
DealAngel
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DealAngel is a visual travel search & planning tool with powerful analytical elements.
