London’s 101 Fastest Growing Travel Startups

At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.

We’ve ranked the top 101 Travel companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).

We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:

• Track record
• Executive leadership
• Market share
• Innovation
• ESG rating

Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Top Travel Companies & Startups (London)

Pollen

Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.

Duffel

Duffel provides an online platform that allows users to search, book, and manage flights from multiple airlines.

Secret Escapes

Secret Escapes is a members-only travel club offering discounted rates on luxury hotels and holidays in the UK.

Splyt

Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.

Triptease

Triptease is a travel SaaS company that empowers hotels to recapture guest relationships and increase direct bookings.

Velocity Black

Pioneering the future of luxury lifestyle.

Skyports

Skyports is an urban air mobility infrastructure provider and drone delivery operator for aviation and managing end to end drone deliveries.

Victor

Victor is a London, UK-based private jet charter marketplace.

Journee

Exciting trips. Matched to you. Without the admin.

onefinestay

Onefinestay give people a new way to experience a place staying in the finest homes in their favorite cities.

Butter.co.uk

Butter lets you spread the cost of shopping from any online store with a simple monthly instalment plan. Download the app now!

Hiyacar

Hiyacar is a UK peer to peer car sharing platform.

OneTwoTrip

OneTwoTrip is a full scale b2c and b2b online travel service.

Pluto

Pluto helps travel lovers discover inspiration, plan their trips and connect with like-minded people. It’s like Pinterest, but for travel.

Stasher

Stasher is the world’s first luggage storage network.

Eurostar International

Eurostar International is a high speed train that directly links the UK to France and Belgium via the channel tunnel.

SilverRail Technologies

SilverRail offers best-in-class technical solutions that help railways and travel distributors easily connect with each other.

Fornova

Fornova empowers hotels to optimise revenue and distribution while reducing costs and improving forecasting.

Yotel

Yotel offers affordable hotels with elements of luxury in smart spaces.

AirPortr

AirPortr is a Software and Service company developing and delivering innovative baggage services for passengers, airlines and airports.

SKOOT

SKOOT is a platform for Climate Change helping businesses, communities and individuals to IDENTIFY, OFFSET & AVOID their CO2 footprints.

WeSwap

WeSwap is a mobile application that allows users to swap different types of currency with others.

HouseTrip

HouseTrip is an online marketplace enabling individuals and holiday rental management companies to rent out their properties to guests.

Abellio

Abellio delivers rail and bus services to passengers in Scotland, England, and Germany.

Much Better Adventures

Much Better Adventures helps people organize their skiing, cycling, or road biking holiday directly with specialist independent operators.

Route Reports

Route Reports sells predictive analytics for transport providers such as bus and train companies.

LuckyTrip

LuckyTrip is a travel inspiration app that lets you find a trip in one tap.

Connexin

Connexin specialises in award winning Fibre Optic and Voice Services.

Zeelo

Zeelo is the smart bus platform for organizations, providing flexible turn-key, plug-in and SaaS transportation programs.

HotelRunner

SaaS enabled B2B network for accommodations and travel agencies to find, contract, connect, and transact with each other online.

TravelTime Technologies

Technology that can map, rank and sort location based data by travel time instead of distance. Available as an API or analytics plugins.

Travel Creators

Keeping Travel Human by Inspiring Global Travelers and connecting them to Travel Creators.

Wevat

Wevat is the best way to get your tax back on shopping in the UK.

Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station is a travel and tourism company.

Hotelmize

Hotelmize is a platform designed to improve the pricing and booking process of hotel rooms using big data analysis.

VizEat

VizEat is a European startup that operates a “social dining platform.

HolidayFox

HolidayFox is a platform to discover and book family staycations. From a fun filled day out with the kids through to a whole holiday,

NextRetreat

Bring Your Team Together

BeRightBack

The world’s first fixed price travel subscription service.

Love Home Swap

Love Home Swap is a home-swapping website enabling members to exchange and rent homes.

NextRetreat

Bring Your Team Together

Citymapper

Citymapper is a transport app for cities.

Heygo

Real-time, bite-sized and interactive video streams from our local experts around the world.

minicabit

Smart marketplace to connect customers & business with all types of cab service providers of today and those in the mobility future

SalesTrip

Expense management and travel booking system on Salesforce. Better track and justify expense spend with SalesTrip.

Staykeepers

Ground-breaking tech that fills empty multifamily & student housing apartments & rooms by widening marketing channels to new audiences.

YETiCO

We build software for card machines that solves real world problems.

HalalBooking

World’s No1 search website for halal-conscious travelers

Sweep

Sweep is building the first end-to-end travel & expenses management system for European SME’s.

Rocco Forte Hotels

Rocco Forte Hotels is a luxurious high end hotel chain.

AltoVita

Award-winning enterprise software layered with a human-centric approach to power the corporate accommodations sector.

Bukit

Bukit is an aggregator that connects service providers to people, offers a SaaS to businesses.

Luxtripper

Luxtripper is a luxury travel company that operates an online travel booking site which matches users with suitable holiday destinations.

Beeline

Smart navigation, made simple. For a global community of adventurers

Tab

We’re revolutionising the way travellers discover, plan and book a trip.

Road.Travel

The 1st Global Curated Routes Ecosystem for Sustainable Car Travels and Safe In-Car Experience for Travellers

Plum Guide

Plum Guide is the definitive list of the world’s best vacation rentals.

easyGuide

Discover and book tickets to top attractions, activities, experiences, tours and theatre shows in your favourite locations around the world!

Everyman Media Group

Everyman is an independent cinema group in terms of cinema venues, screens and admissions.

Byway Travel

Byway Travel provides slow travel trips that take the scenic route to local stays, off-the-beaten path experiences.

Effective Space

Effective Space manufactures spacecrafts intended to extend the life of communication satellites.

The Thinking Traveller

The Thinking Traveller is a multiple award-winning villa rental company specialising in luxury villas.

tripAbrood

tripAbrood is an AI-driven travel platform for families to discover and book holidays.

Upgrade Pack

Upgrade Pack is your key to a better hotel room or airplane seat.

Snaptrip

Snaptrip is a marketplace for people to discover the best last minute cottage holiday deals in the UK.

Travel Curious

A travel technology company that provides ‘private tours and activities as a service’ to hospitality and travel companies globally

Nightset

Nightset is a nightlife marketplace that connects people, venues, and brands on one platform globally.

WAYN

WAYN is a travel and lifestyle-based social network enabling users to meet like-minded people.

UnderTheDoormat

Our mission is to redefine the future of accommodation.

The Adventure People

Online platform for adventure holidays connecting customers to local adventure providers

Veeve

Characterful homes. Dedicated service. Memorable stays.

Parabis Group

Parabis Group provides legal solutions for insurance, travel, and other related industries.

Key Travel

Key Travel is a travel management company that offers its services to NGO, academic, and faith sectors.

Splento

Professional Photographers on Demand

Culture Trip

Culture Trip is a travel e-commerce brand with content at its core

the Bike Club

the Bike Club is a platform that offers pay monthly kids bikes that are exchanged as children grow up.

thesqua.re

Inventive corporate serviced apartments provider with loyalty programme, all-in-one online accounts, community events and concierge app.

Troubadour Goods

Troubadour Goods is a menswear fashion brand

Grapevine

Grapevine is an AI-powered digital concierge providing tools to increase ancillary attachment rates and capture in-destination revenues.

YMCA East London

Provides support & accommodation to young homeless people.

indie

Indie is a travel company that provides software to connect guides and customers locally and worldwide.

Trust Payments

Trust Payments is a global unified payments group for global pay-in, pay-out and customer journey technologies.

Edge Retreats

The global curated marketplace for luxury villa rentals, with exceptional service and expert concierge

AVUXI

Ranking the popularity of every place on Earth. Makers of TopPlace™ – the leading plug-n-play GeoPopularity engine with Worldwide coverage.

Wizme

Wizme makes meetings and events management magical through superior ease of use and smart technologies.

Festicket

Festicket is a marketplace to discover and book music festival tickets, accommodation, transfers and extras.

Faredirect

Faredirect is helping airlines to build and scale ancillary revenues.

Ubio

Ubio provide direct booking capabilities for travel metasearch websites and apps.

VISXA

VISXA is a platform that connects immigrants and travelers with immigration and travel experts all around the world.

Esplorio

Esplorio uses social data and our iOS app to create a digital travel journal that you can use to re-live and share your adventures.

ocxee

We aim to make the student’s life hassle-free and easy. From accommodation, pickup/drop, flight bookings, Job assistance and much more.

Big Bus Tours

Big Bus Tours is a global operator of premium open-top sightseeing tours.

Timescenery

All-in-One Trip Planner and Marketplace – the next stage in travel tech after metasearch | Plug and Play 2017

incrediblue

incrediblue is a U.K.-based online marketplace for boat rentals that helps travelers plan their rides in advance.

Trainline

Trainline is the world’s leading independent digital rail platform.

Crepeaffaire

Crêpeaffaire offers freshly prepared crêpes, waffles, coffees and smoothies.

Aura – Museum Genius

Aura is building the world’s leading content platform for museums, storytellers and visitors.

SkiYodl

SkiYodl is a platform that allows its users to search and book their ski trips in real-time.

Big Data for Humans

Big Data for Humans provides a data science-as-a-service platform for customer marketing in retail and travel sectors.

Roadbook

ROADBOOK is an innovative digital media platform designed for a new era of travel.

Chic Retreats

A luxury travel marketplace using the latest in digital technology to connect our collection of independent hotels to affluent travellers