Withlocals is a travel marketplace that connects tens of thousands of travellers each month with verified local hosts in over 30 cities across Europe and Asia. The platform offers personalised private tours and activities at scale, matching experiences to travellers’ passions such as food, music and sports. Hosts are central to the product and drive high satisfaction — Withlocals reports an average customer happiness score of 9.8 out of 10. The company positions itself as an alternative to standard tours and skip-the-line tickets by delivering uniquely personal experiences. With the new funding, Withlocals plans to expand localisation, strengthen its community of hosts, grow in existing and new cities, and broaden its range of passion-based experiences. Withlocals operates a marketplace that connects travelers with local hosts to provide personalized, private tours and activities. The platform lists 1,200 fully-customizable private tours led by 900 local hosts across 24 cities. It reports over 10,000 people participating in experiences each month and booking volumes have increased an average of 20% per month for the last 18 months. The company plans to expand into 40 more cities in the next year, including New York, Florence, and Hong Kong, and to add multiple languages and new mobile functionality. Currently 42% of bookings are made via the Withlocals mobile app, and the company expects mobile bookings to grow to 85% by the end of 2018. Withlocals positions itself as an alternative to mass-market packaged tours and aggregators such as Viator or GetYourGuide by focusing on local-led, private experiences. Withlocals is a Netherlands-founded peer-to-peer marketplace that enables locals to sell travel experiences across three categories: EAT Withlocals, TOURS Withlocals, and ACTIVITIES Withlocals. Hosts can offer authentic meals in private homes, guided local tours, and workshops such as fruit-carving or tuk-tuk driving. The platform generates revenue through peer-to-peer transactions on the site. The company plans to launch out of beta this fall and is targeting Southeast Asia as its primary market, positioning itself differently from U.S. rival Vayable. Withlocals has set a goal to create 100,000 new "restaurants" on the platform within the next three years. It raised funding to support these expansion and launch plans.

Total raised

$14M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Mar 2019