• ROH

  Led · Equity · Apr 2025

  ROH provides an end-to-end payments management platform purpose-built for hotels and large hospitality groups, automating workflows across contracts, invoices, payments and folios. The platform reduces manual intervention in hotel payments, streamlines collections, manages chargebacks and ensures card‑network compliance to mitigate financial risk. ROH launched a proprietary AI application in 2024 that ingests files from property management and other systems and drove a 523% increase in automatically generated bookings based on executed contracts. In 2024 the platform managed nearly a quarter billion dollars in invoices. The company says the new capital will fuel rapid platform expansion and enhance its ability to process continuous flows of data. ROH counts customers including Loews Hotels & Co, Crescent Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International, Auberge Resorts Collection, Noble House Hotels & Resorts and Evolution Hospitality.

• Lighthouse

  Participated · Series C · Nov 2024

  Lighthouse offers data analytics and business-intelligence tools for the hospitality sector, focusing on pricing and operational insights rather than bookings or staff management. The platform crunches 400 terabytes of travel and market data daily and leverages AI to surface insights for large hotel chains and smaller operators. It reports more than 70,000 hospitality providers using its tools, including customers such as Holiday Inn, Radisson and NH Hotel Group. The company plans to use its new capital to build out additional data sets, analytics tools and AI functionality, and may pursue further acquisitions to evolve its business. Lighthouse has completed four acquisitions to date, including Stardekk earlier this year. The company is based in London and targets a global hospitality market estimated at roughly $15 trillion annually. OTA Insight builds business intelligence and big-data analytics tools for hotels, offering products such as Market Insight, Rate Insight, Revenue Insight and Parity Insight to help operators price rooms and manage availability and channels. The software is used by roughly 55,000 hotel properties worldwide. The company reports being profitable for years, including through the pandemic. OTA Insight targets a large, still-untapped market of independent and chain hotels across the globe and emphasizes serving both family-run properties and global chains. Leadership says it will continue investing in its technology stack and expand sales efforts, particularly across the Americas in 2022. Founders include Gino Engels (co-founder and CCO) and the company is led by CEO Sean Fitzpatrick. OTA Insight offers a cloud-based data intelligence platform that helps hotels, resorts and vacation rentals optimize revenue and improve profitability. The platform provides revenue managers with real-time access to competitor rates, online channel insights, ratings and reviews, and market-specific events and demand forecasts to inform pricing strategies. Led by CEO and co-founder Adriaan Coppens, the company is used by more than 16,000 properties in 134 countries. Customers include Carlson Rezidor, Hilton, Accorhotels, Louvre, Choice, Best Western, Kimpton, SBE and NH Hotels. OTA Insight intends to use the funding to further build out its platform, with a particular focus on advancing machine learning and AI capabilities, and to expand its engineering, business development and marketing teams.

• Safely

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2022

  Safely operates an insurance and guest-screening platform for short-term home rentals that embeds commercial insurance directly into each reservation through partnerships with property management systems. The platform screens guests to reduce homeowner loss risk and allows property managers to submit claims in minutes; Safely says it pays nearly all claims within two business days. The company has accumulated more than two million nights of data and reports having protected over $100 billion in homeowner liability across those nights. Safely is based in Atlanta and positions itself as the leader in short-term rental protection. The company raised capital to accelerate go-to-market efforts and broaden its product reach. Management and investors have signaled plans to expand product offerings worldwide in partnership with reinsurance and Lloyd’s capacity providers.

• Wheelhouse

  Led · Equity · Apr 2022

  Wheelhouse spun out of Lyric to commercialize a pricing and revenue-management product originally built for Lyric’s hospitality operations. The company offers Wheelhouse Pro, a professional-grade pricing engine and suite of tools aimed at large portfolios, hosts and enterprise operators in the flex-rental market. Wheelhouse positions itself as a fintech platform for the $500 billion-plus flexible rental space and provides pricing, financing and underwriting capabilities. The team says its technology has been deployed for years and will be expanded via a planned rollout called “Wheelhouse Everywhere,” scaling from 42 countries to worldwide. Wheelhouse reported 100% overall growth over the prior nine months, 45% growth in the first quarter, and 500–600% growth in its B2B business over the same nine-month period; B2B is now the majority of its business. The company plans to use new capital to finalize inherited core technology, price mid-length stays, build underwriting, and invest in data-science to improve its ML pricing engine. PriceMethod develops predictive analytics and pricing software for vacation and short-term rentals on Airbnb, VRBO and HomeAway. Its software collects over 500 million data points and uses proprietary algorithms to recommend the best nightly price for each property. Hosts can connect their Airbnb, VRBO or HomeAway accounts to see ideal prices and push updates to their listings. The company offers optimized, automated and guaranteed pricing to help accommodations marketplaces and property owners operate more efficiently. Led by CEO Andrew Kitchell and COO Joe Fraiman, PriceMethod plans to use new funding to expand nationwide coverage. The article states the funding amount was not disclosed.

• Uplift

  Participated · Series C · Jan 2019

  Uplift provides point-of-sale financing for travel by partnering with airlines, travel sites and vacation-package sellers to let consumers pay for trips in monthly installments. The company works with partners including United Airlines, Southwest, American Airlines, Allegiant Travel Company and Kayak, and uses a bank partner to underwrite loans. Uplift says it can make booking easier and reduce upfront cost for consumers, giving an example of a $2,000 Disneyland trip financed as roughly $189 per month over a year. Launched less than two years ago, the company is on track to originate nearly $1 billion in loans in 2019 and for some partners represents about 20% of their business. Uplift positions itself as the only lending company focused entirely on travel, distinguishing the product and technology from general retail BNPL players. The company plans to use new funding to add partners, roll out new services and grow the business while continuing to reach consumers through its travel partners rather than building a consumer marketplace. UpLift provides a travel-industry-focused financing solution under the UpLift Pay Monthly product, enabling consumers to pay for travel in monthly installments integrated into the booking process. The solution is designed to increase suppliers' booking values, extend booking windows and boost ancillary sales. UpLift Pay Monthly is available on the vacation sites of American Airlines Vacations, United Airlines, JetBlue Airways and Southwest Airlines, and is coming soon to Vacation Express and Lufthansa German Airlines. The company is led by Founder and CEO Brian Barth and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. Financially, the company closed financings totaling $90M, which supports its product deployment and partner integrations. UpLift's core product is a Payment Marketing Platform that gives large online merchants real-time payment analytics to show cardholder attributes, expose revenue opportunities, increase conversion rates, and support performance monitoring. The platform is positioned to promote preferred payment types, boost usage of merchant co-branded cards, build brand loyalty, and propel channel shift across travel, e-commerce and nonprofit verticals. UpLift is easy to implement and compatible with all payment processors and works with merchants and third-party service providers. The company plans to use the new financing to expand platform applications for merchants and third-party providers, introduce UpLift into new verticals, and integrate additional data sources. Financially, UpLift completed an $8.2 million Series A financing led by IDG Ventures. The company was founded by Brian Barth and Stu Kelly, the co-founders of SideStep.

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