Travel M&A Broker

Global Representation / Buy-Side & Sell-Side

Controlling Interest Acquisitions

Travel Companies, Travel Technology, Founder Ownerships

Sell-Side

$1M-$10M Acquisitions (Total Transactional Value)

NEW – Luxury Leisure Travel

Marketing Database

A direct to consumer marketing database of affluent travelers interested in luxury travel cruises, rail journeys, private jet travel, yacht vacations, private villa lodging, private tours and immersive cultural, culinary and nature experiences. Database includes 1M households that are actively engaged and 150,000+ households have purchased a travel product through our marketing campaigns. Our HNW households spend $12K-$40K annually on travel and have Net worths of $1M-$30M. Demo: 80% baby boomers ages 60-78, 20% GenX 40-59, College Educated, Married, Empty-Nester’s, Passport Holders, Luxury and Experiential Lifestyle Interests. Database provides a robust pipeline of unique, highly-qualified prospects and customers specifically for the experiential and luxury travel segment. Acquire a highly valuable marketing asset. Exclusive ownership for your travel group, travel brand, marketing agency. Drive revenue growth, previous 20x+ ROAS campaigns, lower prospect and customer acquisition costs.

Accommodation Booking Platform

Vacation Rentals

B2C Accommodation Booking Platform + B2B Lodging PMS for lodging Hosts. 4,000 accommodations, 8,000 experiences, 82 countries curated, cataloged and certified by 300 micro-influencers focused on promoting impact-based sustainable travel to rural areas outside large tourism based destinations. Unique full online and in-person training programs for micro-influencers. Revenue generating. 5 full-time employees. Company looking for a strategic acquihire including IP, technology assets. Company is located in North America. 

Company- SOLD

TripPlanner.ai generates personalized trip itineraries with AI and facilitates one-click booking to enhance the travel experience.  Combines sophisticated AI technology with user-friendly design to transform travel planning into a streamlined, enjoyable process. One of the most in demand technologies in travel. B2C website 2.5M users, 300k+ visitors per month, growing fast organically through UGC driven SEO. Acquhire, 2 engineers, revenue generating with a few B2B SaaS clients. Strategic acquirers. 

B2B / Hotel Bedbank / Wholesaler

Bedbank

Fast growing hotel wholesaler in the Middle East. Focus on selling hotel inventory in the UAE, Egypt and the Middle East market. Customers are DMCs, global bedbanks, wholesalers and travel resellers. Strong partnerships with major hotel brands. 200+ active customers. E2024 EBITDA $500K. A well respected brand and a track record of exceptional customer service. No VC investors. 1 owner. Strategic acquirers. Open to both a minority or majority acquistion. 

B2B, Bleisure Travel, Health & Wellness

Mobile App Travel Guide Business/Bleisure

Mobile app and an API for enterprises to license and integrate the guide and destination content into your platform. Helps business travelers to keep healthy habits while traveling, work from anywhere and stay productive. Proprietary data and content focused on 30 themes sourced from experts, the highest quality recommendations and experiences. Coverage includes 200+ cities, 7K+ unique experiences, 1.6K+ inspiring places, 1K culinary experiences, 1K wellness tips, 153 itineraries. Asset sale for the IP/technology and brand.

Company- SOLD

Adani Digital Labs acquires Trainman

$15M USD GMV run rate. $1M ARR. 12M+ registered users, 500K active monthly users, 70K transactions per month, growing 15% m-o-m. Authorized IRCTC ticket reseller. Highest rated travel app on Google Play. Most features compared to all other train apps in the market including a train waitlist prediction system driven by a proprietary AI-based algorithm used by millions every month. Trip assurance fintech product generating 8x booking revenue. Buyer is a global company looking for access to a large Indian customer base. Looking for a majority acquirer.

Company- SOLD

TWAI acquires GoQuo

B2B & B2C Airline.com Booking Engines (IBE). 3 active airline customers. Enables airlines to sell direct to travel agent and to consumers. Extensive features, for airlines of any size, scalable book and manage up to 500,000 segments per day. Next gen-architecture, cloud-based, multiple ancillaries, customer portal, 500+ payment options. Asset sale (IP, team, customers, contracts).

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Buy-Side

Looking to Acquire/Buy Companies

NEW- US Group & Events TMC – Buying

Transient TMC

Looking to acquire a US based, transient TMC with gross booking volume <$100M. Open to small acquisitions. Highly interested in sellers with proprietary technology and an OBT. Acquirer has been in business for 20+ years and works in the sports, entertainment and corporate events travel verticals. The acquisition will help diversify and expand the business.

NEW- Global Travel Company – Buying

Corporate Travel, Hotel Tech, Tour Op, Bedbank

Looking to make large global acquisitions, $10M-$250M total purchase price. All cash buyer. Controlling ownership interest only, 51%-100%. $3M+ EBITDA, generating $150M+ in annual transactional volume. Areas of interest include, Corporate travel, the top TMCs per country, with emerging tech. Data driven hotel tech and or travel solution providers for travel intermediaries. Tour operators and Bedbanks with robust market positions and growth potential.

U.S. Travel Company – Buying

OTAs, Consolidators, Travel Tech

Seeking to acquire B2C, Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) in leisure travel. B2B, Consolidators, Bedbanks, and Travel Tech SaaS companies with an EBITDA of $1M to $2M+. Open to making acquisitions globally. 

U.S. TMC – Buying

U.S. TMC (Travel Management Company)

Looking to acquire a U.S. TMC in Business and Corporate Travel. TTM Gross Booking Volume >$100M and profitable. Prefer TMCs located on the East Coast, South East but open to all areas in the USA.

Publicly Traded OTA – Buying

B2C OTAs & B2B Travel Technology

Looking to acquire both B2C and B2B travel companies in the USA & Europe. B2C: OTAs with GBV between $1B-$5B. B2B2C: White label providers for non-touristic companies. B2B Wholesalers (air consolidator or non-air wholesalers).

Global Fintech Company – Buying

B2B Fintech, Insuretech in Air/Hotel Verticals

Looking to acquire travel tech companies with products in fintech, insuretech, pricing, optimization, travel spend, data analytics, monitoring, auditing, APIs, microservices. Customers are travel resellers, OTAs, Travel Agency’s, Tour Operators, Mid-Office & Back Office IT/technology providers, OBTs, Bed banks, Wholesalers. Interested in Dynamic pricing, High marketing costs, Carbon Emissions, Consumer Experience/Loyalty, Insurance, Flights fare optimization, Mapping, Social Booking, Conversion Rates

US Travel Company – Buying

Travel Agency’s and Wholesalers

Looking to acquire travel agency’s in India, Canada, USA. India: INR 50 Crore+ gross bookings. Canada, USA: $20M+ gross bookings. ARC, BSP, IATA licenses. 

Transactions

M&A / Investment / Exits

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What We Do

M&A Brokerage facilitating mergers, acquisitions, business sales between buyers and sellers of privately-owned companies. We’ve not only helped sell other entrepreneurs companies but we’ve sold our own. We know exactly what it’s like because as former travel technology entrepreneurs we’ve been there ourselves.

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The Service

We offer three main M&A Broker services, 1) Company for Sale Listing 2) Active Representation both buy-side and sell-side and a 90-Day Accelerated Sale. We leverage TSI’s 500+ buyer network and a 6,000+ global travel industry network. Engage potential Buyers/Sellers for the Company through TSI’s global network. Learn more below.

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The Mission

It’s simple. Our Mission is to help you find the best Buyer/Seller for your company from our global network. We strive for win-wins to get deals executed.

Leisure Travel/B2C

For leisure travel companies we represent we’ll look to sell to larger travel companies, PE firms, and Family Offices in our global buyer network.

Prior to launching TSI and investing in travel startups we founded and operated CollegeSkiTrips.com an OTA in the ski travel vertical for 15-years. We sold the company in 2007, now owned by the largest ski tour operator in the USA.

Business Travel/B2B

For business travel companies we represent we’ll look to sell to corporate enterprises, PE firms and Family Offices.

TSI invested in multiple B2B and business travel startups from 2015-2018. We’ve had 2 exits and 2 mergers of B2B companies in our investment portfolio.

We are keen to understanding enterprise values and who are the best companies to buy.

M&A Broker Services

 Company Sale Listing

  • Full listing of your company sale opportunity. Includes a detailed business summary.

  • Non-transparent (no branding).

  • Share the info/financials you want.

  • Direct introductions to interested buyers via email introduction.

  • Buyers vetted prior to introduction.

  • Promotion and marketing of the company listing via monthly web/email blasts.

  • 6,000+ email travel trade buyer/investor database.

  • 500+ dedicated acquirers/buyers.

  • 300+ investors (angels, family offices, VCs).

  • Non-exclusive representation.

Sell-Side

Active & Accelerated Representation

  • Includes a Company Sale Listing

  • Personal active representation of the sale of your company.

  • Creation of a Teaser and a private Deal Room.

  • Building a leads list from my 500+ buyers.

  • Scheduling of calls with buyers.

  • Sitting in with you on Zoom calls with buyers.

  • Exclusive representation for a limited number of days.

  • 1:1 private reach out to buyers in my global network.

  • Assistance in negotiating the sale.

  • Facilitating the closing.

Buy-Side

In-House Representation

  • In-house Corporate Development.

  • Work closely with you 1:1 on a weekly basis leveraging our global network of buyers and sellers.

  • Source potential sellers that meet your buying criteria.

  • Reach out to targeted sellers  directly through phone and e-mail, exclusively representing your company.

  • Scheduling calls, and having direct meetings with buyers on your behalf.

  • Help prepare sales documents, teaser, deck, valuation models.

  • Build a private deal room.

  • Advising and negotiating with sellers.

  • Assisting in closing the deal.

Please contact Matt Zito for more in-depth details on the companies above or to book a call to discuss our buy-side and sell-side services. 

matt@travelstartups.co

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