Travel M&A Broker

Global Representation / Buy-Side & Sell-Side

Controlling Interest Acquisitions

Travel Companies, Travel Technology, Founder Ownerships

Sell-Side

$100M-$1B Acquisitions (Total Transactional Value)

NEW – Leisure Travel / B2C

Global Travel Membership Club

Acquire 50% of the company. Founder ownership sale. The world’s largest subscription-based travel membership company in the travel industry with 200,000+ active paying customers, growing 40%+ Y-o-Y.  (2) owners, No VC. (1) owner is selling a 50% ownership stake, strategic or financial acquirer. The company is highly profitable. B2C, Subscription Revenue Model. 2024E $288M NET Revenue/$45M EBITDA. 2025E $454M NET Revenue/$87M EBITDA.

$10M-$100M Acquisitions (Total Transactional Value)

NEW – Hotel OTA Partner / Affiliate

Hotel OTA

$300M+ USD in 2024E Gross Bookings, 2 Hotel OTA Brands with 3M lodging facilities in 195 countries globally with a focus on worldwide destinations. Distribution of POS is USA, Canada, Australia. EBITDA 2023 $7M E2024 $9.6M. Expect a continuation of a 20% YoY growth with current run rate. Private sale, (2) founders, no VC investors. Lean, remote team. Strategic or Financial Acquirers.

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

Leisure Travel / B2C

Australia Travel Company

Multi-day travel packages and hotel packages. One of Australia’s top travel deal destinations offering market leading savings on Australian hotels, domestic and international tours, business class flights and cruises. Target customer luxury travelers 60+, avg. booking $5,000. Expert online marketers generating 10:1 digital ROAS for 2 years, 210k email database. $10M Gross Revenue Run Rate. Profitable company. 2 owners, no VC, looking for a strategic acquirer.

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. 

Payments / Fintech / B2B / SaaS

Payment Orchestration Platform

Payments switch technology platform. Connect with multiple payment processors with a single API. Reduce transaction & development costs. Offer direct payment methods. Expand your business into new markets, attract a wider customer base, and boost revenue by providing your customers with their preferred payment methods globally. Acquirer is any travel seller that process credit cards, mobile payments, e-wallets, bank transfers for online reservations and bookings. Company is pre-revenue with (4) BETA customers, ready to commercialize. Founder needs to sell due to health reasons. Team of (4).

Corporate Retreats / Meetings & Events

Off-Sites, Retreats and In-Person Meetups

Fast growing European tech company. Est. $1.37M€ GMV 2023. Profitable business. Unique & proprietary technology. The first all-in-one toolkit designed exclusively for team travel. Research, plan, organize and book a company trip of any size. Corporates save 90% time and 20% in expenses vs. self organizing or booking through agencies. 4,000+ travelers, corporate customers include Hotjar, Automattic, Deloitte. 7 employees, founders own 80%, low monthly burn rate. Acquirers looking for access to the emerging team travel market. Competitors raising @ $50M+ valuations. Looking for a strategic acquirer.

$100K-$1M Acquisitions (Total Transactional Value)

NEW – B2B / API / Tickets / Events

Tickets, Sporting Events API Technology

Transactional API for tickets to global sports, music, theater, tours and attractions. Access the best events and experiences through an API integration with real time availability seat-maps.  2023 the company grew by 10x Y-o-Y. Est. 12x Y-o-Y growth 2024. Customers are financial and corporate rewards, travel retailers, platforms and super-apps. 2024 pipeline includes up to $15M in GMV. $60B worth of supply and a recently closed partnership agreement with the world’s leading entertainment group. Acquire the tech assets or the company.

NEW – 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

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).

USA Family-Owned Holding Company – Buying

Tourism Businesses

Acquires and operates small businesses for the long-term. Looking for tourism-related businesses that include, boat tours, tour operators, in-destination tours and activities, DMCs, and activity providers. EBITDA between USD $1M-$10M. Current demand for the product or service, strong local or regional market presence, consistent track record of profitability. US and Canada markets but for unique opportunities will look abroad. Company runs a unique in-house CEO training program to ensure management continuity to support an owner’s preferences for exit timing.

India Publicly Traded Company – Buying

B2B, B2C travel agency’s

Looking to acquire both small and large travel companies in India and globally. Like niche travel domains where can integrate the travel product onto our travel platform. International footprint or product that can be sold to milions of travelers and thousands of travel agents in India. Prefer profitable companies with no debt. 

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. 

PE Firm – Buying

B2B software and technology

Hospitality and travel companies with $5M+ ARR with high gross margins and good customer economics.

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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