Mews Raises $75M: Hotel Management Platform Growth & AI Focus
Mews, a hotel management SaaS platform, secures $75M led by Tiger Global, fueling growth and AI innovation in the travel sector.
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Mews Raises $75M: Hotel Management Platform Growth & AI Focus
Despite clouds of uncertainty looming over the economy and geopolitics, people still want to travel. To meet that demand, Mews, an Amsterdam-founded ‘unicorn’ building an SaaS platform for hotel management, has raised a fresh $75 million. Image Credits:Getty Images The funding is coming at a crossroads in the travel industry. From one direction, the positive signals: Analysts at Oxford Economics forecast that the industry will grow by 12% this year, working out to 1.75 billion “arrivals.” And that is equating to money getting invested into travel startups. TravelPerk in January raised $200 million at a $2.7 billion valuation; Hostaway raised $365 million in December 2024; and Tourlane in Germany raised $26 million from Sequoia in November 2024. Prosus also scooped up Latin American travel player Despegar for $1.7 billion. But it’s not all rosy. It’s unclear how tariffs and other economic manoeuvres will impact people’s travel budgets, not to mention the uncertainty over geopolitics. I…
