HyperGuest raises $25M to wire hotels into an AI-driven booking market
What's the deal? HyperGuest, an Israeli travel-tech company, has raised $25 million from AMIDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, the mid-market investment arm of Apax PartnersDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, in a late-stage round. The company connects tens of thousands of hotels with thousands of travel companies, technology providers, and AI agents. It has processed more than $1 billion in cumulative transaction volume.
What's the endgame? Founded in 2020, HyperGuest builds infrastructure that lets hotels and travel companies — booking sites, agencies, AI agents, and travel-tech firms — connect directly without a separate technical integration for each partnership. Chief executive officer Nir Yaron said the aim is a "holistic solution" offering room inventory and direct hotel contracts in a streamlined way.
Why now? Yaron frames AI as "a tectonic shift" for the sector. He argues that B2B travel booking remains fragmented, with players often forced through non-digital channels or intermediaries.
"It is a trillion-dollar market that is growing rapidly," Yaron said. He added that large language models can search and recommend on behalf of users but "require data input" — the structured hotel data HyperGuest was built to supply.
The company sees AI-based search shifting how travelers discover hotels. "Our users grew up with GoogleDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Booking," Yaron said, but "everything begins with a chat interface where the search actually takes place."
By the numbers: HyperGuest employs roughly 160 people across 21 countries, with about a quarter of its workforce — and its headquarters — in Israel. It also has offices in the US, Europe, Turkey, Brazil, and Argentina. Before this round, it had raised $28 million from investors including Lightspeed, Viola Ventures, the Altshuler fundDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and travel-tech fund THYARDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.
According to Yaron, Apax knew the sector and approached the company. "They wanted to invest even more than they initially planned," he said.
The signal: The round is a moderately sized raise — above the median for comparable deals — betting that AI agents will reroute how hotel bookings happen. If chat interfaces displace consumer-facing sites like Booking, the infrastructure feeding those models structured hotel data becomes the layer that matters.
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