TLDR: Passprt Trips, an AI-powered personal travel advisor, has secured $500K in pre-seed funding led by Aroa Venture Partners to enhance its hyper-personalized trip planning platform and expand to 20 destinations across APAC and the Middle East.
Passprt Trips, a new-age Personal Travel Advisor, has raised $500K in its pre-seed round led by Aroa Venture Partners. Founded in 2023 by Ujjwal Garg and Manoj Rai, Passprt Trips helps users plan and book their trips, right from inspiration and discovery to flexible planning, seamless bookings, and on-trip assistance – all in one place.
Unlike traditional OTAs & offline travel agents that focus only on bookings, Passprt Trips reimagines the entire travel journey. It brings together all the scattered steps today’s travellers take – from scrolling Instagram for inspiration to using Google Maps, asking ChatGPT, watching YouTube, and comparing prices – into one intelligent, seamless interface that simplifies it all.
The company is building a vertical LLM stack for travel, powered by authentic, community-contributed data and a deeply integrated supply network. This includes everything from offbeat stays and niche experiences to taxi rentals and curated activities. This allows Passprt Trips to offer a hyper-personalised experience to each traveller and provide accurate, practical support in planning and booking their trips.
“The holiday booking experience is broken. Most people still book through offline agents. What they get is pre-packaged itineraries with limited choice and no flexibility. The agents sell fear of the unknown at the destination. Incumbent OTAs have failed to solve this the right way. Today’s travellers want hyper-personalised trips that are social media-worthy with flexibility in planning and booking,” said co-founder Ujjwal Garg. “With Passprt Trips, our motto is simple: Your Trip, Your Way.”
Commenting on the investment, Gaurav Gulati, Founder & Managing Partner at Aroa Venture Partners, said, “The team at Passprt Trips is reimagining travel from the ground up. With a native AI-first architecture, they’re not just building a better booking engine – they’re creating intuitive, hyper-personalised journeys that cater to the new-age traveller’s desire for spontaneity, context, and connection. This is travel tech for the next decade, not the last. We are excited about partnering with Ujjwal and Manoj on this disruptive journey.”
Passprt Trips will use the capital to deepen product capabilities, expand its community of travellers, and roll out to 20 destinations across APAC and the Middle East over the next three months. The announcement also marks a key moment for the brand as it builds digital visibility, strengthens hiring, and signals its vision for transforming the $100B+ offline holiday market.
