Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Mindtrip

Mindtrip

Headquarters: San Francisco

CEO: Andy Moss

Website: Mindtrip

Founding date: 2023

Investment: $20 million

Mindtrip is an artificial intelligence-powered travel platform that makes it easy to organize any adventure, all in one place. By combining conversational AI with a proprietary knowledge base, Mindtrip delivers personalized and collaborative travel experiences that are delightful and actionable throughout the entire travel journey.

Founded in 2023 in Silicon Valley, Mindtrip was developed by serial entrepreneurs and avid travelers who have a deep understanding of new technologies and a proven track record of bringing game-changing products to market. 

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Founders include CEO Andy Moss, engineers Trey Matteson, Garrick Toubassi, Vincent Lo, Manish Dubey, Prakoon Chen, Rob Davis, Katherine Wang, Jesse Castillo, Jesse Hart and design leaders Elsa Kawai and Mika Kozma

Strategic goals for 2025

At Mindtrip, our mission is to transform the entire travel journey for consumers through the power of AI. Since our public launch in May 2024, we've seen exponential growth in our user base and rolled out new features that are personalized, collaborative and actionable.

Our platform empowers people to discover, plan and book their next adventure — whether it's across the globe or close to home. Looking ahead to 2025, we’re focused on expanding our user base through several key initiatives. We'll be launching a mobile app to enhance the on-trip experience and expanding our Creator Program to bring even more value to our users. In addition, we will fully launch our Mindtrip for Business product at the Phocuswright event this November, currently being piloted with six destination management organizations and look to extend into other areas of the travel ecosystem. 

Lessons learned since founding

The consumer journey is highly fragmented: While we anticipated this, we now have a deeper understanding of the complex ecosystem and the numerous companies involved.

Generative AI enables us to unify these experiences in one place, and we've learned a great deal from industry partners as we build this all-in-one solution. A vast amount of travel content is not actionable: We knew there was plenty of travel inspiration online, but were surprised by how much of it lacked direct paths to booking. This realization led to our Start Anywhere solution, which allows consumers to upload any inspirational content to the Mindtrip platform as the starting point for planning their trips. 

Following our consumer launch, we saw strong demand from DMOs, resorts, media companies and travel advisors seeking AI-powered solutions to complement their existing businesses. They are eager to future-proof their offerings and leverage new technologies to deliver more value to travelers.