Emerging Trends: Manpower crisis for the hospitality and tourism industries will drive growth in tech & digitalisation

by Team Velocity Ventures | Sep 19, 2022 | News, Travel & Hospitality

COVID-19 RECOVERY – EMERGING TRENDS As we evaluate what are the key challenges facing the tourism and hospitality industries, one major issue pops up – and that is the scarcity of manpower across all sectors including hotels, restaurants, airlines and...

“Nothing is random” – Travel and Hospitality tech VC forays into big data and predictive analytics

by Team Velocity Ventures | Aug 4, 2022 | News, Press Release

SINGAPORE, 1 AUG 2022 – Velocity Ventures today announced an investment in ZYTLYN, a Switzerland-based startup that uses big data and machine learning to give companies the ability to optimise critical decision-making through predictive insights for travel demand. Its...

Travel and hospitality-focused fund bets on the rise of travel with three new investments into the travel and F&B tech space

by Team Velocity Ventures | Dec 13, 2021 | News, Press Release

SINGAPORE, 12 DEC 2021 – Velocity Ventures, Southeast Asia’s leading venture capital firm focused on technology innovations in travel and hospitality, announced three new investments in travel and food and beverage (F&B) tech early-stage startups: Hong-kong...

Southeast Asia-focused travel and hospitality VC supports growth of travel tech through launch of new market intelligence resource

by Team Velocity Ventures | Dec 7, 2021 | News, Press Release

Tri-weekly newsflash provides insights on the impacts and opportunities of current events for the travel and hospitality industry SINGAPORE, 30 Nov 2021 – Velocity Ventures, Southeast Asia’s leading travel and hospitality venture capital, has partnered with Pear...

Velocity Ventures announce first close of USD20 million Travel and Hospitality Fund

by Team Velocity Ventures | Jun 30, 2021 | News, Press Release

Accelerating digitalisation of Hospitality & Travel businesses across Southeast Asia Singapore, 30 June 2021 – Velocity Ventures, a travel & hospitality-focused venture capital firm based in Singapore, announces the initial closing of the first-ever venture...

Fixing food waste problem means less hungry people and a great economy

by Team Velocity Ventures | Jun 3, 2021 | News, Tech & Venture

by Sainul Abudheen K, e27.co In 2019, Singapore generated 744M kg of food waste, which is equivalent to 2 bowls of rice per person/day, or around 51K double-decker buses! Food waste is a colossal problem. It damages global economic and environmental resources....

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