News & Insights
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News & Insights
“Nothing is random” – Travel and Hospitality tech VC forays into big data and predictive analytics
SINGAPORE, 1 AUG 2022 – Velocity Ventures today announced an investment in ZYTLYN, a Switzerland-based startup that uses big data and machine...
How to Capitalise on the Great Reopening of Travel and Hospitality
By Renny Chong, Investor Relations Director Dear Friends of Velocity, While many eager travel bugs are busy making long-awaited travel plans, did...
When will we see a day in the future where the same restaurant will have different menu prices on different days based on demand?
Let’s talk dynamic pricing: over the years, we have grown accustomed to price surges – from Uber rides on a rainy day or a more expensive flight during the school holiday season, but what about restaurants? What about the opposite – when we dine at a popular restaurant on a weekday afternoon versus on a weekend evening?
Travel and hospitality-focused fund bets on the rise of travel with three new investments into the travel and F&B tech space
SINGAPORE, 12 DEC 2021 - Velocity Ventures, Southeast Asia’s leading venture capital firm focused on technology innovations in travel and...
Southeast Asia-focused travel and hospitality VC supports growth of travel tech through launch of new market intelligence resource
Tri-weekly newsflash provides insights on the impacts and opportunities of current events for the travel and hospitality industry SINGAPORE, 30 Nov...
Who says you can’t value start-ups? How to set up a Financial Forecasting Model.
Start-ups don’t have past data that can be used for valuations, so we have to rely entirely on what’s going to happen in the future when valuing...
Events
Mentoring
Velocity Connect: July Edition
Calling all hospitality and travel start-up founders in Southeast Asia!
Our next Velocity Connect session will be back on 13 July, 1.30pm SGT. If you have any burning questions or would like to gather feedback on your pitch, we’re here to listen and help.
Apply now to speak to one of Velocity’s team members in a 20-min virtual mentoring session.
Past Events
Founders Unplugged: Tourego
In this episode, we speak to Tie Wee from Tourego, a revolutionary new mobile app that gets you your tourist refund in a paperless, efficient and secure manner. https://youtu.be/h8GcP6Z6Zpg
Founders Unplugged: Lumitics
In this episode, we speak to Rayner Loi from Lumitics, a food waste technology company that strives to empower commercial kitchens with big data analytics and business intelligence to reduce their food waste, cost, and environmental footprint....
International Travel in 2021 – What Does a Restart Look Like
Together with our expert panel of advisors made out of industry experts across the various verticals of travel and hospitality, join us as they unpack some of the expected impacts and potential changes to the industry with the advancement of the COVID-19 vaccine, and...
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