Passprt Trips, a travel startup, has raised $500,000 in its pre-seed funding round led by Aroa Venture Partners.
The funds raised will be used 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.
Founded in 2023 by Ujjwal Garg and Manoj Rai, Passprt Trips is a personal travel advisor platform that 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.
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.
Ujjwal Garg, co-founder, Passprt Trips, said, “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. With Passprt Trips, our motto is simple: Your Trip, Your Way.”
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.”
