Ventures Growth Program

Paathz is a Singapore-based hospitality hiring platform founded by EHL alumnus Ayush Soota. The company is building AI-native hiring infrastructure tailored specifically to the hospitality industry, replacing traditional CV-based recruitment with structured candidate profiles, hospitality-specific skills matching, and a proprietary Compatibility Engine.

BehaviorSMART is a Lausanne-based behavioral intelligence company that helps hospitality businesses, destinations, airports and tourism operators transform sustainability and operational objectives into measurable human behavioural change. Combining behavioral science, AI-supported decision intelligence and digital tools, the company aims to bridge the gap between sustainability ambitions and real-world implementation.

AiDA is an AI-powered hospitality receptionist and booking agent developed by AIM Solutions. Designed specifically for hotels, the platform manages phone calls, WhatsApp, email, and web chat interactions in 25 languages, helping properties automate guest communication, improve response times, and increase direct bookings. AiDA is not a chatbot, but as a revenue-generating AI employee built specifically for hospitality operations.

Drype is an Italian hospitality-tech and beverage startup redefining cocktail preparation through highly concentrated, ready-to-mix cocktail formulations. By removing unnecessary water, glass packaging and logistics weight from the supply chain, the company helps hospitality operators reduce costs, simplify service operations and significantly lower environmental impact. Its solution is designed for hotels, restaurants, catering companies, cruise operators and event providers seeking more efficient and sustainable beverage operations while maintaining cocktail quality and consistency.

ImmersiV XP is a hospitality-focused virtual reality training platform developed by Alison Magee-Barker through AJ Lakes Training Academy Ltd. The platform enables hospitality employees to practice realistic workplace scenarios through immersive simulations, helping improve confidence, decision-making, service consistency and leadership capabilities before encountering real guest situations. The solution is specifically designed for hotels and hospitality operators rather than for generic corporate training environments.

TribYou is an Italian travel-tech platform and licensed digital tour operator that transforms destinations, villages, communities, and experiences into bookable travel products. Operating through HQVillage SB S.r.l., a certified Italian Società Benefit, the company combines experiential tourism, corporate retreats, welfare travel, roots tourism, and destination management into a single platform designed for both travelers and organizations. Rather than competing directly with traditional online travel agencies, TribYou focuses on authentic places, local communities, and underserved destinations, creating new revenue streams for territories while offering curated experiences for travelers, remote workers, and businesses.

ProfessorMe is a UK-based AI learning platform transforming how educational content is created, delivered and accessed. Through its two flagship products, Professor Dynamo and BabbleMouth, the company enables institutions to generate multilingual, AI-enhanced learning experiences while providing personalised academic support at scale. Built with accessibility and inclusion at its core, the platform aims to make education more flexible, affordable and globally accessible. ProfessorMe combines AI-native content generation, multilingual delivery and tutoring support into an integrated learning ecosystem serving universities, enterprises, NGOs and individual learners worldwide.

Vocating.ai is a Swiss AI-powered career and education platform designed to help individuals identify, validate and monetize their unique strengths in an increasingly AI-driven labour market. The company positions itself as a “Human Agency Operating System”, helping students, professionals and entrepreneurs transform self-awareness into measurable market value through guided experimentation, feedback loops and AI-supported career development. Unlike traditional job platforms or psychometric assessments, Vocating.ai seeks to move users from self-discovery to action by generating real-world signals, market validation and professional opportunities rather than simply offering recommendations.

Serendipia is a hospitality and lifestyle platform that combines boutique hospitality, premium coliving, serviced residences, coworking, wellness and entrepreneurial communities into a single integrated ecosystem. Founded by Jean-Loïck Michaux, the company aims to create destinations where hospitality, innovation, wellbeing and entrepreneurship intersect, serving remote workers, founders, creatives and globally mobile professionals. Rather than operating as a traditional hospitality brand, Serendipia positions itself as a community-driven living and working platform, leveraging hospitality as the foundation for long-term relationships, collaboration and personal development

Starise is a Qatar-based AI-powered reputation management platform designed to help hospitality businesses convert guest satisfaction into authentic online reviews. By eliminating the friction of writing reviews, the platform enables guests to provide structured feedback in under 30 seconds, generating a review draft that they can voluntarily edit and publish. The solution is specifically designed to improve online visibility, reputation, and direct business performance while remaining compliant with review-platform policies. Unlike traditional reputation-management tools, Starise focuses on authenticity and compliance, avoiding incentivized reviews, filtering mechanisms, and automated review posting

Cocooners is an Italian Silver Economy platform dedicated to active adults aged 55+. The company combines community building, curated travel experiences, wellbeing services, content and lifestyle offerings, addressing one of Europe's fastest-growing demographic segments. Through a B2B2C model, Cocooners aims to become the leading platform for the "second half of life", creating value for both consumers and corporate partners.