AI-Powered Travel Startup Passprt Trips Expands Operations After $500K Raise

Travel startup Passprt Trips has raised $500K in a pre-seed funding round led by Aroa Venture Partners. The proceeds will be used to enhance the company’s product, grow its traveler community, and expand operations 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 offers a personal travel advisor platform that helps users discover, plan, and book holidays with real-time assistance. The startup is building a vertical AI stack for travel, leveraging community-contributed data and a deeply integrated supply network. Its platform unifies the fragmented travel journey—from inspiration and planning to bookings and on-trip support—into a single interface, offering hyper-personalized and flexible travel solutions. Aroa Venture Partners, which led this round, had launched a new fund in February last year with a target corpus of Rs 400 crore (~$50 million). The firm has previously backed companies such as Unacademy, Urban Company, CRED, Pine Labs, Magicpin, MPL, and Cars24. Key Highlights: * Funding Raised: $500K in pre-seed round led by Aroa Venture Partners. * Purpose of Funding: Product enhancement, community growth, and expansion to 20 destinations in APAC and Middle East. * Founders: Ujjwal Garg and Manoj Rai, founded in 2023. * Platform: AI-powered personal travel advisor for planning, booking, and on-trip assistance. * Technology: Vertical AI stack using community data and integrated supply network. * Investor Background: Aroa Venture Partners’ fund corpus ~Rs 400 crore; prior investments in Unacademy, Urban Company, CRED, and more.