Passprt Trips raises $500K in pre-seed round led by Aroa Venture Partners

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 its product, grow its traveller community, and expand operations to 20 destinations across APAC and the Middle East in the next three months.

Founded in 2023 by Ujjwal Garg and Manoj Rai, the firm offers a personal travel advisor platform that helps users discover, plan, and book holidays with real-time assistance.

Passprt Trips is building a vertical AI stack for travel using community-contributed data and a deeply integrated supply network.

The platform unifies the fragmented travel journey from inspiration and planning to bookings and on-trip support into a single interface, offering hyper-personalised and flexible travel solutions.

In February last year, Aroa Venture Partners launched a new fund with a target corpus of Rs 400 crore (about $50 million). Previously, Aroa had backed Unacademy, Urban Company, CRED, Pine Labs, Magicpin, MPL and Cars24.