€8m · Series A · Travel · Berlin, Germany
Berlin-based YGO has raised €8m in a Series A round led by Ventech, with participation from Sake Bosch, Caesar Capital and business angels. The company says the capital will expand sales and go-to-market, deepen its AI platform and convert its pipeline into signed accounts beyond the DACH region, spanning enterprise and mid-sized travel companies.
Making travel inventory usable by AI agents
YGO sits between airlines, hotels and tour operators, their existing booking systems, and the AI interfaces through which travellers increasingly search and plan. Its platform structures and enriches fragmented product data so software can understand what is available, then supports semantic search, recommendations, automated customer service and booking.
The infrastructure is designed to work in two places: inside a travel company's own website, app or sales channels, and through external assistants that may become a new starting point for a trip. That lets a supplier add AI-led discovery without rebuilding its reservation stack, while keeping the inventory, transaction and customer relationship connected to its existing operation.
This positioning makes data quality and integration the commercial mechanism. An assistant can recommend a hotel only if it has reliable context about availability, pricing and amenities, and it can complete a booking only if that recommendation connects to live supplier systems. YGO can become more valuable as it normalises more travel data and connects more channels, but each additional system also increases the cost of keeping content and availability accurate.
Early traction now has to become repeatable
Ventech says YGO already processes bookings for Condor, Bentour and GetAway Group. The investor announcement reports that recurring annual revenue reached seven figures within six months and that more than €15m of bookings have moved through the platform. It also cites a 90% reduction in manual operations and a 20% conversion lift for one airline client, plus 2.4 times higher average order value without added headcount for another. These are company and investor claims, not independent benchmarks.
Those outcomes point to two revenue levers for customers: lower operating effort and more direct conversion. They also explain why YGO shifted from its earlier consumer trip-planning product toward supplier infrastructure. Selling into an airline or tour operator takes longer than winning an individual traveller, but a successful integration can sit across many searches and bookings rather than one itinerary.
The Series A will test whether that model travels beyond early reference accounts. YGO needs to integrate across different reservation systems, commercial rules and product formats without turning every deployment into a bespoke project. If it can make those connections repeatable, it can sell the same orchestration layer across a fragmented industry; if not, integration work will grow alongside revenue and limit the software economics.
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Ventech investor announcement · YGO company newsroom · Tech Funding News · Tech.eu Funding Explorer
