New Delhi: TravClan, a global travel platform, today announced that it has raised $5 million in funding from Flipkart, August One and debt financing from Trifecta Capital. The company will use the capital to deepen its global supply network, expand its technology and AI capabilities, and strengthen destination operations across key international markets.
International travel in India is expanding beyond metros and upper-income consumers, with more first-time travellers from smaller cities entering the market at price points the existing travel ecosystem was not designed to serve. The challenge goes beyond demand alone. Making international holidays affordable requires better supply, while selling and fulfilling a complex trip still requires significant manual work. A travel business still has to piece together supply, pricing, itinerary creation, booking, payments, fulfilment, customer communication and on-ground support across multiple fragmented systems.
TravClan is building the supply, technology and fulfillment infrastructure required to make international travel affordable and reliable for the next 100 million travellers from India. Its common infrastructure layer allows travel businesses to sell and fulfil complex trips without rebuilding the entire stack themselves. TravClan directly contracts with hotels and activity partners and operates its own ground teams across Southeast Asia, the Middle East and India, giving it greater visibility over pricing, availability and service delivery.
Arun Bagaria, Co-founder and CEO, TravClan, said, “We started TravClan by solving this problem for independent travel agents. Over time, that required us to build much more than a booking platform, including direct supply relationships, technology and on-ground operations across the travel transaction. The next generation of travel software will not just help sellers search faster. It will increasingly execute work for them. Our ambition is to make TravClan the infrastructure that any travel business can build on instead of having to recreate the entire travel stack itself. This capital allows us to invest aggressively behind that opportunity.”
By combining its supply infrastructure with AI, TravClan enables travel agents to plan, price and rebuild complex international itineraries in minutes instead of hours, including when a customer changes dates, hotels or other parts of the trip. TravClan brings global inventory, pricing, booking, AI-powered workflows and destination fulfillment into one platform.
More than 15,000 travel agents across India use TravClan to book flights, hotels, activities and destination services. Roughly 40% of the company’s business now originates from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, reflecting the growing demand for international travel beyond India’s largest metros.
The new capital will be used to deepen direct supply relationships, strengthen TravClan’s AI and booking technology, expand destination operations and build the infrastructure required to serve larger travel businesses and platforms.
Sahil Kukreja, Vice President, Trifecta Capital, said, “TravClan has built a capital efficient model by owning supply rather than buying demand, and distributing through agents in underserved markets. We are pleased to support the company in this next phase of growth.”
Rajul Garg, Founder & Managing Partner, Leo Capital, said, “We backed them when owning supply looked like the slow way to build. It has compounded in two ways — better prices, and a trip that actually works when something goes wrong. In travel, whoever owns the supply owns the economics.”
With this round, TravClan has raised over $11 million to date from investors including Leo Capital, The Ventures, Hashed, August One, Flipkart and a group of prominent angel investors.
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