Tryp.com, an AI travel-planning platform founded in the Danish city of Odense by six engineering students — four Portuguese and two Danish — has raised €1.9 million in a round led by Lisbon-based Point Capital Partners, with Iberis Capital and several private investors taking part. The round, reported by Jornal Económico on 1 October, takes the company’s total funding since its creation to €5.9 million. Tryp.com is now headquartered in Copenhagen and keeps a licensed travel agency in Lisbon.
Denmark’s business register dates the company to July 2021. The operating company, Tryp.com ApS (CVR 42533165), was registered on 8 July 2021 at Drewsensvej 3 in Odense under tour-operator activities; its parent, Tryp.com Holding ApS (CVR 42527610), four days earlier. The register lists six individual owners of the holding company, among them co-founder and chief executive André Rangel de Sousa.
The engine behind Wizz Holidays
The company’s profile rose this summer when Wizz Air launched Wizz Holidays, a package-holiday platform that went live in early July and lets customers bundle flights, accommodation and transfers, including multi-city and multimodal trips. According to Tryp.com, its technology builds the multi-destination itineraries for the airline’s customers, while the packages themselves are sold and operated by the company’s own travel agency, licensed in Portugal.
“Airlines have the flights and the customers. What they lack is technology that turns a ticket into a complete trip, built in seconds. That is what we do,” Rangel de Sousa said, in comments carried in Portuguese. “Wizz Holidays shows our engine working at the scale of an airline, and this round lets us take it to more partners.” The new money is earmarked for licensing the technology to other travel brands, launching a tours-and-experiences line and accelerating entry into Asian and American markets.
The numbers, as the company reports them
The operating figures are the company’s own and have not been independently verified. Tryp.com says the platform has passed 10 million users since launch and now has about one million a month; that monthly revenue exceeded €1.2 million in September, more than its turnover for the whole of 2024; and that it sells around 14,000 tickets a month — the equivalent, it says, of filling 18 Airbus A320s a week. Since the start of 2026 sales have quadrupled and revenue has more than tripled. The system tracks more than 80 million transport fares and 28 million accommodation options, combining flights, trains, buses, ferries and hotels into itineraries that start from a traveller’s budget and dates rather than a destination; the company says about half of all bookings come from users who never run a search.
Lisbon money, Danish public co-investors
Both lead investors are Portuguese. Point Capital Partners manages more than €380 million and invests from seed to Series B; its investment manager Pedro Ceia said Tryp.com occupies “a unique niche” between travel search and booking. Iberis Capital led the previous round, €3.1 million closed in January 2025, which also brought in media-for-equity backing from broadcasters ITV and RTLZWEI; partner João Henriques pointed to the growth in users since then and to the Wizz Air partnership. The cap table also includes two Danish public investors — Innovation Fund Denmark and EIFO, the state investment fund formerly known as Vækstfonden — and Denmark’s register lists ITV AdVentures, the British broadcaster’s investment arm, as a registered owner of the operating company.
Why this matters for the corridor
Most Portugal-to-Nordics stories on these pages are about Portuguese companies selling into the region: wine into the monopolies, steel towers to Energinet, contractors registering branches in Norway. Tryp.com is a different route. Portuguese engineers who studied in Denmark built the company inside the Danish system — a Danish registration, Danish public co-investors — then went back to Lisbon for growth capital, with two Portuguese funds leading consecutive rounds, and kept the regulated travel-agency operation in Portugal. The size of this round is modest, and the growth figures are self-reported. But the structure — Nordic base, Portuguese capital, a licence and team on both ends — is one that other Portuguese founders in Denmark and Sweden can copy.
Sources: Jornal Económico (1 October 2026), including statements by André Rangel de Sousa, Pedro Ceia and João Henriques; Danish Central Business Register (CVR) entries for Tryp.com ApS and Tryp.com Holding ApS; Cyprus Mail (2 July 2026) and Travel Weekly on the launch of Wizz Holidays; Dealroom, Forbes Portugal and Diário de Notícias coverage of the January 2025 €3.1 million round.