Nuitée

Nuitée

API-first hotel connectivity & distribution

Overview

Nuitée provides API-first travel technology infrastructure for hotel distribution. It connects hotel suppliers with demand partners through a single API, allowing them to build their own booking apps and monetize audiences. The platform delivers real-time inventory, a booking engine, analytics, and BI to optimize distribution and pricing for hotels, while letting demand-side partners embed travel bookings with preserved branding. Its goal is to scale globally, expand partnerships, and enable more businesses to embed and monetize hotel bookings via a unified API.

Significant Headcount Growth

About Nuitée

Simplify's Rating
Why Nuitée is rated
C+
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

Fintech

Financial Services

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$48M

Headquarters

Portlaoise, Ireland

Founded

2017

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What believers are saying

  • Stippl launched native booking on August 18, 2026, expanding Nuitée’s embedded distribution.
  • GrabStays launched May 2026, giving Nuitée access to Southeast Asia’s superapp traffic.
  • Nuitée’s product updates on May 4, 2026 added chatbot and price intelligence features.

What critics are saying

  • Grab and Attijariwafa control demand; either can replace Nuitée after launch.
  • Hotel chains and bedbanks can bypass Nuitée by pushing direct APIs and loyalty channels.
  • If Stippl or Grab internalize booking, Nuitée loses revenue and credibility fast.

What makes Nuitée unique

  • Nuitée sells hotel booking infrastructure, not a consumer travel brand, unlike Expedia.
  • GrabStays, Stippl, and Attijariwafa embedded Nuitée inside products launched in 2026.
  • Accel led Nuitée’s $48 million Series A in December 2024, validating the platform.

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Funding

Total Funding

$48M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

1 Rounds

Notable Investors:
Series A funding typically happens when a startup has a product and some customers, and now needs funding to scale. This money is usually used to grow the team, expand marketing, and improve the product. Venture capital firms are frequently the main investors here.
Series A Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

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Benefits

Remote Work Options

Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

43%

1 year growth

43%

2 year growth

46%
Nuitée
Aug 18th, 2026
Nuitée powers Native hotel booking Inside Stippl's trip planner.

Nuitée powers Native hotel booking Inside Stippl's trip planner. Stippl and Nuitée announced a new partnership that adds accommodation booking directly inside Stippl's trip planner. Powered by Nuitée's travel infrastructure, Stippl's 1.5 million users can now find and book their accommodation without leaving the app, with bookings dropping straight into the itinerary they've already built. Published August 18, 2026 Nuitée now powers accommodation booking inside Stippl's trip planner. Through a single integration with Nuitée's infrastructure, Stippl's 1.5 million users can search and book a place to stay without leaving the app, and each booking lands in the itinerary they already built. Nuitée provides the booking layer behind the integration: connectivity to hotel supply, live pricing and availability, payments, and post-booking servicing, all through one API. Stippl builds the planning experience, and Nuitée runs the booking underneath it. The gap Nuitée closes. Planning and booking have long lived in separate products. A traveler shapes a trip in one place, then gets pushed out to a booking site to reserve the stay, and the plan and the booking end up disconnected. That gap is one of the oldest points of friction in travel, and it has less to do with design than with cost. Booking is expensive to build. It means connecting to fragmented supplier feeds, keeping rates and availability current as they move through the day, handling payments, and servicing the reservation after the sale, including changes and cancellations. Most products that own the traveler's attention never take it on, because it sits far from what makes their experience good. Nuitée closes that gap by delivering booking as infrastructure. A product that already owns the traveler can add real hotel booking through Nuitée's API and keep it inside its own experience. Stippl is the latest to do it. What Nuitée provides. Nuitée runs the full booking stack so its partners don't have to. * Unified hotel connectivity One API integration gives access to global hotel inventory, with no fragmented supplier relationships to manage and no connectivity to maintain. Nuitée maps and cleans that supply into a single, consistent catalog. * Native in-app booking Search and booking run inside the partner's own product. No redirect to an outside site, no separate checkout. The traveler stays in the experience they came for, and the booking becomes part of it. * One place for the whole trip Inside Stippl, a booked hotel sits alongside the routes, stops, and activities, so the whole trip, planned and booked, lives in one place. Behind these three, Nuitée handles pricing, payment, and servicing, the parts of a booking a traveler never sees but always relies on. Infrastructure for the AI-native travel layer. Stippl is part of a wider shift Nuitée is built to support. Travel planning is moving toward AI-driven and conversational interfaces, where a traveler describes a trip in a few sentences and the product assembles it. The next step is agentic, where software plans and books on the traveler's behalf. These interfaces share a problem. The model that plans a trip has no connection to the systems that can price and reserve a room. Something has to sit between the intelligence and the inventory and turn a suggestion into a confirmed booking. That connective layer is infrastructure, and it is what Nuitée provides. Nuitée designed its API for both agents and applications, so a team building an AI planner, a conversational assistant, or an autonomous booking agent can reach millions of properties, with pricing, payments, and servicing handled underneath. Their engineering stays on the interface and the intelligence. Stippl shows the pattern in its simplest form. It kept building the planner, added an AI planner that drafts itineraries from a prompt, and reached booking through Nuitée rather than a build of its own. Rollout. The integration launched on web first, where Stippl's most active planners spend their time. Mobile follows later this quarter. Why it matters. Nuitée's role is to make booking a capability a partner can switch on instead of a system it has to build. Stippl extended its product into booking without becoming a booking company, and Nuitée supplied the layer that made it possible. That is the same layer a growing number of travel builders now rely on, from established planners to the AI-native products shaping travel's next interface. As more of travel planning happens through conversation and AI agents, the booking underneath it has to be programmable and reliable. That is the layer Nuitée is building. For teams building the next travel interface, Nuitée makes booking something you integrate, not something you build. Explore the API and start with a free sandbox, or talk to the team about what you're building.

Hotel Report
May 12th, 2026
Grab and Nuitée partner to launch app-based hotel booking service.

Grab and Nuitée partner to launch app-based hotel booking service. International news 2026-05-12 Leading superapp Grab has entered an exclusive collaboration with AI-based travel technology company Nuitée to introduce GrabStays, a hotel accommodation booking service available through the Grab app. The new feature will allow users in Southeast Asia to book hotel stays both in advance and at the last minute, directly within Grab. GrabStays will first roll out in Singapore later this month, with expansion to additional markets planned for this year. The initiative leverages Nuitée's travel infrastructure, giving Grab users direct access to a global hotel inventory via application programming interface (API) integration. Bookings made through GrabStays allow users to earn loyalty points, known as GrabCoins, which are integrated into the broader Grab rewards ecosystem. Additionally, GrabStays offers access to an AI chatbot that can be used to inquire about hotel amenities, locations and personal preferences. Salong Debbarma

RaveAboutIt
May 11th, 2026
Grab and Nuitée announce exclusive partnership to provide seamless travel accommodation booking within the Grab app.

Grab and Nuitée announce exclusive partnership to provide seamless travel accommodation booking within the Grab app. May 11, 2026 SINGAPORE and DUBLIN, May 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Southeast Asia's leading superapp, Grab, has partnered with Nuitée, an AI-first travel technology company, to launch GrabStays, a new travel accommodation booking service within the Grab app. Powered by Nuitée's global travel infrastructure, GrabStays is especially convenient for Grab users to make last-minute travel accommodation booking as it is integrated into the Grab superapp, thus making travel accommodation booking - both last-minute and planned - as easy as requesting a Grab ride. Benefits of GrabStays Under this exclusive partnership, Nuitée provides the underlying infrastructure supporting GrabStays, including the API-based integration that gives users access to Nuitée's global hotel inventory. With GrabStays, users are offered competitive same-day rates from Nuitee's global hotel inventory, and also benefit from earning loyalty points (GrabCoins) in the Grab's ecosystem. When using GrabStays, users can: * Discover and book travel accommodation easily within the Grab app. They do not need new accounts or payment setups, and can instead book directly through their existing Grab account. Users also earn GrabCoins and receive personalized Grab's promotions across mobility, food, and travel services. * Access GrabStays AI chatbot, to which they can ask questions about hotel features, location, as well as input their preferences. The chatbot provides detailed responses and helps users book the stay that best meet their needs. * Once a stay is booked, the Grab app will proactively surface other services that users need, such as ride bookings to and from the hotel, in just one tap away. GrabStays is one the services launched under Grab's Partner Apps programme, which makes products, services, and content from third-party partner brands directly available within the Grab app, complementing Grab's core suite of on-demand offerings. Through Partner Apps, Grab is expanding the number and types of services available to users, while giving businesses the opportunity to reach Grab's millions of monthly transacting users region-wide. GrabStays will launch first in Singapore later this month, followed by other markets in 2026. Paul-Eric Licari, Regional Head, Group Business Development at Grab, said: "Grab's promise to be an intelligent everyday guide for millions in Southeast Asia doesn't stop at one's borders. With 200 million passengers moving through Southeast Asian airports annually, GrabStays is how we make the regional travel experience more frictionless. By bridging the gap between mobility, payments, and accommodation, we are creating a more rewarding journey for consumers and a powerful engine for our partners to scale their reach within our ecosystem." Med Benmansour, Founder and CEO of Nuitée, said: "This partnership demonstrates how travel can be delivered as infrastructure rather than a standalone product. By enabling embedded, programmable distribution, we support partners like Grab in integrating travel seamlessly into their existing ecosystems." About Grab Grab is a leading superapp in Southeast Asia, operating across the deliveries, mobility and digital financial services sectors. Serving over 900 cities in eight Southeast Asian countries - Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - Grab enables millions of people everyday to order food or groceries, send packages, hail a ride or taxi, pay for online purchases or access services such as lending and insurance, all through a single app. Rave About It Pty Ltd operate supermarkets in Malaysia under Jaya Grocer and Everrise, which enables Rave About It Pty Ltd to bring the convenience of on-demand grocery delivery to more consumers in the country. As part of its financial services offerings, Rave About It Pty Ltd also provide digital banking services through GXS Bank in Singapore and GXBank in Malaysia. Grab was founded in 2012 with the mission to drive Southeast Asia forward by creating economic empowerment for everyone. Grab strives to serve a triple bottom line - Rave About It Pty Ltd aim to simultaneously deliver financial performance for its shareholders and have a positive social impact, which includes economic empowerment for millions of people in the region, while mitigating its environmental footprint. About Nuitée Nuitée is a travel technology company providing infrastructure APIs tailored for the travel sector, transforming how hotel connectivity and distribution are built and scaled. Its platform acts as a critical link between accommodation providers and demand partners, enabling seamless access to global inventory, real-time pricing, and booking capabilities. As a multi-product ecosystem, Nuitée empowers businesses to build their own booking experiences, monetize their audience, and create recurring revenue streams while retaining full control over their brand, pricing, and customer relationship. Founded in 2017, Nuitée operates with a globally distributed team supporting partners worldwide.

PR Newswire
May 11th, 2026
Grab partners with Nuitée to launch GrabStays accommodation booking service

Grab, Southeast Asia's leading superapp, has partnered with AI-first travel technology company Nuitée to launch GrabStays, a new accommodation booking service within the Grab app. The exclusive partnership gives users access to Nuitée's global hotel inventory through API integration. GrabStays allows users to book accommodation directly through their existing Grab accounts without additional setups, whilst earning GrabCoins and receiving personalised promotions. The service includes an AI chatbot for hotel queries and integrates with Grab's other services, such as ride bookings to hotels. Launching under Grab's Partner Apps programme, GrabStays will debut in Singapore this month before expanding to other markets in 2026. The service targets last-minute and planned bookings for the 200 million passengers travelling through Southeast Asian airports annually.

Nuitée
May 11th, 2026
Nuitée and Attijariwafa bank partner to launch hotel booking inside Attijari Mobile.

Nuitée and Attijariwafa bank partner to launch hotel booking inside Attijari Mobile. Attijariwafa bank has partnered with Nuitée to launch an integrated hotel booking experience inside the Attijari Mobile app, allowing customers to search, book, and pay for accommodation worldwide without leaving the banking application. Powered by Nuitée's travel infrastructure, the partnership brings embedded travel services directly into the bank's digital ecosystem. Published May 11, 2026 Attijariwafa bank, one of Africa's leading banking and financial groups serving millions of customers across retail and digital banking services, has partnered with Nuitée to launch a fully integrated hotel booking experience directly within the Attijari Mobile application. Through the partnership, customers can now search, book, and pay for accommodation worldwide without leaving the banking app, creating a seamless and native travel booking experience inside Attijari Mobile. Powered by Nuitée's travel infrastructure, users gain access to millions of accommodation options globally, including hotels, resorts, apartments, and alternative stays, with real-time availability and competitive pricing. The integration combines embedded travel technology with Attijariwafa bank's digital ecosystem, allowing customers to complete reservations securely using integrated payment flows directly connected to their banking experience. The partnership reflects the growing convergence between financial services and travel commerce, as banks increasingly expand into lifestyle and travel services to strengthen customer engagement and create additional value within their digital platforms. For Nuitée, the launch represents another milestone in enabling banks, fintechs, airlines, and super apps to embed travel experiences natively into their own products through API-first infrastructure and white-label solutions.

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