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Omio is a travel search engine that connects travelers with a wide range of transportation options, including trains, buses, flights, and ferries, primarily in the UK and Europe. It partners with over 800 travel providers to help users compare routes, durations, and prices, then book the preferred option through the platform. The product works by aggregating schedules and fares from multiple providers, showing results based on origin, destination, and travel dates, and enabling seamless booking even across languages or currencies. Revenue comes from commissions earned from providers for each booking made through Omio. The platform aims to make travel planning easy and affordable by presenting comprehensive options and streamlining the booking process, helping travelers find the fastest or most cost-effective journeys across Europe.
About Omio
Industries
Data & Analytics
Automotive & Transportation
Consumer Software
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$606M
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Founded
2012
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What believers are saying
- Granite-Integral invested $10 million on July 22, 2026 for Japan and Southeast Asia.
- Greyhound Australia joined on August 13, 2026, adding 180 nationwide bus destinations.
- Omio’s May 2026 TUI deal and April 2026 ChatGPT launch expand distribution fast.
What critics are saying
- Rail Europe still needs CSE approval, delaying integration and distracting management through 2026.
- Google Travel, Booking.com, Expedia, and Trainline compress Omio’s traffic and pricing power.
- If partners route inventory direct, Omio becomes a thin commission layer with shrinking relevance.
What makes Omio unique
- Omio combines trains, buses, flights, and ferries across 48 countries.
- Omio’s B2B APIs power TUI and Uber with white-label ground transport.
- Omio’s April 2026 ChatGPT app embeds booking inside conversational search.
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↑ 0%Omio expands global ground transport network with Greyhound Australia partnership. EQS-News: Omio / Key word(s): Agreement/Contract Omio expands global ground transport network with Greyhound Australia partnership 13.08.2026 / 11:10 CET/CEST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. New supply partnership brings Greyhound Australia's bus network to Omio, improving access to city, coastal and regional connections BERLIN, Aug. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Omio, the leading global travel booking platform for multimodal transport, today announced a new supply partnership with Greyhound Australia, one of the country's most established long-distance bus operators. Through the partnership, travellers can search and book Greyhound Australia services through Omio, gaining access to a bus network spanning 180 destinations nationwide. The integration makes it easier to plan journeys across major cities, coastal routes and regional destinations. The partnership strengthens access to Australian city, coastal and regional routes, including Melbourne-Sydney, Sydney-Canberra and Gold Coast-Brisbane, alongside popular coastal connections such as Brisbane-Byron Bay, Noosa-Brisbane, Cairns-Airlie Beach and Townsville-Airlie Beach. The partnership marks Australia as Omio's 48th country. With more than 3,000 transport partners globally and over 100,000 travellers moving with Omio every day, the integration supports Omio's ambition to operate in more than 70 countries by 2028. "By bringing Greyhound Australia's bus network onto Omio, we are making it easier for travellers to search, compare and book journeys across cities, coastlines and regional destinations," said Facundo Viguie Aleman, CMO at Omio. "Partnering with Omio allows us to bring Greyhound Australia's network to a broader global audience and support travellers who want to explore more of the country," said Renata Berglas, Head of Sales at Greyhound Australia. About Omio Since its foundation in 2013, the Omio Group has helped customers discover new ways of travelling. Through its interconnected platforms, Omio and Rome2Rio, Omio is one of the world's leading multimodal travel platforms for searching, comparing and booking transport. Omio B2B Partnership services OTAs and mobility providers with bespoke business solutions. Omio supports travellers across Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Brazil and Australia via trains, buses, flights and ferries. Omio sells more than 100,000 tickets daily, employs over 430 staff from more than 50 countries and maintains offices in Berlin, Prague, Melbourne, Bangalore and Singapore. The Omio Group offers its customers journeys that move them. omio.com About Greyhound Australia Greyhound Australia is the country's only national coach network, connecting rural, regional, and metropolitan communities across Australia. Founded in Toowoomba in 1928 and formed from the merger of pioneering brands including Pioneer, Greyhound and McCafferty's, the company officially became Greyhound Australia in 2004. With more than 100 years of experience, Greyhound Australia's network now covers almost 200 stops across most of the Australian mainland. greyhound.com.au 13.08.2026 CET/CEST Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by EQS News - a service of EQS Group. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. The EQS Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. View original content: EQS News 2382526 13.08.2026 CET/CEST
Can't say it? Why travellers avoid some destinations. A difficult place name may be doing more damage to destination discovery than travel marketers realise. New UK research commissioned by multimodal booking platform Omio suggests that 22% of British adults are less likely to visit a destination if they are unsure how to pronounce it, while 30% say they have avoided booking a destination they cannot confidently say aloud. Spelling creates another hurdle: unfamiliar letter combinations can make destinations harder to type, search for and ultimately discover. That puts places such as Ljubljana (lyoo-BLYAH-nah), Reykjavik (RAKE-yah-vik) and Montjuïc (mon-zhwEEK) in an unusual position. The issue is not transport availability, price or even lack of inspiration. Sometimes the first piece of friction arrives before a traveller has opened a booking page. When a name becomes travel friction. Omio's findings point strongly toward social anxiety. Thirty percent of respondents worry that mispronouncing a place could sound rude, 26% fear embarrassment and 17% worry about being judged. Another 13% associate difficult-to-pronounce destinations with trips that may be more complicated or stressful to navigate. That matters commercially as well as culturally. Twenty-six percent say they are less likely to talk to friends and family about a place they cannot pronounce, while 20% are more likely to stick with destinations whose names already feel familiar. For tourism boards and travel platforms trying to move travellers beyond Paris, Rome and Barcelona, that is a surprisingly basic discovery problem. The encouraging part is that travellers do not appear content to remain inside that comfort zone. Omio says 85% want to improve their pronunciation before travelling. Yet only 13% turn to travel professionals for help. Instead, 42% use AI tools or search engines and 19% look to social platforms such as TikTok. Omio turns pronunciation into a discovery tool. Omio has responded with an online pronunciation guide created with polyglot and language expert Alex Rawlings. The guide breaks down destination names and offers practical advice on stress, silent letters and common pronunciation patterns. Omio's wider public guide also recommends technology, including AI and Google Translate, as a way to hear unfamiliar sounds before travelling. Rawlings says: "Pronunciation can feel like a barrier, but it doesn't need to be perfect. The key is to focus on the sounds rather than trying to replicate every letter exactly. Breaking words into smaller parts and practising them slowly can make a big difference. Even a small effort is often appreciated by locals and can help travellers feel far more confident when exploring a new destination". Facundo Viguie Aleman, CMO at Omio, added: "We believe travel should feel exciting and accessible, not intimidating. With so many incredible destinations reachable by train, bus, ferry or plane, we want to give people the confidence to explore beyond the obvious. We know that even small barriers, like unfamiliar place names, can make travel feel daunting, so pairing up with Alex to produce the guide will help keen travellers to discover new destinations with ease." It is a clever piece of travel utility because it sits unusually early in the customer journey. Omio is not simply helping someone compare a train with a flight; it is trying to remove hesitation at the moment a destination first enters consideration. There are limits. The guide is most useful when confidence is the problem. Travellers needing broader translation, real-time language help or pronunciation support wherever they happen to be will probably still rely on general-purpose translation, navigation and AI tools. There is also one notable weakness in the research presentation: Omio's UK announcement does not disclose the survey sample size or methodology, which would make its headline percentages easier to assess independently. Travel platforms are fighting smaller frictions. Omio's move fits a much bigger travel-tech shift: platforms increasingly compete not only on inventory and price, but on how much uncertainty they can remove before booking. Booking.com has expanded AI features that let travellers search in natural language, ask property-specific questions and use an AI Trip Planner. Its research found that 41% of travellers were interested in personalised itineraries generated with AI. Expedia Group is pushing in the same direction. On July 31, 2026, it acquired AI-native trip-planning platform Layla, explicitly strengthening the journey from inspiration and discovery through planning and booking. Pronunciation itself is also becoming a technology issue. In July 2026, Google Maps introduced improved pronunciation of Māori place names in New Zealand following collaboration with the Māori Language Commission, using advances in AI text-to-speech technology. More on Alertify Follow the latest travel news Destination trends, airlines, hotels, travel technology and the developments reshaping how people plan, book and experience travel. The real opportunity is confidence, not pronunciation. Omio's pronunciation guide will not change how most people book travel, and it is not a substitute for a serious language tool. But that is almost beside the point. The interesting signal is that travel platforms are moving upstream. Competitive advantage increasingly starts with removing tiny moments of doubt before someone has even chosen a destination: Can I say it? Can I find it? Will I understand how to get around? Booking.com is attacking search complexity. Expedia is investing heavily in conversational trip planning. Google is improving how destinations sound once travellers are on the road. Omio is targeting an even earlier psychological barrier. For destinations outside the usual tourist shortlist, that matters. Discovery is no longer only about being visible in search results. It is about being understandable, pronounceable and easy enough to imagine visiting. And that may be the more important lesson from Omio's research: the next battle in travel tech will not necessarily be won by adding another booking feature. Sometimes growth comes from identifying the tiny piece of friction everybody else assumed was too small to matter.
Omio raises €8.7M strategic investment. Omio raises €8.7M in strategic investment led by Granite-Integral to accelerate its travel booking platform expansion across Japan and Southeast Asia. Updated July 28, 2026 Omio, the Berlin-based multimodal travel booking platform, has announced a €8.7 million strategic investment to accelerate its expansion in Japan and strengthen its presence across Southeast Asia. The company provides a digital platform that simplifies travel planning by allowing users to search, compare, and book journeys across rail, air, bus, and ferry operators. Investors. Granite-Integral, a joint venture between Granite Asia and Integral Corporation, led the investment round. Omio use of funds. Omio intends to use the capital to deepen its transport network across Japan and Southeast Asia, strengthen local partnerships, refine its customer offering, and grow its regional teams in Japan and its AI-focused technology hub in Singapore. About Omio. Founded in 2013 by Naren Shaam, Omio Group is a global innovator in transportation technology. The platform connects travellers, transport operators, and travel agents to facilitate complex multimodal journeys, processing over 100,000 ticket sales daily. Funding details. Company: Omio Raised: €8.7M Round: Other Funding Date: July 2026 Lead Investor: Granite-Integral Company Website: https://www.omio.com Software Category: TravelTech Source: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/07/omio-raises-e8-7-million-strategic-investment-for-asian-expansion/ Updated July 28, 2026
Omio welcomes $10m investment from Granite-Integral to fuel expansion in Japan and Southeast Asia. July 22, 2026 The strategic partnership will accelerate Omio's regional growth as travellers increasingly choose destinations based on transportation access. Omio, the world's leading multimodal travel booking platform, has announced a $10m strategic investment from Granite-Integral to accelerate its expansion in Japan and strengthen its presence across Southeast Asia. The investment comes as Japan and Southeast Asia continue to attract growing numbers of international travellers. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing travel region globally over the next five years, while nearly half of travellers are planning journeys that combine multiple modes of transport. Omio is expanding its transport network across the region to make those journeys simpler to search, compare, and book. Granite-Integral brings deep expertise across Asia's travel and technology sectors, alongside strong relationships across the region's investment ecosystem. The partnership will help Omio deepen its transport network across Japan and Southeast Asia, strengthen local partnerships, refine its customer offering, and grow its regional teams in Japan and in its AI-focused technology hub in Singapore. The investment builds upon a period of strong momentum for Omio in Japan, following its high profile launch earlier this year. Omio is already seeing strong demand from international travellers booking journeys along the popular Golden Route, in addition to more remote destinations, including mountain regions, sacred routes, and coastal communities. Omio continues to expand its Japanese transport network through partnerships with operators, including Japan Railways and Willer Express. Omio offers bookable transport options across 48 countries and serves more than one billion users annually, with one person travelling with Omio every second. The investment marks another milestone in Omio's long-term vision to build the intelligence powering the next era of global mobility. Omio intends to expand into more than 70 markets worldwide by 2028, with Japan and Southeast Asia representing key priorities within its international growth strategy. Naren Shaam, Founder and CEO of Omio, said: "Japan is one of the most exciting travel markets in the world today. Millions of travellers visit every year, but planning journeys across different operators and transport modes can still be complex, particularly beyond the major cities. With Granite-Integral's unparalleled regional expertise, we intend to accelerate a new era of connected travel in Japan, expand our presence across Southeast Asia and continue building a more connected future for travel across Asia." CK Choun, Co-Head of Granite-Integral said: "Japan and South East Asia represent some of the most important long-term opportunities in global travel, with growing demand for more connected journeys across the region. Omio has built a highly differentiated multimodal platform with the technology and transport network needed to simplify increasingly fragmented travel experiences. We're excited to support the company as it continues expanding across Asia." About Omio Omio powers simpler, smarter and more responsible journeys. Thanks to its two interconnected platforms, Omio and Rome2Rio, Omio is the world's leading multimodal travel platform for searching, comparing, and booking. Omio B2B Partnership services OTAs and mobility providers with bespoke business solutions. Omio sells more than 100,000 tickets daily, employs over 470 staff members from more than 50 countries, and maintains offices in Berlin, Singapore, Prague, Melbourne and Bangalore. The Omio Group offers its customers journeys that move them. omio.com About Granite-Integral Granite-Integral is a joint venture between Granite Asia and Integral Corporation (TSE:5842), managing USD 100 million in committed capital. The partnership combines Granite Asia's experience in technology investments across Asia-Pacific with Integral's operational expertise and deep networks in Japan. Granite-Integral backs growth-stage technology companies that have established strong product-market fit and demonstrated domestic scale, driving the next wave of Digital Transformation - spanning consumer tech, automation, enterprise solutions, and emerging sectors such as AI, robotics, energy transition, health tech, and fintech. By blending venture-like agility with buyout-level operational excellence, the platform provides strategic guidance, local execution, and extensive cross-border networks to accelerate global growth.
Omio raises €8.7 million strategic investment for Asian expansion. July 21, 2026 Omio, Berlin's multimodal travel booking platform, has announced a €8.7 million ($10 million) strategic investment in order to accelerate its expansion in Japan and strengthen its presence across Southeast Asia - a growing travel destination. The investment came from Granite-Integral; a joint venture between Granite Asia and Integral Corporation, managing €87 million ($100 million) in committed capital. This follows last week's announcement that Omio Group has entered in an agreement to acquire Rail Europe. Naren Shaam, Founder and CEO of Omio, says: "Japan is one of the most exciting travel markets in the world today. Millions of travellers visit every year, but planning journeys across different operators and transport modes can still be complex, particularly beyond the major cities. "With Granite-Integral's unparalleled regional expertise, we intend to accelerate a new era of connected travel in Japan, expand our presence across Southeast Asia and continue building a more connected future for travel across Asia." Omio's raise brings 2026 TravelTech funding to approximately €177 million - as per EU-Startups coverage. This includes €2 million for Berlin-based night-train operator Nox Mobility, €64 million for London travel-booking platform Vuelo, €47 million for Trentino-based hospitality software provider Smartness, €49 million for Milan-based group-travel company WeRoad and €6.5 million for Offenburg-based happyhotel. Nox Mobility and happyhotel provide same-country comparisons for Berlin-headquartered Omio. EU-Startups has also previously reported on Omio's July 2026 agreement to acquire Rail Europe, its €83.7 million investment round in 2020 and its acquisition of Rome2Rio in 2019, placing the new Asia-focused investment within a longer pattern of international expansion and broader multimodal travel distribution. CK Choun, co-Head of Granite-Integral adds: "Japan and South East Asia represent some of the most important long-term opportunities in global travel, with growing demand for more connected journeys across the region. Omio has built a highly differentiated multimodal platform with the technology and transport network needed to simplify increasingly fragmented travel experiences. We're excited to support the company as it continues expanding across Asia." Founded in 2013, Omio Group is a global innovator in transportation, connecting travellers, transport operators and travel agents across rail, air, bus and ferry. Its portfolio includes Omio, Omio B2B, Rome2Rio, and, upon completion of the mentioned acquisition, Rail Europe. Omio sells more than 100,000 tickets daily, employs over 470 staff members from more than 50 countries, and maintains offices globally including Asia in Singapore and Bangalore. The Asia-Pacific region is expected to be the fastest-growing travel region globally over the next five years, while nearly half of travellers are planning journeys that combine multiple modes of transport. Omio is expanding its transport network across the region to make those journeys simpler to search, compare, and book. The partnership with Granite-Integral will help Omio deepen its transport network across Japan and Southeast Asia, strengthen local partnerships, refine its customer offering, and grow its regional teams in Japan and in its AI-focused technology hub in Singapore. The investment builds upon a period of strong momentum for Omio in Japan, following its launch earlier this year. Omio says they are already seeing strong demand from international travellers booking journeys along the Golden Route, in addition to more remote destinations, including mountain regions, sacred routes, and coastal communities. Omio will continue to expand its Japanese transport network through partnerships with operators, including Kōbe and Willer Express - with the region representing a key priority within its international growth strategy. Beyond this, Omio intends to expand into more than 70 markets worldwide by 2028.
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About Omio
Industries
Data & Analytics
Automotive & Transportation
Consumer Software
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$606M
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Founded
2012
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