Best Travel and Hospitality Tech Companies in Tennessee, United States
The 57 best Travel and Hospitality Tech companies in Tennessee, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: RootsRated.
Ranked: Best Travel and Hospitality Tech companies in Tennessee
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RootsRated Online content platform for curated outdoor experiences | $9M | 100 mo ago | Deadpooled | Fynn Glover CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 2 | Preteckt Predictive maintenance & remote diagnostics of vehicles | $7M | 39 mo ago | Acquired | Sasha Kucharczyk Co-founder and COO | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | — |
| 3 | GRIDSMART Traffic management system | $6M | 190 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2006 | — | — |
| 4 | Pigeon Forge Provider of lodging, attractions, dining, and event information for travelers | $2M | 201 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1996 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressMySQL+20 | — |
| 5 | AnyCreek Online platform for booking outdoor fishing activities | $2M | 25 mo ago | Seed | Benjamin Lazarov Co-Founder & CEO | 2022 | SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+25 | 1 job opening |
| 6 | Beachy Provider of web-based management software for resorts | $1M | 28 mo ago | Seed | Joshua Aronson Co-Founder | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | 2 partnerships · 2 awards |
| 7 | Cabsolutely Cab-sharing app on airports | $605K | 121 mo ago | Deadpooled | Virág Réti Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 8 | Sierra Madre Internet-first brand of outdoor sports products & accessories | $175K | 105 mo ago | Seed | — | 2011 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+41 | — |
Top 12 Travel and Hospitality Tech companies in Tennessee
#1
Seed · Memphis, Tennessee · founded 2022 · 7 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Online platform for booking outdoor activities. Users can book the activities by creating an account and providing location, preferred dates, traveler details, payment details, and more.
- Jun 2024Seed$1.8M
#2
Seed · Nashville, Tennessee · founded 2015 · 27 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Provider of web-based management software for resorts. It offers revenue management, guest engagement, resort operations management, online reservations, real-time visibility into sales, in-app reporting, payment card processing & more.
- Feb 2024Seed$1M
- Dec 2019Conventional Debt$1M
- Nov 2015Seed$400K
#3
Acquired · Memphis, Tennessee · founded 2014 · 45 employees$6.7Mraised▾
Predictive maintenance & remote diagnostics of vehicles. It provides truck owners with sensor units that record data from different components within a vehicle and sends it to the cloud. The data is then analyzed to monitor & predict the health of the vehicle and provide alerts to the fleet owners/drivers.
- Apr 2023Series A$2M
- Feb 2020Series A$1.7M
- Dec 2018Series A$2.7M
- Feb 2017Seed—
#4
Deadpooled · Chattanooga, Tennessee · founded 2012$9Mraised▾
RootsRated is an online travel content platform that enables users to discover outdoor experiences, curated by outdoor retailers and local experts. The platform also offers content marketing solutions for brands, retailers, destination marketing organizations (DMOs) and OTAs. Platform licenses videos, images, and content produced from a network of freelance writers and photographers for retailers, hotels and outdoor tourism businesses. Claims to have generated a revenue of $1.5M in 2016.
- Mar 2018Series B$6.5M
- Oct 2015Series A$2.5M
#5
Acquired · Knoxville, Tennessee · founded 2006 · 75 employees$6Mraised▾
Gridsmart is a traffic management system that helps to change traffic lights in response to traffic demands. It uses a fisheye camera-based system for traffic data collection, and a patented GS2 processor to track and analyze the data. The system enables real-time remote monitoring & assessment to control traffic signals.
- Aug 2010Series A$6M
#6
Funding Raised · Pigeon Forge, Tennessee · founded 1996$2Mraised▾
Provider of lodging, attractions, dining, and event information for travelers. It offers resources for planning trips, finding accommodations such as cabins, hotels, and campgrounds, and discovering local attractions and activities. The platform also provides details on restaurants, shows, shopping, and outdoor recreation. Additionally, it features coupons, deals, and travel guides to assist visitors in saving money and making informed decisions.
- Sep 2009Grant (prize money)$2M
#7
Deadpooled · Memphis, Tennessee · founded 2014$605Kraised▾
Cabsolutely provides full IT and marketing solution for cab companies and makes them able to reach the users. For passengers, it provides the Cabsolutely mobile app which aggregates the local, licensed drivers. Graduated from Start Co's Upstart, a GAN accelerator in Summer 2014.
- Jun 2016Seed$500K
- Nov 2014Seed$105K
#8
Seed · Chattanooga, Tennessee · founded 2011 · 32 employees$175Kraised▾
Sierra Madre Research is an internet-first brand of outdoor sports products & accessories. Offerings include hammock shelters, hammocks, quilts, camp accessories, hats, t-shirts, and more. Caters to both men & women for climbing, hiking, mountaineering, kayaking, biking, and other outdoor activities.
- Oct 2017Seed$175K
#9
Deadpooled · Nashville, Tennessee · founded 2010$20Kraised▾
Provider of SaaS solutions for vacation rental owners. It enables them to create their own website through which they can manage and promote their vacation rental properties.
- Mar 2010Seed$20K
#10
Deadpooled · Memphis, Tennessee · founded 2011$15Kraised▾
A Smarter City provides municipal mesh networks and interactive networking software to enable powerful real-time assessments of a city's workings. A Smarter City supplies a city-wide interface to their sensor networking platforms. Their demonstration deployment enables parking garage owners and operators a real-time audit of their spaces while giving consumers accurate information on where there is space to park. Through their APIs other developers can deploy municipals solutions on top of their existing network platform and software.
- Mar 2011Seed$15K
#11
Series A · Nashville, Tennessee · founded 2014 · 13 employees—raised▾
Incentivizing sustainable transportation choices with verified trips and measurable impact. The company offers a platform that aligns commuters and sponsors with rewards for low-carbon travel. It verifies trips, targets specific behaviors, and provides defensible results, shifting travel toward cleaner, smarter patterns. The platform helps organizations reduce single-occupancy trips and peak congestion by rewarding verified sustainable choices. It pairs trip verification with sponsor-funded incentives and privacy-preserving analytics, providing stakeholders with clear outcomes like reduced peak-hour miles and lower emissions. The platform quantifies VMT reduced, CO₂e avoided, and program ROI. It is a SaaS platform that offers trip verification, incentive management, and data analytics. It integrates with HR, transit, and parking systems. The company's focus is on sustainability, behavior change, and creating a positive social impact by promoting eco-friendly transportation options.
- Aug 2018Series A—
#12
Seed · Nashville, Tennessee · founded 2012 · 3 employees—raised▾
Ballparc is a parking management app for parking management companies. The app provides parking revenue control system, violation issuance and management system. The company also has partnership with reserve parking companies ParkMobile and Parkwhiz. The clients of the company are Republic Parking system, Denison Parking, Unified Parking Partners, and Parking authority of River City.
- Jun 2013Seed—
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