30 Sundays Raises $6.7M to Make International Travel More Personal
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Travel booking is digital. Planning a complex international holiday is still fragmented.
AI-powered travel platform 30 Sundays has raised $6.7 million in a funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Info Edge Ventures and Eximius Ventures. The company plans to expand its platform for discovering, planning, and booking international holidays.
Founded in 2024 by Kshitij Chaudhary, formerly with Boston Consulting Group, and Anuj Punjani, a former Apple employee, 30 Sundays is building an end-to-end service around leisure travel rather than offering another standalone itinerary generator.
From inspiration to in-trip support
The platform helps users discover destinations, create personalized itineraries, and complete bookings within one workflow.
It also provides an in-app concierge during the trip, extending the customer relationship beyond the point of sale. That matters because international travel frequently involves changing plans, local coordination, documentation, transfers, and support across multiple suppliers.
The company’s model attempts to replace a fragmented process involving search engines, travel agents, booking platforms, spreadsheets, and messaging apps with one guided experience.
Why AI matters in travel planning
Travel is well suited to conversational AI because customer requests are rarely simple.
A traveler may need to balance budget, visa requirements, flight duration, hotel quality, activities, food preferences, and the needs of several people. Conventional search tools return options, but they do not always resolve those trade-offs into a workable trip.
The stronger opportunity is not merely generating an itinerary. It is connecting recommendations with real inventory, bookings, and support when conditions change.
That places 30 Sundays closer to an AI-enabled travel operator than a basic planning chatbot.
The market signal
The funding reflects growing investor interest in vertical AI platforms that control more of the customer journey.
In travel, the commercial value sits in moving from inspiration to transaction. A platform that only recommends destinations may struggle to monetize. A system that helps customers choose, book, and manage a complete holiday can participate in a larger share of travel spending.
The challenge will be maintaining recommendation quality and operational reliability as the company scales. International holidays involve third-party airlines, hotels, local operators, and policies outside the platform’s direct control.
30 Sundays is betting that AI can make holiday planning feel more personal without losing the human support travelers expect when a trip becomes complicated.
Source : Economic Times
