Mews lands $300M Series D at $2.5B valuation
Mews, a Czech-founded hospitality technology company building a cloud platform for hotel operations, has raised $300 million in a Series D funding round led by EQT Growth. The financing values the company at $2.5 billion, according to details shared by the company.
The round includes new investors Atomico and HarbourVest Partners, alongside existing backers Kinnevik, Battery Ventures, and Tiger Global. The investment comes as hotels and accommodation providers continue replacing legacy property management systems with cloud-based platforms designed to support automation, integrated payments, and modern guest experiences.
Modernizing hotel operations built on legacy software
Many hotels still rely on older, rigid systems that can be difficult to update and integrate with newer tools. These limitations can affect everything from front-desk workflows to revenue management, and can make it harder for multi-property operators to standardize processes across locations.
Mews positions its product as a single, connected platform that brings core hotel functions into one interface, aiming to help operators run properties more efficiently while improving the guest journey. The company says its architecture is cloud-native, allowing deployments across multiple properties and geographies while maintaining real-time performance.
What Mews offers: automation, flexible inventory, and embedded payments
Founded by Richard Valtr and Matt Welle, Mews has built a suite of products that extends beyond traditional property management. The company describes its platform as using AI-driven automation to reduce routine tasks and generate operational insights.
Key products highlighted by the company include:
- Mews Spaces, which enables hotels to sell and manage different types of spaces beyond rooms—such as meeting rooms, coworking areas, or other bookable inventory.
- Mews Kiosk, a self-service check-in and check-out option intended to reduce lines and free staff for higher-touch guest interactions.
- Mews Payments, an embedded payments layer designed to integrate financial transactions directly into the guest journey and back-office workflows.
The company also emphasizes its use of AI agents—software components that learn from operational data to support tasks such as workflow automation and decision-making. In practice, this category of tooling is increasingly being adopted across enterprise software as companies look to cut manual work and improve responsiveness.
Competitive landscape
Hospitality software is a crowded market that includes long-established providers and newer cloud-first entrants. Mews is competing with vendors such as Oracle Hospitality, Cloudbeds, and Hotelogix, among others. The company’s pitch is centered on being fully cloud-native and built around automation from the ground up, rather than adapting older systems to cloud deployments.
How the new funding will be used
Mews said it plans to use the capital to deepen its work on AI agents to further streamline hotel operations, enhance personalization, and accelerate product development. The company also plans to expand its fintech capabilities through Mews Payments, with a focus on embedding more commerce and financial tools directly into the platform.
For hospitality operators, integrated payments and automation can reduce reconciliation work and help create a more seamless guest experience, particularly as travelers increasingly expect mobile-friendly, low-friction interactions such as digital check-in, flexible add-ons, and faster checkout processes.
Why this round matters for hospitality tech
The funding underscores continued investor interest in vertical SaaS platforms that can consolidate fragmented workflows and capture more value through embedded financial services. Hospitality is a sector where operational complexity—spanning reservations, housekeeping, maintenance, staffing, distribution channels, and payments—creates opportunities for platforms that can unify data and processes across departments.
At a $2.5 billion valuation, Mews joins a cohort of high-growth European software companies aiming to scale globally by combining core operational systems with AI-driven automation and fintech products. The company’s next phase will likely be judged by how effectively it can expand adoption across large hotel groups, maintain product reliability at scale, and translate AI features into measurable operational gains for customers.
What comes next
With fresh capital and a strengthened investor base, Mews is signaling that it intends to push further into AI-led automation and payments-led monetization. If it succeeds, the company could strengthen its position as an end-to-end operating system for hotels—one that not only manages rooms, but also helps operators sell more types of inventory, automate back-office processes, and embed payments throughout the guest lifecycle.
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