Amsterdam-based Mews, an OS for hospitality, today announced it has raised €255 million ($300 million) in a Series D funding round in order to further invest in AI, embed agent-driven systems to automate complex workflows, reduce cognitive load for staff, improve the guest experience, and accelerate how products are built and deployed
The round was led by EQT Growth, with new investors Atomico and HarbourVest Partners, and participation from existing investors Kinnevik, Battery Ventures and Tiger Global – valuing the company at €2.1 billion ($2.5 billion).
“With EQT Growth joining in addition to new investors Atomico and HarbourVest, we have the backing to continue moving faster than anyone else in the industry,” says Matt Welle, CEO of Mews. “We are engineering an operating system that is changing how hoteliers interact with their guests. Mews exists to handle the operational complexity so hoteliers can focus on what matters: making hospitality even more fun, profitable, and fulfilling.”
In the context of recent European hospitality and HotelTech funding activity, Amsterdam-based Mews’ €255 million Series D represents one of the largest pure-play software raises in the sector.
Other, smaller but related rounds point to sustained investor interest in operational and management technology for hotels. In Spain, Amenitiz raised €38.9 million to scale its all-in-one hotel management platform and develop new AI-driven features. Also in Spain, Room00 Group secured a €400 million strategic investment to expand its tech-enabled hotel portfolio across Europe, reflecting capital flowing into technology-led hospitality operations rather than software alone.
Taken together, these announcements indicate that roughly €695 million has been committed to European hospitality and adjacent HotelTech models in 2025/2026, with Mews’ raise accounting for a substantial share of that total.
Also of note, is that in March 2024 Mews also raised €101 million to help hoteliers embrace cloud technology.
“Hospitality is the business of experiences,” adds Richard Valtr, Founder of Mews. “The validation for our product from the market is clear, in both the US and Europe, and it is great to see how we are now powering ahead of any other hospitality company in terms of AI and agentic hospitality. It’s an exciting time to reinforce our vision of making Mews hotels the most profitable in the industry.”
Founded in 2012, Mews an OS for hospitality, unifying workflows across revenue, operations and the guest journey so teams can automate the mundane and focus on memorable guest experiences.
Powering 15,000 customers across 85 countries, the Mews platform spans PMS, POS, RMS, Housekeeping and Payments, helping hoteliers move from property management to profit management.
This new funding follows a year of strong and durable growth, during which SaaS gross profit increased by 55%.
In 2025, the company achieved:
- 42.3 million checked-in reservations, of which 3.2 million via Mews Kiosk1
- Platform Transaction Volumes of €16.7 billion ($19.7 billion)
- Accelerated SaaS gross profit growth of 55%
- Created more than €457 million ($537 million) in additional revenue for hoteliers through its proprietary Mews Spaces2 feature, powered by over two million non-room reservations
The funding will expand Mews’ investments in AI, embedding agent-driven systems across the platform to automate complex workflows, reduce cognitive load for staff, significantly improve the guest experience and accelerate how products are built and deployed – enabling properties to:
- Orchestrate operations in real time with intelligent automation
- Optimise revenue and profit with advanced insights into guest behavior
- Scale business without the debt of legacy tech
- Radically simplify workflows to onboard teams faster
“I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know the Mews team for several years and witness the company go from a bold vision to an organization delivering at scale,” said Kirk Lepke, Partner at EQT Growth. “Hospitality is one of the world’s largest industries, yet its core systems remain decades behind. Mews is creating a modern technology standard, an AI-enabled hospitality operating system that helps solve the fragmentation we see in the industry. We at EQT Growth are incredibly excited to lead this round and partner with Mews.”
Mews will also accelerate the expansion of Mews Payments and its broader FinTech infrastructure, embedding commerce into the core of hotel operations and positioning Mews as the connector between experience and revenue.
The investment comes shortly after the completion of Mews’ fourteenth acquisition, DataChat, a generative AI analytics platform.
“Matt and Richard have built a category-defining platform with the depth, pace of innovation and global reach required by modern hospitality,” said Laura Connell, Partner at Atomico. “The most ambitious builders in hospitality are focused on delivering ever-improving experiences for their end consumers, and they need technology that can keep pace with rising expectations around speed, service and personalisation. Mews is the key enabler for the future of hospitality, and the team is well on their way to building a generational company.”
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/01/with-e255-million-in-funding-dutch-company-mews-doubles-down-on-automation-and-payments-in-hospitality/
