Berlin-based multimodal travel platform Omio has secured a $10 million strategic investment from Granite-Integral to accelerate growth across Japan and Southeast Asia.
The funding will strengthen Omio’s AI technology hub in Singapore, expand regional transport partnerships, and simplify cross-border travel across multiple transport modes.
The investment comes the same week Omio agreed to acquire Rail Europe, a deal the company says would create a combined group selling more than 22 million rail tickets a year across 28,000 transport operators and travel sellers.
During a backpacking trip across Europe in 2010, Indian-born entrepreneur and Harvard Business School graduate Naren Shaam found it difficult to plan and book journeys involving trains and buses across different countries.
Frustrated by fragmented transport systems, he quit his finance job in New York, moved to Berlin’s startup ecosystem, and founded GoEuro in 2013 to bring rail, bus, and flight bookings into a single platform. As the company expanded beyond Europe, GoEuro rebranded to Omio in 2019.
The company has secured a $10 million strategic investment from Granite-Integral to accelerate its expansion across Japan and Southeast Asia, strengthening its regional transport network and its AI capabilities.
Omio plans to use the investment to deepen partnerships with transport operators, grow its regional teams in Japan, and expand its AI-focused technology hub in Singapore, where it is building tools to make searching, comparing, and booking multimodal journeys easier.
“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,” says Shaam.
The investment follows Omio’s launch in Japan, where the platform has seen growing demand from international travellers exploring not only Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka’s Golden Route but also remote mountain regions, coastal communities, and cultural destinations.
AI is becoming the travel planner
Planning international travel is becoming more complicated as travellers combine trains, buses, ferries, and flights within a single itinerary. Omio’s platform aggregates transport options across multiple operators, letting users compare routes, prices, and journey times in one place instead of navigating fragmented booking systems.
The company says it now offers bookable transport across 47 countries, sells more than 100,000 tickets every day, and serves over one billion users annually through its Omio and Rome2Rio platforms.
The investment will also strengthen Omio’s AI development hub in Singapore, aimed at building smarter recommendation engines and improving itinerary planning as it expands across Asia.
Asia is reshaping global travel
Asia-Pacific has emerged as one of the world’s fastest-growing tourism markets, driven by recovering international travel, expanding transport infrastructure, and rising middle-class demand.
According to Grand View Research, the global online travel market is projected to grow steadily over the coming decade as travellers increasingly rely on digital platforms, AI-powered recommendations, and integrated booking experiences to plan more complex journeys.
Japan and Southeast Asia are becoming strategic priorities for global travel platforms as international tourism rebounds and travellers increasingly plan multi-country itineraries. Japan is seeing record inbound tourism, helped by a favourable exchange rate, relaxed visa policies, and demand for destinations beyond Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. Southeast Asia continues to attract digital nomads, leisure travellers, and regional tourists through affordable travel, expanding air connectivity, and visa-friendly policies.
“Japan and Southeast 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,” notes CK Choun, co-head of Granite-Integral.
Travel platforms are racing to own the AI journey
Omio is competing in a crowded travel technology market where AI is a key differentiator.Navan, which listed on Nasdaq in October after an initial public offering that raised roughly $923 million, is focused on AI-powered corporate travel. Hopper has raised $740 million in total funding to build predictive pricing and fintech products for travellers. TravelPerk closed a $200 million Series E round in January 2025 to strengthen its AI-enabled business travel platform.
Unlike rivals focused primarily on flights or corporate travel, Omio combines rail, buses, ferries, and flights within a single itinerary.
Building the operating system for global mobility
The investment is about more than geographic expansion. Omio plans to grow from operating in 47 markets today to more than 70 by 2028, with Japan and Southeast Asia forming a central part of that strategy.
Granite-Integral is a joint venture between Singapore-based Granite Asia and Japanese private equity firm Integral Corporation, launched in March 2025 with $100 million in committed capital to back technology scale-ups expanding into Japan. Its regional expertise is expected to help Omio deepen relationships with transport providers while strengthening its position in one of the world’s fastest-growing travel regions.
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