Valpas to increase hotel beds using the tech by 50 times its current stock
Valpas, the only bed bug-safe travel platform, is forecasting it will grow the number of hotel beds using the ‘hospitality standard’ technology from 40,000 to two million by 2030.
The news comes not long after the company secured £3.3 million in seed funding in a round led by Zenith VC alongside Icebreaker VC, Finnish Industry Investment, Canon Marketing Japan MIRAI Fund, Activum SG Ventures, Houghton Street Ventures, Rockaway Ventures and Morrow Ventures.
The investment will be used to double the number of beds in properties through the production and installation of the Valpas tech on-site during 2025.
The Valpas ‘hospitality standard’ guarantee is now in place in Europe, Mexico and Japan, responding to a problem that currently costs the hospitality industry billions of pounds a year in lost revenues and environmentally damaging pesticide cleaning fees.
Martim Gois, CEO and Co-Founder of Valpas said: “Today, millions of travellers take their own precautions … at hotels every day without staff ever noticing it, afraid of carrying bed bugs’ home.
“The best hoteliers understand this and respond to it by affiliating them with the Valpas platform and guaranteeing a safe and sustainable stay. Historically, bed bugs have been a touchy topic, but guaranteed safe hotels are what the traveller wants.”
Valpas’ solution centres around a guest promise of a bed bug-safe and non-toxic stay, visible to travellers via their certificate that integrates with hotel websites, booking platforms and OTAs.
The guest promise is guaranteed thanks to their in-room technology of smart anti-bed bug bed legs that interrupt the transmission of bed bugs at first contact in every room permanently and connect to an app for a digital certificate 24/7.
