SnapTravel
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
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| Industry | Travel technology |
| Founded 📆 | July 24, 2016 |
| Founder 👔 | Hussein Fazal, Henry Shi |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people |
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| Services | Hotel Booking |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | snaptravel |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
SnapTravel is an online hotel booking startup which helps users find and book hotels through messaging apps.
Founders[edit]
Hussein Fazal and Henry Shi founded SnapTravel in San Francisco in October 2016. Prior to founding SnapTravel, Hussein Fazal was the CEO of AdParlor, which reached $100 million in revenue and was later sold to AdKnowledge in 2011. Henry Shi previously started uMentioned, was a machine learning engineer at LendUp and worked as an engineer at Google.
Overview[edit]
SnapTravel allows users to book hotels through a chatbot on SMS, Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger apps.[1] The chatbot uses NLP(Natural Language Processing), and ML (Machine Learning) technologies to deliver a messaging-based booking experience to customers. A human agent will assist a user if the request is not understood by the chatbot.[2][3][4]
Funding[edit]
SnapTravel closed a Series A funding round with $22.4M on Dec 4, 2018. Participating investors include Stephen Curry, Hedgewood, Telstra Ventures, Peter Kern, Lighbank, Bee Partners, iNovia Capital, Steve Corcoran and Sameer Husain. Prior to that, SnapTravel raised $1.1 million in seed funding from Lightbank and Bee Partners in 2016.
References[edit]
- ↑ Rodriguez, Salvador (2019-05-01). "Mark Zuckerberg hints how Facebook will make big bucks from its newfound focus on privacy". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ↑ Graham, Jefferson. "Remember chat bots? Facebook plans to double down after disappointing start". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ↑ "How to plan your next vacation with a chatbot". The Seattle Times. 2017-02-10. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ↑ Ogus, Simon. "Stephen Curry Announces Latest Tech Investment As His Startup Portfolio Continues To Grow". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
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