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Martin Retai Put the Tour Guide in Your Pocket - Then Told the Screen to Get Out of the Way
A gondolier’s stories in Venice gave a Hungarian engineer a product idea: let the phone know where you are, let a local voice explain why it matters, and leave your eyes free for the city.
Le Walk
Le Walk is a location-based, immersive travel app that turns your phone and headphones into a private walking-tour guide. Using GPS-triggered audio narration, cinematic soundscapes, and world-class local guides, it walks you around a city at your own pace - no group tours, no fixed schedules - across 22+ languages. Built by three former TikTok employees and operating as Routes AI, Inc., the company launched publicly in September 2025 with a $4.1M seed round and is scaling from a handful of European cities toward 25+ destinations.
Aaron Sekhri
Aaron Sekhri is the co-founder and CEO of Le Walk, a New York startup that turns your headphones into a hands-free local tour guide. After product roles at Uber ATG's self-driving program and TikTok, where he built the mini-program developer platform, Sekhri left the infinite scroll behind to build something that makes people look up. Le Walk delivers GPS-triggered audio tours narrated by real expert guides in 22 languages, and launched publicly in September 2025 with a $4.1 million seed round co-led by Adverb Ventures and Lerer Hippeau.