Zaplar is a Stockholm-based, Y Combinator (S26) startup building an AI-native operating system for hotels and event venues. Instead of stitching together the legacy hotel stack - PMS, POS, booking engine, CRS, RMS and MICE tools - Zaplar consolidates them into one platform where AI agents handle bookings, guest messaging, RFPs, event planning and follow-ups. Staff review and approve the agents' suggested actions, so hoteliers keep control while spending less time in front of a screen.
Softinn Solutions is a Malaysian hotel technology company that builds cloud-based hotel management software for boutique hotels, resorts, villas and hotel chains across the Asia Pacific. Its all-in-one platform pairs a Property Management System with a Channel Manager connected to 40+ OTAs, a commission-free booking engine, a website CMS and self-service check-in kiosks - designed around the mission to 'make hotelier work easier.' Founded in Melaka in 2012 by JeeShen Lee and Caren, Softinn serves 1,000+ hotel owners in markets including Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Singapore.
Xeni is a New York-based travel technology company building a white-label platform that lets businesses launch their own branded booking engines on top of wholesale travel inventory - hotels, flights, cars, activities and cruises - through no-code, low-code and API options. Its settlement layer, XeniPay, runs on the Hedera network and uses smart contracts to tokenize and auto-distribute payments (fiat or crypto) to every party in a booking, aiming to fix an industry where a large share of reseller commissions historically go unpaid. Founded by Sachin Narode and Rachel Obenshain, Xeni positions itself as an operating system for travel commerce - often described as the 'Shopify of travel.'
Sachin Narode is the co-founder and CEO of Xeni, a New York-based Web 3.0 operating system for travel that lets anyone launch a white-label booking platform with wholesale inventory, instant blockchain settlement, and no-code tools. A self-described serial entrepreneur with a background in medicine, molecular biology and finance, he has built and sold companies across biotech and wearables, advised technology and data teams at Morgan Stanley, and once became known as 'the Mango Man' for introducing a mango market to the United States. He preaches a single gospel: execution over ideas.
Adam Harris is the co-founder and CEO of Cloudbeds, the hospitality management platform he started in 2012 with Richard Castle after a sketchy reservation experience at a Brazilian pousada. From a back-of-the-napkin idea, he built Cloudbeds into a fully remote company of 700+ people across 40+ countries that powers tens of thousands of lodging properties in more than 150 countries. A former Wall Street investment banker turned serial entrepreneur, Harris has built and sold multiple companies, traveled to more than 51 countries, and is now steering Cloudbeds through the AI era while championing a no-office culture.
Cloudbeds is a San Diego-based hospitality management platform that gives independent hotels, hostels, vacation rentals, and lodging groups a single cloud system to run reservations, distribution, payments, revenue management, and guest communication. Founded in 2012 by Adam Harris and Richard Castle, the fully remote company replaces the tangle of disconnected legacy tools that property owners juggle, serving tens of thousands of properties across roughly 150 countries and, more recently, layering in AI through its Cloudbeds Intelligence and Signals products.