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TripWorks
TripWorks is a New York-based, AI- and business-intelligence-driven booking, automation, and management platform built for tour, activity, and attraction operators. Founded in 2019 by Aaron Fessler and described as 'built by operators for operators,' the platform consolidates online and in-person bookings, reservations, dynamic pricing, digital waivers, staff and resource scheduling, OTA channel management, and marketing automation into a single system. It powers thousands of daily bookings worldwide and, following a $6M Series A in January 2026 led by Spring Mountain Capital, is expanding AI-driven pricing, revenue optimization, and predictive demand tools.
uhomes.com
uhomes.com (operated by Uhouzz) is a global online marketplace for international student accommodation. Founded in 2015 by Jason Yin, it connects students with verified housing near universities across 500+ cities in around 27 countries, listing more than 2 million beds from 2,000+ apartment brands. The platform combines AI-driven property matching, VR and 3D virtual viewings, multilingual one-on-one consultants and a zero-agency-fee, zero-markup pricing promise, and has served over 2.5 million registered users with 400,000+ successful bookings.
WeTravel
WeTravel is a fintech and SaaS platform built specifically for multi-day, group and tour travel businesses. It lets operators create branded booking pages, collect deposits and staged installment payments in multiple currencies, manage traveler details, pay suppliers, and build AI-assisted itineraries - all from one dashboard. Founded in 2016 by three immigrant entrepreneurs who met at UC Berkeley, the company has processed trips in 206 countries for more than 1.6 million travelers and raised $126M in total funding, including a $92M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures in September 2025.
Ted Clements
Ted Clements is the CEO of WeTravel, a San Francisco-based payments and booking platform for multi-day and group travel operators. He took the top job in January 2023 after co-founder Johannes Koeppel stepped aside to become Chief Product Officer and personally recruited him. Clements built his career at FareHarbor, joining as one of the first mainland US sales reps and rising to COO and acting CEO, helping scale the day-tour software company to 700-plus employees and an acquisition by Booking Holdings. In September 2025 he led WeTravel through a $92 million Series C round from Sapphire Ventures, pushing the company toward its goal of becoming the operating system for the fragmented multi-day travel market.
Dmitrii Pistolyako
Dmitrii Pistolyako is the co-founder and CEO of LinguaTrip, a San Francisco-based booking platform for language courses and study-abroad programs that has served more than 100,000 students from over 100 countries. A math-and-economics graduate from Saint Petersburg, he turned a free study-abroad consulting side hustle into a venture-backed company, surviving more than 50 investor rejections before becoming the only Russian startup in his 500 Startups batch. He also leads Fluent.Express and shares his playbook for building a company in the US through his Russian-language YouTube channel and online courses.
TeachMe.To
TeachMe.To is a marketplace for booking in-person private lessons - golf, tennis, pickleball, music, yoga, and more - that matches beginners with vetted local coaches and handles scheduling, payments, and reviews in one place.