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The Quiet Algorithm Behind the Price of a Hotel Room
Before a guest sees a room rate, IDeaS has often weighed the demand, the timing and the cost of saying yes. The Minnesota software company turned an airline math problem into the operating logic of modern hospitality.
One Tells You the Price. The Other Does the Job.
A plain-spoken comparison that clears up a common category confusion in freight tech: Greenscreens.ai is rate intelligence and dynamic pricing infrastructure, while Pallet is end-to-end workflow automation. The two solve different problems — one tells you what to charge, the other actually does the work — and for many brokerages, Pallet integrates with Greenscreens rather than replacing it. The piece also notes Triumph Financial's 2025 acquisition of Greenscreens as a sign the pricing-data layer of freight tech is maturing and consolidating.
Kozystay
Kozystay is a Jakarta-based, technology-enabled short-term rental management company and Indonesia's largest player in the flexible-stay segment. It manages more than 1,000 premium apartments and villas across Jakarta, Bandung and Bali on behalf of property owners, handling pricing, bookings, housekeeping, guest communication and maintenance under a profit-sharing model. Founded in 2019 by Dane Putranto and Frans Winarto, the company reached EBITDA breakeven, raised a Series A in 2025 led by Integra Partners with Intudo Ventures and Cercano Management, and acquired Bali villa manager BaliSuperHost to build a nationwide operating platform.
Omnistream
Omnistream is an AI-powered category-management platform that helps retailers build consumer-centric, store-level planograms in minutes. Founded in 2018 by former quant trader Wendy Chen, the company integrates a retailer's sales and product data to generate assortment and shelf-space recommendations tuned to each store's local demand. Its software is deployed across 8,500+ retail locations in convenience, grocery and health & beauty, serving names like 7-Eleven, Watsons and FairPrice, and reports incremental sales gains of roughly 4-11% alongside sharp reductions in waste.
Travelio
Travelio is an Indonesian property-technology company that runs an online marketplace and end-to-end management platform for apartments, houses and villas. Founded in Jakarta in 2015, it lets landlords hand over units for professional management while giving tenants furnished, standardized homes they can book and pay for daily, monthly or annually - including a rare month-by-month payment option in a market that traditionally demands a full year up front. Often called 'Indonesia's Airbnb,' Travelio manages roughly 15,000 exclusive properties across a dozen cities and is expanding into rent-to-own housing.
Cubby
Cubby is an AI-native software platform built specifically for the self-storage industry. Founded in 2022 by Matt Engfer and Adam Fleming and headquartered in New York City, it replaces the sector's aging legacy systems with a single operating platform that unifies facility management, online rentals, revenue management, call handling and autonomous Voice AI. Cubby now serves more than 400 operators managing roughly 450,000 units across North America, and in January 2026 raised a $63 million Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
DataWeave
DataWeave is an AI-powered digital commerce analytics company that helps consumer brands and retailers grow revenue and protect margins online. Its SaaS platform aggregates and analyzes public e-commerce data at massive scale to deliver pricing intelligence, digital shelf analytics, assortment insights, and brand protection to more than 400 global brands and retailers, including Zappos, Costco, and Home Depot.
MarketLeap
MarketLeap is an AI-driven ecommerce accelerator that helps consumer brands launch and scale on global marketplaces such as Amazon, Walmart, eBay, OTTO, BOL and TikTok Shop. Founded in 2022 by former Amazon and Jumia executives Mamoun Benkirane and Mekki Mouaddeb, the platform combines automation, analytics and hands-on operations - including listing optimization, dynamic pricing, marketing, inventory forecasting and VAT/tax compliance - under a 'skin in the game' model that absorbs marketing costs and runs on 30-day rolling contracts. The company raised an $8M Series A in February 2025, bringing total funding to about $10.7M.
Pricemoov
Pricemoov is a Paris-based B2B SaaS company that builds a cloud-native price management and optimization platform. It combines data science, automation, and competitive market intelligence to help retailers, distributors, and enterprises set, govern, and optimize prices across channels - protecting margins and lifting revenue. Founded in 2016 by Pierre Hebrard, Francois Aubert, and Jean Saglio, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2023 and serves customers across auto-parts, grocery, retail, distribution, and rental industries.
SeatGeek
SeatGeek is a New York-based ticketing company that runs a mobile-first marketplace for live sports, concerts and theater alongside an enterprise platform that powers primary ticketing for teams, leagues and venues. It is best known for Deal Score, an algorithm that rates every listing by price and seat value, and it competes with Ticketmaster and StubHub across both the primary and secondary ticket markets.
Spresso.AI
Spresso.AI is a New York-based enterprise SaaS company that uses AI, machine learning and reinforcement learning to help retailers, brands and CPG companies set profit-maximizing prices at the SKU level. Spun out of the online wholesaler Boxed, Spresso packages its Pricing Intelligence, Enterprise Commerce Suite and Spend Management tools into a modular platform that continuously tests price points and allocates customer traffic toward the most profitable one. Led by CEO Jared Yaman and backed by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, the company serves roughly 15 enterprise customers, including AEON Group and Fortune 500 brands.
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.
Jared Yaman
Jared Yaman is the CEO and a co-founder of Spresso, a New York-based AI company that builds pricing intelligence and price-optimization software for retail, CPG, and ecommerce businesses. A three-time founder with a University of Michigan law and economics background, he previously co-founded and served as COO of Boxed, the online wholesale retailer that competed with Walmart, Costco, and Amazon, weathered the pandemic, and went public before winding down. At Spresso he is turning the pricing engine built inside Boxed into a standalone product, arguing that AI should supplement rather than replace human judgment.
AirGarage
AirGarage is a San Francisco-based, full-stack parking management company that helps real estate owners turn parking lots and garages into higher-yielding assets. It combines software - dynamic pricing, license plate recognition cameras, mobile payments and a real-time owner dashboard - with on-the-ground operations like enforcement, maintenance and marketing, all under a revenue-share model. Founded in 2017 by three Arizona State University students, the company manages 400+ parking locations across 40+ states and has served more than 11 million drivers.
Pierre Hebrard
Pierre Hebrard is the CEO and co-founder of Pricemoov, a Paris-based SaaS platform that helps enterprises set, govern, and optimize prices using AI. He started the company in 2016 after a career that took him from investment banking in London and trading in Hong Kong to running Jumia's operations across Kenya and Nigeria. In April 2023 Pricemoov raised a $10 million Series A led by ISAI and Bpifrance Digital Venture.
Upped Events Inc.
Upped Events is a Philadelphia-based, software-only event management and payments platform that bundles ticketing, contactless mobile payments, on-site point-of-sale, CRM, mapping, staff and partner management, and real-time analytics into one system. Built for food and drink festivals, fairs, conventions, and community events, Upped aims to raise attendee spend and organizer ROI while cutting the number of tools a team has to juggle. Founded in 2020 by Mark Kozlowski, Louis Blitzman, and Filip Risteski, the company was acquired by Events.com in May 2025.
aifleet
aifleet is an Austin-based, tech-driven trucking company that runs its own fleet on proprietary AI. Instead of selling software to carriers, it operates as a full-stack truckload carrier, using machine learning to book, price, and stack loads so trucks run fuller and drivers earn more with predictable weekly home time. The company reports roughly 40% higher truck utilization than the industry average and aims to fix the chronic inefficiency and high driver turnover that define long-haul freight.
Pricefx
Pricefx is a cloud-native, AI-powered pricing platform that helps enterprises set, manage, and optimize prices. Founded in 2011 in Germany, it offers a modular suite spanning price analytics, price setting, quoting (CPQ), rebate and agreement management, and AI-driven optimization. Today it serves enterprise manufacturers, distributors, and B2B leaders, and is recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for B2B Pricing and Rebates Optimization Software.
Summer
Summer is a New York proptech company that builds SummerOS, asset-management software for short-term rental operators. After starting as an asset-heavy 'own a vacation home without the risk' model, the Airbnb-alumni team pivoted to SaaS, crunching market data and a property's own performance to tell operators exactly what to fix, raise, or rethink. It aims to bring professional-grade, data-driven tools - long standard in commercial real estate - to the fragmented $125B short-term rental market.
Beyond
Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing) is a San Francisco-based revenue management platform for short-term rental owners and property managers. Its data-driven pricing engine, market insights, booking engine, and OTA distribution tools help hosts and managers grow bookings across 340,000+ listings in 7,500+ cities. Bessemer-backed and led by CEO Julie Brinkman, Beyond has powered billions in booking revenue and is widely viewed as the category's category-definer.
FLYR
FLYR is an AI-first travel and transportation technology company building a cloud-native Revenue Operating System for airlines and hospitality brands. Its deep-learning platform powers forecasting, dynamic pricing, offer and order management, and revenue optimization for customers like JetBlue, Air New Zealand, Avianca, Virgin Atlantic, and Wyndham.
Amr Aloufi
Amr Aloufi is a Co-Founder at Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing), a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that uses AI and dynamic pricing algorithms to maximize revenue for short-term rental property managers and vacation rental hosts worldwide. With roots in Saudi Arabia and a background in business administration and human resources, Aloufi brought operational and business development acumen to a company that has grown to serve 715,000+ listings across 44,000+ cities, raised $46M in funding, and priced over $15 billion in bookings.
Julie Brinkman
Julie Brinkman is CEO of Beyond, the leading revenue management platform for short-term rental operators. She joined as COO on March 2, 2020 - just 10 days before global COVID travel bans - and navigated the company through the pandemic to emerge stronger, earning her promotion to CEO in February 2021. A University of Michigan Ross School of Business alumna, Brinkman spent a decade at Deloitte before sharpening her growth instincts at Groupon and Hireology. She now leads a global team of ~310 across 30 countries, focused on replacing gut-feel pricing with data-driven revenue optimization for property managers worldwide.
Hypersonix Inc.
Hypersonix is an agentic AI platform purpose-built for retail and eCommerce profitability. Its flagship product, ProfitGPT, gives merchants autonomous decision-making across pricing, promotions, forecasting, and inventory - replacing weeks of analyst work with minutes of AI-driven insight. With 5M+ SKUs optimized and 100K+ daily autonomous pricing decisions, Hypersonix helps retailers like LVMH, Woodman's Market, and Rogers Sporting Goods capture margin lift of 10-12% within 90 days.
Xola
Xola is a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that provides enterprise-grade booking, marketing, and operations software for tour operators and activity providers. Founded in 2011, Xola helps over 1,200 businesses in the tours and activities industry manage reservations, process payments, automate marketing, and grow their operations — all from a single cloud-based platform. With integrations across Google, Groupon, Expedia, TripAdvisor, and 75+ other apps, Xola brings enterprise-caliber tools to an industry that has historically been underserved by technology.