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The Hotel Desk That Fits in a Pocket
Independent innkeepers once needed a calendar, five extranets and a talent for midnight arithmetic. eviivo turned that mess into one cloud dashboard - then spent two decades teaching it payments, pricing, AI chat and even how to open the door.
Tripleseat Turned the Restaurant’s Messiest Revenue Stream Into Software
A botched private event exposed a market hiding in binders and spreadsheets. Tripleseat built the operating system for venue sales - then added booking, payments, ticketing, floor plans and a marketplace around it.
Axel Lingbert Is Trading Hotel Software for a Seat in the Lobby
A ski-hotel shift taught Axel Lingbert that hospitality improves when staff can leave the screen. Now the Zaplar co-founder is trying to redesign the software that keeps them stuck there.
The Company That Beached an iPad in the Wynn Two Weeks After Apple Shipped It
A three-person shop in Mill Neck, New York has been quietly running the wine lists and room-service screens of some of the world's most expensive hotels for two decades. Here is how a first-mover bet on the iPad turned into a durable niche.
AVISIO
AVISIO was a Vienna-based hospitality-tech startup that built a cloud, AI-assisted procurement and inventory platform for independent hotels and restaurants. Founded in 2019 by Matthias Depenbusch and Johannes Ossanna, it integrated with POS and PMS systems to automate stocktaking, compare supplier prices in real time, and suggest order quantities from booking data - promising roughly 10% lower purchasing costs and less waste. It raised over EUR 2 million from backers including Falkensteiner Ventures and Next Floor Ventures before filing for insolvency in April 2023.
Revinate
Revinate is a hospitality software company that helps hotels turn guest data into direct revenue. Its platform unifies fragmented hotel data into rich guest profiles, then powers CRM, email marketing, guest messaging, voice reservations and reputation tools used by more than 12,500 hotels worldwide.
Canary Technologies
Canary Technologies is the AI-powered Guest Management System trusted by 20,000+ hotels in 100+ countries. Founded in 2017 by Harman Singh Narula and SJ Sawhney, it sells AI Voice, AI Webchat, Mobile Check-In, Digital Contracts, Upsells, and Digital Tipping to brands like Marriott, Wyndham, Four Seasons, and Best Western.
Hannah Greenberg
Hannah Greenberg is the CEO of Eleven Software, the cloud-based Wi-Fi authentication platform powering connectivity for 25,000+ hotel properties across 140+ countries - processing over 10 billion authentications per year for brands like Hilton, Marriott, Accor, and Wyndham. She acquired Eleven in 2022 through a search fund she built after her MBA at UC Berkeley Haas, then led the 2023 acquisition of UK-based Airangel to create the world's leading hospitality Wi-Fi management company. A Cornell Hotel School alumna with roots in PwC consulting and $1 billion in hotel development at Seaview Investors, Greenberg brings the rare combination of an owner-operator's instinct and a technologist's ambition to one of hospitality's most infrastructure-critical categories.