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Operating System for Hotels and Vacation Rentals

Winter 2021Founded 201958 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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Stayflexi is a revolutionary platform designed to simplify hotel and vacation rental operations, while increasing revenues from unsold rooms and amenities. By harnessing the power of automation, Stayflexi eliminates the need for manual processes and provides a seamless, positive customer experience for guests. Founded by computer science majors from Carnegie Mellon and Cornell, Stayflexi was born out of the need to solve the problems experienced by hosts and travelers. With Stayflexi, you can rest assured that your guests will be given the best possible experience and that you will be able to maximize profits on your unsold rooms. Stayflexi platform is helping over 3000 hotels in 16 different countries and growing rapidly.

From their website

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Stayflexi markets an AI-driven hospitality platform that automates core hotel and vacation rental operations. It emphasizes AI agents that handle reservations, pricing, guest communication, operations, and revenue optimization.

An AI agent-based platform for hotels and vacation rentals that automates reservations, pricing, guest communications, operational tasks, and revenue optimization, effectively running the property via AI-driven processes.

Who it’s for: Hotels and vacation rental operators seeking automated AI-driven management of reservations, pricing, guest interactions, and operations.

Features
  • AI-driven reservations management
  • Automated pricing optimization
  • Automated guest communications
  • Operations automation
  • Revenue optimization
  • Hotel/vacation rental integration
  • AI agents handling routine tasks

Founders · 3

Venkatesh Sakamuri
Venkatesh SakamuriFounder
OracleCarnegie Mellon🎓 Carnegie Mellon University

Venkat is Co-Founder and CEO of Stayflexi Inc. Venkat previously worked at Oracle in the Core Database Development group on the SQL Engine team (the founding team of Oracle). He is a computer science major from Carnegie Mellon University. He hold couple of patents in database systems. Venkat loves coffee, he learnt how to make a perfect cup from scratch, right from grinding beans to proper latte (sometimes latte art), he does things this way.

Preetam Mohan Shetty
Preetam Mohan ShettyFounder
OracleCornell🎓 Cornell University

Preetam Shetty is the Co Founder, CTO at Stayflexi. He Invented the flexible slot based booking model for the rental industry. Architected and developed the core Stayflexi Platform. Preetam previously worked for Oracle and was part of the engineering team responsible for building the NoSQL database service in Oracle cloud. He earned his masters degree in Computer Science at Cornell University.

Krishna Sasank Talasila
Krishna Sasank TalasilaFounder
Cornell🎓 Cornell University

Krishna Sasank Talasila is the Co-Founder and Chief Information Officer at Stayflexi. Leads the UI/UX development, Cloud Infrastructure and Operations. Co-invented the time-based flexible inventory booking model to revolutionize the hospitality industry. Krishna holds a Masters degree in Computer science from Cornell University.

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