Travelers spend hours to find a great hotel, which matches their personal preferences and won’t ruin their vacation, by reading through description, facilities and guest reviews of several hotels and manually comparing them. Alex is a free virtual travel concierge, which utilizes Artificial Intelligence to instantly hand-pick best hotel offers as a response to your requests over SMS, Twitter, E-mail and Mobile-Chat, to provide the personal touch that was once afforded by working directly with a travel agent or dealing directly with an airline or hotel via phone. Alex understands what matters most to travelers and puts their priorities first to select most appealing hotel offers while also making sure that you always get the lowest available rate. Alex is a true travel hacker and he will be your best friend away from your home by enabling your access to a collection of exclusive perks and rewards to use while you are travelling.

1. AlexFinds Pitch Deck
OTA Expert Inc, Los Angeles / California
Don’t search for hotels, just ask Alex.

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PROBLEM
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✓ Finding & booking a satisfactory hotel stay online
requires a tedious and long process of search.
✓ In popular destinations, finding a good deal among
virtually endless options becomes frustrating.
✓ Especially for the on-the-go millennials with limited time
and resources to spend, the current online hotel-booking
process is broken.

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SOLUTION
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✓ 24/7 free access to best
hotel deals for any place,
date and budget.
An AI-powered travel concierge service that’s accessed via sms, twitter, email and mchat.
✓ Get rid of ‘search’ step
and save a lot of time.
✓ Leverage perks & rewards
like ride-sharing credits and
airline miles.

4. Of all US Adults
81%
Uses OTAs (193M)
HotelTonight
11m
Active Users
Hipmunk.com
130,000
Unique visitors per month
$50B
24-44 Years Old
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MARKET SIZE
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Meta-Search Market

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PRODUCT
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BUSINESS MODEL
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✓ up to 8% commission on
hotel & flights bookings
Commission-based Freemium + Subscription-based Premium
✓ $4B Target Market for
hotel & flight bookings
✓ Monthly subscription for
premium concierge & full
service hotel bookings

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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
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✓ Proprietary value-based hotel deal meta-search engine
that finds best hotel deals via big data analytics
✓ Proprietary algorithm that analyzes guest reviews and
personalise hotel offers ranked by their cost-utility ratio
✓ Natural Language Processing to recognize user requests
and auto-respond them with top hotel & flight deals.
✓ Social Media powered service option that converts
interested users into members and customers.

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FOUNDING TEAM
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KAMER ALI YUKSEL
CEO/CTO
PhD-Level Computer Scientist
T-Labs & Microsoft Research
OZGE YUKSEL
CTO/CDS
Senior Data Scientist
MSc, Bioengineering
ASAF ONUR KESER
CGO/COO
Hospitality Marketing & Revenue
Consultant, Growth Hacker

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ADVISORS
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PROF DR SAHIN ALBAYRAK
Founder/Chairman of DAI-Labor, Board
Member of Deutsche Telekom Innovation
Laboratories, Order of Merit from Germany
PROF DR AYTUL ERCIL
Founder of VISCERA Inc, VISTEK ISRA-Vision Inc,
REBUSLABS INC, Received EUREKA Innovation,
Endeavor & Veuve Clicquot Entrepreneur Awards
PROF DR CIHAN COBANOGLU
Hospitality & Tourism Leadership (CHTL) at USFSM
Director of the M3 Centre for Hospitality Technology