StaySmarter, Inc.

We sell hotel rooms online to frequent travelers. They can search across all of the hotel brands AND earn all of their rewards points. No one else can do that.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Travel
  • Location Arlington, VA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded July 2012
  • Employees 6
  • Website staysmarter.com

Company Summary

We are a team of hotel insiders. Industry leaders call us the next generation of online travel agency.

-Our products are in the market with many frequent travelers as customers.
-We sell all US and Canadian hotels via web and mobile.
-We earn revenue on each transaction from the hotels via an agency model.

We are a Delaware C Corp with a formal advisory board. Cooley is our law firm and Aronson is our accounting firm.

Team

  • Founder & COO

    As COO, Humberto is responsible for all accounting, customer support and engagement, and service delivery. His over 20 years at Marriott started in hotel operations and culminated in his running global credit card operations for nearly two dozen hotel brands. Then at RBS he oversaw data security and PCI-DSS compliance for over 150K US-based merchants.

  • Founder & CTO

    As CTO, Tim is responsible for all development and the company’s technology stack. During his nearly 20 years at Marriot, he was one of the key architects who built and maintained the Property Management System (PMS), FOSSE, the technology that runs over 2,600 hotels from the front desk to housekeeping to accounting.

  • Founder & CEO

    As CEO, John is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company and he participates in product and partnership discussions. He started his career as a software developer modeling weapon systems and building training systems around those models. At Marriott he was an IT project manager who ran enterprise and brand technology projects. He served as an Infantry Officer in the Army National Guard.

Advisors

  • Scott A. Bedbury
    Advisor
    Unconfirmed
    Cynthia Young
    Advisor
    Unconfirmed
    Advisor
  • Dale Corirossi
    Advisor
    Unconfirmed
    Carl Wilson
    Advisory
    Unconfirmed
    Robert Gadd
    Advisor
    Unconfirmed
  • Advisor
    Patrick von Schlag
    Advisor
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Scott A. Bedbury
    Unconfirmed
    Joshua E. Petty
    Unconfirmed
    Justin and Preston Miller
    Unconfirmed
  • Jeremy Rohen
    Unconfirmed

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