Pinktada

A primary and secondary marketplace for hotel rooms, architected on tokenization. We are using the utilitarian aspects of NFTs to improve hotel distribution

  • Stage Product In Market
  • Industry Travel
  • Location Houston, TX, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded August 2020
  • Employees 28
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website pinktada.com

Company Summary

Pinktada is a primary & secondary marketplace for hotel rooms. We treat non-refundable hotel reservations as strings of room/date specific single-night tokens and give travelers the right to sell/trade/transfer tokens on our marketplace to get the best trip at the best price. We combine this with both a Proof of Attendance NFT and an immersive UX to help travelers "teleport" from room to room and book directly from a 3D space.

Team

  • Lyon Hardgrave
    CEO and Co-Founder

    Founder, VP Product and Business Development of VAKT, the largest blockchain startup in the energy space, with a valuation above $100MM.
    Physical & financial energy trader and data scientist at Glencore, the New York Fed, Hartree, and UBS.
    BS, Environmental Engineering, Rice; MBA, Finance, Wharton School

  • Rama Pakala
    Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

  • Rana Basu
    Head of Product and Co-Founder

    Founder of Ondiflo – a blockchain platform for logistics services automation
    Co-founded software startups in Switzerland (minerals and metals), India (agriculture and chemicals) and Singapore (trade finance)
    Successfully delivered enterprise and trading systems in US, EU, Middle East and Asia
    BE in Power Plant Engineering, MBA from Ohio State

  • Mark Gordon
    Chief Hospitality Officer and Co-Founder

    Hotel developer. Developed the Baccarat Hotel in New York City.
    CEO, Intrinsic Hotel Capital
    Partner, Tribeca Associates

  • Ilana Grossman
    Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder

    Principal - B2Both.com
    Head of Marketing - Artsy
    Chief Marketing Officer - Gust

  • Darden Bateau
    CFO and Co-Founder

    Darden was the CFO of $7B/yr Astra Oil Company and he was the Chief Risk Officer of the $20B/yr Transcor Astra Group. More recently, Darden has worked with RunSure Partners, a venture group organized to inject capital and management expertise into early stage companies. Previously, Darden was Senior Manager with Deloitte & Touche, VP at the Principal Financial Group and Interest Rate Risk Manager with Bank of America. Cum Laude Acctng UT Dallas.

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