Portier Technologies
Portier provides mobile guest engagement tools for the luxury hospitality sector; enabling clients to improve revenue, guest satisfaction and reduce opex.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Mobile
- Location Hong Kong
- Currency USD
- Founded November 2016
- Employees 30
- Incorporation Type C-corp
- Website goportier.com
Company Summary
Portier provides mobile guest solutions for the global hotel market. The Portier service offering is built around a custom smartphone placed in guest rooms providing guests with unlimited data connectivity, a simple interface to engage with hotel Concierge and the ability to instantly book hotel services.
With the industry's highest usage rate and a data-driven marketing platform, Portier is the only guest amenity that drives bottom-line growth.
Team
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Co-Founder- Former Head of Hospitality at Hong Kong- based Tink Labs - led the company from 5k to 150k units deployed in under 18 months
- Former Head of Sales & Marketing at London-based Managed IT Services startup Netforte (sold for $25M)
- Financed studies through an import-export fashion business, generating annual net profits of $70,000 (from 5 days of work per week)
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Co-Founder- Previously served as Managing Director, Dow Jones Asia & Publisher The Wall Street Journal Asia
- Managed 700 employees across APAC
- Former Marketing Director at PC Magazine Group
- Held senior product & sales positions in NYC, London and Hong Kong
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CTO- 5x Serial Entrepreneur (Portier Technologies, iOS Bootcamp, CodeTribe, CodeMind and Startit Centar)
- Ivan has been serving as Portier's CTO since our company's inception.
In addition to managing tech strategy and staff, his active involvement in EE's start-up community and technical faculties, ensures that Portier has terrific access to technical talent. -
Head of Development- Senior Database and Software Architect
- SCRUM Master with 10+ years of programming experience in Java (Spring & Spring Boot)
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Head of Partnerships- Former Vice Chairman of GSMA, the worldwide association for mobile telcos
- Former senior mgmt of Hutchison Telecommunications
- 25 years plus of telco experience, product, P&L and partnership management
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Country Director - China- Joern relocated from Germany to China more than a decade ago as part of an expansive World Bank program focused on China's national banking and loan sectors.
- Joined Bank of Taizhou, where Joern redeveloped the bank's small business lending practices, contributing to the bank's highly lauded loan origination process and overall business profitability.
- Presently serves as an SOSV mentor, which is where Joern was introduced to Portier.
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COOOlivier is an Award-winning Commercial, Operations and General Management Senior Executive. As a savvy and motivated leader, he is driven by results and high performance.
His track record is proven and recognized by industry peers. It is built on a robust strategic planning and detailed hands-on execution expertise required to manage $110M Asia P&L, and solid collaborative leadership skills to motivate and grow a +200 cross-functional team.
Advisors
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William Bao BeanUnconfirmed
Juliana LiuUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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SOSVUnconfirmed
500 Startups VietnamUnconfirmed
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