Desti
| Founded | November 2011[1] |
|---|---|
| Founder |
Nadav Gur (Founder & CEO) Imri Goldberg (Founder & CTO) |
| Headquarters | Menlo Park, California |
| Products | Personalized guide book |
Number of employees | 7[1] |
| Parent | SRI International[2] |
| Website |
www |
Desti is a travel guide app and a spin-off of SRI International that uses SRI's CALO artificial intelligence technology (the basis for Apple's Siri) to help users plan trips.[3] The app went to public beta in November 2012.[4]
The company's app allows users to search a destination and filter by a variety of categories, and save the result as a collection.[5] Desti was a finalist in the 2013 SXSW Accelerator.[6] As of early 2013, Desti had raised around $2 million in seed funding, primarily from Horizons Ventures.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Desti". CrunchBase. TechCrunch. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
- ↑ "Ventures: Desti". SRI International. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
- ↑ Ha, Anthony (2012-11-08). "Plan Your Next Trip With Desti, A Conversational iPad App Spun Out From Siri-Creator SRI". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
- ↑ Grant, Rebecca (2012-11-08). "Siri's sister Desti is a virtual tour guide to answer all your travel queries". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Markowitz, Eric (2013-02-28). "Coolest Mobile Tech Companies to Check Out at SXSW". Inc. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
- ↑ "SXSW Accelerator 2013 Finalists". South by Southwest. Retrieved 2013-05-27.