Desti

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Desti
FoundedNovember 2011[ citation needed ]
Founder Nadav Gur
(Founder & CEO)
Imri Goldberg
(Founder & CTO)
Headquarters
ProductsPersonalized guide book
Parent SRI International [1]
Website www.desti.com

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. [2] The app went to public beta in November 2012. [3]

The company's app allows users to search a destination and filter by a variety of categories, and save the result as a collection. [4] Desti was a finalist in the 2013 SXSW Accelerator. [5] As of early 2013, Desti had raised around $2 million in seed funding, primarily from Horizons Ventures. [4]

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References

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