Desti

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Desti
FoundedNovember 2011[ citation needed ]
Founder Nadav Gur
(Founder & CEO)
Imri Goldberg
(Founder & CTO)
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California
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]

References

  1. ↑ "Ventures: Desti". SRI International. Archived from the original on 2013-05-25. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. 1 2 Markowitz, Eric (2013-02-28). "Coolest Mobile Tech Companies to Check Out at SXSW". Inc . Retrieved 2013-05-27.
  5. ↑ "SXSW Accelerator 2013 Finalists". South by Southwest. Archived from the original on 2013-02-26. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
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