Best Hotel IT Companies in California, United States
The 131 best Hotel IT companies in California, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: FLYR.
Ranked: Best Hotel IT companies in California
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FLYR Developer of an AI-powered platform for travel and transportation industries 50Funding top 17%Moat top 41%Market top 43%Tech top 45% All 11 signals ▾Fundingtop 17% Moattop 41% Markettop 43% Techtop 45% AItop 45% Talentbottom 49% Growthbottom 40% Globalbottom 39% Innovationbottom 32% Patentsbottom 28% Newsbottom 22% Funding: Raised $375M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 5 yrs (1.2/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 6/10 · IP moat: 3 patents rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $375M | 22 mo ago | 598 | Alex Mans Founder & CEO | WordPressSentryMySQL+32 | Top 5M | 3 patents E‑commerce price protection and product conversion verification systems | — |
| 2 | CloudBeds Provider of a platform for hospitality operations, distribution, and marketing | $253M | 55 mo ago | 172 | Richard Castle Cofounder | WordPressSentryZendesk+34 | Top 500k | — | 1 expansion |
| 3 | Duetto AI and cloud-based provider of revenue management software solutions for the hospitality industry | $143M | 100 mo ago | 84 | — | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+25 | Top 5M | — | 1 partnership |
| 4 | Canary Technologies Provider of enterprise hospitality technology | $95M | 12 mo ago | 44 | S Sawhney Co-Founder | Webflow EcommerceWebflowApple iCloud Mail+27 | Top 100k | — | 3 partnerships |
| 5 | Revinate Cloud- based reputation management solutions for hotels | $52M | 58 mo ago | 55 | Bryson Koehler CEO | WordPressSentryMySQL+25 | Top 1M | — | 3 job openings |
| 6 | INTELITY Cloud-based hotel management solutions | $49M | 30 mo ago | 58 58 → 66 (+14%) | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+38 | Top 10M | 3 patents Access control and visitor management systems for secure building entry | — |
| 7 | Beyond Pricing Vacation rental revenue management platform maximizing profits through dynamic pricing | $44M | 80 mo ago | 203 | Julie Brinkman CEO | SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+36 | Top 1M | — | 2 launchs |
| 8 | LeisureLink Ubuntu's Apache2: Configuring web servers for optimal performance and security | $38M | 125 mo ago | 100 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Bookingpal Distribution & channel management solutions for short-term vacation rentals | $22M | 87 mo ago | 38 | Alex Aydin Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+8 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 10 | Nor1 Cloud technology company providing infrastructure and software solutions globally | $21M | 162 mo ago | 4 | — | — | — | 11 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 11 | Keypr Provider of a unified guest experience platform for the hospitality sector | $20M | 108 mo ago | 60 | — | PythonUIKitDjango+5 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 12 | Safely Provides ID verification solutions for vacation rentals | $20M | 32 mo ago | 43 | Tasso Roumeliotis Founder & CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+32 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 13 | Wheelhouse Web-based revenue management software provider for vacation rentals | $16M | 50 mo ago | 16 | — | SentryNode.jsRadix UI+28 | Top 1M | — | 1 launch · 2 partnerships |
| 14 | The Hotels Network Platform to increase direct booking for hotels | $15M | 72 mo ago | 158 | — | HubSpot CMS HubSalesforceFacebook Login+30 | Top 10M | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 15 | Jurny Provider of AI-powered platform for short-term rental and hotel management | $12M | 14 mo ago | 34 | Luca Zambello Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsPlyrReact+19 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 16 | Akia Offers guest messaging platform | $12M | 21 mo ago | 11 | Evan Chen Founder & CEO | TurbopackApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+26 | Top 5M | — | 1 launch |
| 17 | Relay Robotics Manufacturer of a delivery robot for hotels | $10M | 49 mo ago | 54 | Wade Pfeiffer CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 18 | Hotel Internet Services Business internet and TV services provider | $8M | 123 mo ago | 40 | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+21 | Top 5M | 5 patents Secure automatic deletion of set‑top box media and hotel‑based app authentication | — |
| 19 | Hostfully Vacation rental software empowering hosts to deliver exceptional guest experiences | $7M | 9 mo ago | 82 | Stephan Osmont Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+46 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 20 | HostGPO Provider of web-enabled group purchasing and procurement management solutions for vacation rentals | $6M | 36 mo ago | 25 | Michael Skiles Co-Founder | WebflowStripecore-js+23 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 21 | Senstay SaaS and property management solution provider for vacation rentals | $4M | 126 mo ago | 22 | Jesse Comly CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Hotelsoft Hospitality software solutions for revenue management, business intelligence, and rate shopping | $3M | 119 mo ago | 52 | Abhishek Begerhotta Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Nevotek Operator of IP-based communication platform for multiple businesses | $3M | 276 mo ago | 32 | — | Cart FunctionalityWixSentry+13 | Top 50M | — | 1 partnership |
| 24 | Arise Offers a blockchain-based global distribution system for hotels | $3M | 46 mo ago | 12 | Alex Lamb Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | 3 patents Silicon material production and refinement for photovoltaics and chlorosilane chemicals | — |
| 25 | KYC Hospitality Solutions for hotels | $2M | 81 mo ago | 11 | Dina Yuen Founder & CEO | WebflowZendeskreCAPTCHA+11 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 26 | Anacove Provider of energy management solutions for hotels | $2M | 48 mo ago | 4 | — | HighchartsW3.CSSAngular Material+15 | Top 10M | 6 patents IoT-enabled facility management and occupancy sensing using smart power cords and sensor networks | — |
| 27 | GuruHotel SaaS-driven channel management solutions for hotels | $2M | 54 mo ago | 15 | Jorge Flores Co-Founder & CEO | ContentfulNode.jsRadix UI+23 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 28 | Stayflexi SaaS-driven property management software for the hospitality industry | $2M | 59 mo ago | 50 | Krishna Talasila Co-Founder & CIO | — | — | — | — |
| 29 | Whistle Guest messaging platform transforming hotel communication for enhanced guest experiences | $1M | 70 mo ago | 10 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | Top 10M | 14 patents Proximity detection and wireless provisioning for IoT device interaction and distance estimation | — |
| 30 | Wyndow Content management solution to provide curated local data to hospitality brands | $1M | 119 mo ago | — | Oleg Kaganovich Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 31 | VenueLytics Venue management platform | $648K | 63 mo ago | 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 32 | Lance Developer of an AI voice agent for hotel guest communication | $500K | 5 mo ago | — | Gavin Brennen Co-Founder & COO | TurbopackSentryNode.js+9 | Top 10M | — | 5 job openings |
| 33 | Riviera Provider of AI-powered chatbot solutions for hotels | $500K | 12 mo ago | — | Shaun Lane Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 34 | HostAI AI-based listing automation platform | $500K | 24 mo ago | — | Punn Kam Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 35 | ProhostAI AI powered operating system designed for short-term rental properties and Airbnb hosts | $500K | 24 mo ago | — | Bill Ulammandakh Co-Founder & CEO | TurbopackApple iCloud MailNode.js+23 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 36 | Voyajoy Channel management solutions for vacation rentals | $125K | 125 mo ago | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 37 | HOTELbeat Intelligent hotel operations platform connecting staff, data, and improving efficiency | $125K | 161 mo ago | — | Elvin Lai Ms CFO & Co-Founder & Business Development | — | — | — | — |
| 38 | OneRooftop Chat-based travel assistant for booking vacation rentals | $120K | 130 mo ago | 12 | Chad Brubaker Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 39 | Lynx Home automation software for property managers | $100K | 86 mo ago | 7 | Dipen Gala Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+35 | Top 5M | 22 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 40 | i-Rates Revenue Management Software for hotels | $100K | 174 mo ago | 4 | Vadim Asadov Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Hotel IT companies in California
#1
Series D · San Francisco, California · founded 2017 · 44 employees$95.2Mraised▾
Provider of enterprise hospitality technology
- Jun 2025Series D$80M
- Jun 2024Series C$50M
- Oct 2022Series B$30M
- Feb 2022Series A$15M
#2
Series D · San Francisco, California · founded 2013 · 598 employees$375Mraised▾
Developer of an AI-powered platform for travel and transportation industries. The platform provides offer and order management, shopping cart functionality, and personalized offers. It facilitates cross-airline retailing and seamless servicing. The platform also provides revenue management, customizable reporting, and precision budgeting and forecasting for the hospitality sector.
- Aug 2024Conventional Debt$70M
- Aug 2024Series D$225M
- Sep 2021Series C$150M
- May 2020Series B$12.1M
#3
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2015 · 82 employees$7Mraised▾
Vacation rental software empowering hosts to deliver exceptional guest experiences. This is a SaaS platform offering property management solutions and digital guidebooks to automate and simplify property management operations. It provides tools to earn more, save time, and elevate the guest experience. Features include direct booking websites, unified inbox, AI messaging, central calendar, channel manager, and owner portal with financial reports. The platform offers integrations with listing sites, online travel agencies, and other software partners for cleaning, task management, smart locks, and pricing. It aims to help vacation rental companies automate, integrate, operate, and scale their short-term rental businesses. The platform also focuses on sustainability and community empowerment.
- Sep 2025Seed—
- May 2022Seed$4M
- Apr 2019Seed$1M
- 2017Seed—
#4
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2017 · 34 employees$12.4Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered platform for short-term rental and hotel management. The platform offers tools for managing guest communications, reservations, revenue, and housekeeping. It provides features such as a unified inbox, AI-driven insights, and automated review responses. The platform also includes a guest application, digital guidebooks, and a booking engine.
- Apr 2025Angel—
- Aug 2023Series A$2M
- Oct 2021Series A$9.5M
#5
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2025$500Kraised▾
Developer of an AI voice agent for hotel guest communication. The agent handles guest interactions across multiple channels and manages hotel operations through natural language. It answers guest requests, integrates with existing systems, and completes tasks. The agent navigates property management software and reservation platforms. It executes workflows from reservations to service requests.
- Jan 2026Seed$500K
#6
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2018 · 11 employees$12Mraised▾
Offers guest messaging platform. It offers a text messaging tool to enhance the guest experience. The solution provides contactless communication, scheduled messaging services, hotel reputation management service, automated replies, and many more.
#7
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2024$500Kraised▾
Provider of AI-powered chatbot solutions for hotels. The company offers AI-powered chat agents for managing customer experiences. It includes AI operators for answering customer calls for hotel reservations and service requests.
- 2025Seed$500K
#8
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2007 · 58 employees$49Mraised▾
Cloud-based hotel management solutions. The platform offers features such as digital check-in and check-out, guest engagement, staff management, in-room services, guest marketing, content management, etc. It offers ERP software for hotel, casino, cruise, and luxury residential markets.
- Dec 2023Series A$5M
- Jan 2019Series A$44M
#9
Series D · San Diego, California · founded 2012 · 172 employees$253Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for hospitality operations, distribution, and marketing. The platform offers property management, payment processing, and channel management. It also provides tools for guest communication, digital check-in, and revenue intelligence. The platform integrates with various partners and offers customer support resources.
- Nov 2021Series D$150M
- Mar 2020Series C$82M
- Jun 2017Series B$9M
- Jul 2016Series A$3.1M
#10
Series A · Emeryville, California · founded 2011 · 43 employees$20Mraised▾
Provides ID verification solutions for vacation rentals. Its products include a mobile location service available via a family map, sprint family locator, and a safe drive, carrier-grade, patent-pending safe-driving service and safely phone controls, mobile phone remote control, and usage analytics service that helps parents stay informed about kids’ social network activities.
- Oct 2023Series A$8M
- Oct 2022Series A$12M
- Jul 2018Seed—
#11
Series D · Palo Alto, California · founded 2009 · 55 employees$51.5Mraised▾
Cloud- based reputation management solutions for hotels. It offers guest communication solutions to help hotels to improve guest experiences. The platform ingests data from multiple sources, including property management systems, point of sale systems, loyalty platforms, central reservation systems, and more. It uses advanced machine learning technology to synthesize, merge, and clean the data into one secure, rich guest database.
- Jul 2021Series D—
- 2020Conventional Debt$4M
- May 2020Series D$8M
- 2019Conventional Debt$15M
#12
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2012 · 84 employees$143.3Mraised▾
AI and cloud-based provider of revenue management software solutions for the hospitality industry. Product offerings include GameChanger, a yield management solution for dynamic pricing, ScoreBoard, financial forecasting & reporting solution, and BlockBuster, a unified sales & revenue management platform. Clients include Village Hotels, Banyan Tree, Melia Hotels International, and others.
- Feb 2018Series D$80M
- Nov 2015Series C$30.1M
- Jul 2014Series B$21M
- May 2013Series A$10.1M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Hotel IT coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.