Hot 25 Startups 2019: Arise Travel

At some point, a blockchain-based solution for hotel reservations and distribution is going to break out from beyond the distributed ledger-led hype and take the market forward in a meaningful way.

With a former head of global operations at Airbnb as an investor and a management team with plenty of experience in hospitality, Arise has the potential to push itself and the concept ahead to a point where it cannot be ignored.

Goals for 2019

Over the next year, Arise hopes to gain traction as a more flexible and robust peer-to-peer connectivity solution for industry players that have been relying on existing intermediaries for connectivity.

It intends to work with enough distribution partners to reach a point where hotels pressure their PMS, CRS or channel manager to connect to the network so they can start bypassing intermediaries to increase their margins.

• Founded: 2017
• Team size: 4
• Funds raised: $500,000
• Website: Arise Travel

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