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GuruHotel

AI-native direct booking infrastructure for global hospitality

GuruHotel is building the AI-native booking protocol that will power direct hotel reservations in the next decade, effectively becoming "Stripe for hotel bookings" and ending OTAs' $370B stranglehold on hospitality distribution. For 25 years, hotel ecommerce has been broken. Independent hotels lack the infrastructure to sell directly online, forcing them to pay OTAs 20-40% commissions on 40-60% of their bookings. Hotel websites don't convert (<0.5% vs. 5-10% in modern ecommerce), booking engines redirect users, payments are fragmented, and inventory is trapped in legacy PMS systems. More critically: AI agents cannot book hotels directly today. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, none can complete a hotel transaction end-to-end because inventory isn't exposed in a machine-readable format. GuruHotel has built the complete solution: a full-stack ecommerce platform (website + native booking engine + checkout + payments + AI-ready APIs) that integrates directly with hotel PMS systems, enabling both humans and AI agents to book directly.
Active Founders
Jorge Flores Acevedo
Jorge Flores Acevedo
Founder
Hospitality Professional with over 10 years of experience in E-commerce, Revenue Management and Online Distribution for Hotels and Vacation Rentals. Broad experience managing overall sales for properties in Mexico and the Caribbean with a deep understanding of booking engines, channel managers, price comparison and revenue management tools.
Josue Gio 🔥
Josue Gio 🔥
Founder
Cofounder at @GuruHotel (YCW20). Angel Investor in +40 LATAM startups.
Stiven Martinez
Stiven Martinez
Founder
I make digital products. I am based in Medellín, Colombia. Brands and UI / UX designer, frontend developer lead and co-founder of GuruHotel, Inc.
GuruHotel
Founded:2020
Batch:Winter 2020
Team Size:12
Status:
Active
Location:Mexico City, Mexico