Otto provides an AI-powered travel assistant that lets users make flight and hotel bookings through natural-language queries and remembers user preferences and past trips. The product routes complex cases to human agents at Direct Travel when the bot cannot complete a booking. The company is fine-tuning off-the-shelf AI models with its own data and aims to keep model costs below affiliate revenue per booking. Otto is integrating with partners like Direct Travel and Spotnana to access richer flight and hotel data for more customized results. Management plans an alpha release to select U.S. participants in September, a beta by the end of the year, and wider availability in early 2025. Otto has raised $6 million in seed funding to pay for product development and engineering hires, which the company says provides roughly a two-year run rate.

Total raised

$6M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Aug 2024