• Elude

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2021

  Elude is a mobile travel discovery app that prioritizes budget-first search and presents combined flight and hotel packages rather than showing one or the other. The platform features a personalized onboarding experience that customizes trip packages and suggests future travel based on user preferences. Since launching in August, Elude has attracted over 25,000 sign-ups, with many searches coming from the coasts, Colorado and Texas. The company plans to hire engineers to support feature rollouts and is building a web version and an Android app in the coming months. Product roadmap items include improved personalization to maximize recommendations and expanding beyond flight and hotel offerings. Elude is also expanding marketing efforts and plans to introduce paid advertising. Elude is a budget-first travel discovery mobile app that presents personalized flight and hotel packages based on users' budgets, time frames and trip preferences. The Los Angeles-based platform taps the same flight and hotel databases used by other online travel companies and only suggests hotels rated 3.5 stars and above. Founders Alex Simon (CEO) and Frankie Scerbo (CMO) conceived the idea three years ago after struggling to find trips within a set budget. Prior to the public launch the product was in private beta and amassed about 40,000 people on its waitlist. Elude launched its mobile app to help bridge users from “look mode” to “book mode” more quickly by revealing budget-feasible destinations users might not otherwise consider. The company plans to use the $2.1M in seed funding to advance technology, marketing, operations and customer support.

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