Desti

Desti
FoundedNovember 2011[citation needed]
FounderNadav Gur
(Founder & CEO)
Imri Goldberg
(Founder & CTO)
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California
ProductsPersonalized guide book
ParentSRI International[1]
Websitewww.desti.com

Desti is a travel guide app and a spin-off of SRI International that uses SRI's CALO artificial intelligence technology (the basis for Apple's Siri) to help users plan trips.[2] The app went to public beta in November 2012.[3]

The company's app allows users to search a destination and filter by a variety of categories, and save the result as a collection.[4] Desti was a finalist in the 2013 SXSW Accelerator.[5] As of early 2013, Desti had raised around $2 million in seed funding, primarily from Horizons Ventures.[4]

  1. ^ "Ventures: Desti". SRI International. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
  2. ^ Ha, Anthony (2012-11-08). "Plan Your Next Trip With Desti, A Conversational iPad App Spun Out From Siri-Creator SRI". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
  3. ^ Grant, Rebecca (2012-11-08). "Siri's sister Desti is a virtual tour guide to answer all your travel queries". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
  4. ^ a b Markowitz, Eric (2013-02-28). "Coolest Mobile Tech Companies to Check Out at SXSW". Inc. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
  5. ^ "SXSW Accelerator 2013 Finalists". South by Southwest. Archived from the original on 2013-02-26. Retrieved 2013-05-27.