Travel Startups Incubator® Acquires Equity Stake in Photo Mapping Technology Streetography

Travel Startups Incubator® (TSI) is pleased to announce Streetography as its newest portfolio company. Streetography’s “place discovery,” mapping technology, helps increase travel booking conversions and user engagement through a form of social proof, by placing traveler’s photos on a map to visually showcase a destination.


 

Streetography’s Photo Map technology enables travelers to see what a destination’s culture and vibe looks like without being there. Depending on the map zoom level, one can view photos cut out by the boundaries of countries, states/regions, cities, neighborhoods, or blocks.

What’s the neighborhood character in San Francisco’s Chinatown? How about Greenwich Village in New York? Zoom in and take a look. Benefits for travel businesses like hotels and destination management companies include showcasing things to do and sharing photos of fascinating corners around your area, not just the everyday iconic tourist stops.

Streetography’s social feature enables businesses and travelers to upload their own photos, comment, and like users pictures. Businesses that open an Enterprise account with Streetography, receive an online dashboard and admin area for tracking, analytics and managing photos.

You can place the Streetography web widget easily on your website by pasting a few lines of code or white-label the iOS or Android app. The Streetography API will be available in Spring 2018.

Current travel companies using the Streetography web widget include tourism bureaus, DMO’s, tour operators and in-destination travel companies. The Streetography technology will benefit OTA’s, Meta-Search Engines and Travel Agencies as well.

The Silicon Valley startup is lead by successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mike Lanza. “I came up with the idea for Streetography when I was searching for an apartment in Amsterdam on Airbnb for my family,” Lanza said.  “The site had dozens of photos of apartments with the right number of bedrooms, in the right price range, but we weren’t interested in going to Amsterdam to look at the inside of an apartment.  We couldn’t figure out which of the apartments was in the best neighborhood for us.”

Matt Zito, Manager Partner of Travel Startups Incubator®, says, “A picture tells a thousand words.” When we saw the photo mapping technology we knew instantly that we wanted to be a part of the startup with Mike and Streetography. Mapping technology is an integral part of the travel journey starting at the top of the funnel with discovery all the way to in-destination while you’re on your trip. Google Maps has dominated this space with not much advancement in the last few years. We think we can greatly improve the user experience for travelers with Streetography and increase conversions for travel businesses.”

The mapping technology space is heating up. Amadeus Ventures recently invested in AVUXI a global mapping technology company. Similar to Streetography, AVUXI overlays a map displaying the most popular travel destinations inside a city. This helps travelers learn where the best places to visit are located.

Contacts:
CEO, Mike Lanza
mike@streetography.com
http://streetography.com

Nominations Open for EyeforTravel’s Start-Up Travel Awards 2017

Does your travel company have what it takes to succeed in travel?  Is your app or product a key weapon in your battle to win and engage travel consumers?  New travel brands will find out as they battle it out as part of EyeforTravel’s Start-Up Travel awards taking place in San Francisco, April 24th – 25 as part of EyeforTravel’s San Francisco Summit.

Research showed us Travel Startups attracted billions of dollars in funding last year, and the travel booking sector attracted some of the most investment — more than $650 million.

“Start-ups represent a fundamental shift in innovation in travel.  At EyeforTravel we believe that the brands investing and innovating in mobile and new offerings deserve to be recognized”, says Tim Gunstone, MD, EyeforTravel Ltd.

As Charles Ralston from TripStreak said on the previous EyeforTravel Awards “The Start-up Village is a really great value for money, especially for start-ups that can’t typically afford to spend thousands on conference. Bravo to EyeforTravel for pioneering this!”

Travel is being changed by mobile, the sharing economy social media and that constant drive to deliver the best customer experience. Technology is transforming the way travel is sold – providing exciting opportunities to enhance the customer experience, grow loyalty and ancillary revenues.

EyeforTravel’s Start-Up Awards seek to recognize the young brands who are making significant progress for travel – trailblazing the way for others to follow.

With new apps, services and devices hitting the travel market and extra capabilities coming to devices, travel brands cannot sit still and must continue to innovate. EyeforTravel are offering new brands a stage to shout about it!

Previous finalists include FLYR, Seatwizer, FlitWays, Stiya, Biz Airlines, spacebase, tripstr, Grabr, wellobox and more!

The Start-up awards is a day-long event

  • Starting with learning sessions – quizzing travel entrepreneurs on their secrets of success
  • Meet the investors – and see what they look for in a travel start-up
  • Start-up Pitches for the companies that are shortlisted
  • Finalists and Winners announced

To get involved and see if you make the cut you can register today to pitch or just attend the day – learn more here. All entries must be received by February 28th. Find out how to enter your brand and for full terms and conditions

For all awards inquires contact: –
Shreya Ganapathy
Project and Content Director | Eyefortravel
W:  +44 20 7375 7150
shreya@eyefortravel.com