Debuting as a SaaS platform primarily targeted for now at retailers, or those in the travel and hospitality space, app publishers can gather data from the sensors on a smartphone in order to better understand who is using their app or site and what that person is doing in order to personalize the experience.
Digital innovation is shaking up the hospitality industry, from concierge smartphone apps to smart keyless entry.
The team is made up of Haris Amin, a software engineer at Dailyburn; Dan Karney, a software engineer by day at the digital audio ad network TargetSpot; Raquel Hernandez, a full-stack software developer who's working as a senior technologist in an innovation lab making mobile apps for the hospitality industry; and Justin Isaf, former director of community for the Huffington Post.
Signing up established partners is always a challenge for a new app in the hospitality and restaurant industry, and these well-known brands give Hooch major credibility in an industry where apps come and go even faster than new restaurants and bars do.
On the host side, the mobile app underlines new hospitality standards that it's trying to put forward, thanks to new head of hospitality Chip Conley.
Driver services, delivery services, food preparation and hospitality being dispatched and coordinated by apps is simply the rising middle class of the developing world in the process of going mobile.
He is a co-founder of Airbnb, a company that ushers hospitality industry into our own homes using apps.
That includes short-term rental startups, travel and tourism apps, marketplaces for "experiences" and other travel or hospitality tech platforms.
Canvas offers specialized apps for logistics, healthcare, retail, wholesale distribution, government, education, hospitality and manufacturing.
