Signalbase · May 2026
Signalbase covered Lance's $5.0M seed round, citing Y Combinator and SV Angel and describing the company as an AI agent platform for hotels.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Lance is a YC W26, San Francisco-based AI startup that sells an autonomous operations platform for hotels: AI agents handle guest calls, SMS/email, reservations, work orders, housekeeping coordination, and sales follow-up across existing hotel systems without custom integrations. Public profiles show a small on-site team and a demo-led B2B offering; funding disclosures are inconsistent across sources, with older public profiles showing $625K and later company announcements describing a $5M seed round.
Primary product
AI-powered hotel operations platform with a Receptionist AI Agent, Sales AI Agent, and Lance Pad
Founded
2026
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
10-20
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI hospitality operations software
Offices
2 Hawkins Lane, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
enterprise software
AI agent platform
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$5.6M
Latest round
Seed · Apr 2026
Latest amount
$5M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & COO
Gatik Trivedi
Co-Founder & CTO
Chief of Staff
Founding Product Manager
Vinita Chanpura
Founding SPL
Taylor Jacobs
Investor & Strategic Advisor
Work & culture
Fast-moving, operator-focused, on-site San Francisco team building for hotel operators; hiring spans engineering, product, and go-to-market, and the product narrative emphasizes shipping end-to-end automation for legacy hotel workflows rather than adding another dashboard.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public job posts show salary bands plus equity for some roles: Software Engineering Intern at $6K-$8K/month; Founding Software Engineer at $100K-$170K plus 0.30%-0.70% equity; Founding Solutions Engineer at $100K-$120K plus 0.10%-0.20% equity; Product Manager at $200K-$260K; Product Marketing Manager at $140K. Roles are posted as full-time and on-site in San Francisco.
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; demo-led B2B sales
Differentiators
- —Computer-use agents that operate existing hotel software visually
- —No custom APIs or vendor integrations required
- —Handles guest communication and completes tasks end-to-end
- —Voice, SMS, email, and vision in one workflow
- —Lance Pad for real-time property coordination
- —Claims to work with legacy systems other AI tools cannot touch
Technology
Twilio
LiveKit
OpenAI
Figma
React
CSS
JavaScript
Python
HTML
Git
Customers
Hotel groups in the U.S.
More than 50 hotels
Marriott-branded hotels
Hilton-branded hotels
Hyatt-branded hotels
Hospitality operators and hotel management groups
Competitors
Canary Technologies
legacy hotel PMS / CRS / task-management software
other hotel guest-messaging and operations platforms
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
18.3K
Latest news
DevCuration · May 2026
DevCuration described Lance's seed round and framed the product as automating guest-request capture, work order routing, and staff coordination for hotels.
Traded: Venture Capital on LinkedIn · Apr 2026
This LinkedIn post summarized Lance's $5M seed, its founders, investor mix, and deployment across dozens of hotels.
Y Combinator on LinkedIn · Apr 2026
YC announced Lance had raised over $5M to build hotel-operations agents and said the product was already working with hotel brands and hiring across engineering, product, and GTM.
Y Combinator · Feb 2026
YC introduced Lance as an AI agent platform for hotel operations, highlighting autonomous guest communication, sales workflows, and on-property execution across major hotel brands.
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