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Dextr AI Raises $6.7M to Expand Its Hotel Agents
Dextr AI raised a $6.7 million seed round led by Elevation Capital, with Foundation Capital participating. The San Francisco startup plans to use the funding to hire engineers, expand software integrations and build more agents for hotel op
AI.info Team ·
One hotel using Dextr AI’s voice agent Daisy handles between $100,000 and $300,000 a month in bookings through the system, CEO Sajid Shariff told Crunchbase News. On September 24, the San Francisco startup announced a $6.7 million seed round to expand the agents it sells to hotels and other hospitality operators.
Elevation Capital led the round, with Foundation Capital participating. Dextr plans to put the money toward hiring engineers who work directly with customers, adding software integrations and developing more agents. The financing is the company’s first institutional round, according to Crunchbase News.
From guest messages to hotel operations
Dextr began with Alfred, an agent that answers guest questions and assists with check-ins and check-outs. After deploying it at hotels, the company added Daisy, which handles incoming calls and reservations. Its products have since expanded into group bookings and staff management, with the aim of linking tasks across a property.
For example, when a guest declines housekeeping, information from a guest-management agent could reach an operations agent and help adjust staff schedules. Dextr also describes a late-arrival workflow in which Daisy checks a reservation and provides entry instructions while Alfred handles the guest’s arrival. Shariff said some properties could use agents to cover late check-ins instead of staffing an overnight front-desk shift; he estimated that shift can cost $70,000 to $80,000 a year in a market such as California.
“Every property, every operation is different in this space,”
Sajid Shariff, CEO of Dextr AI, speaking to Crunchbase News
Doss puts a command layer over the agents
Alongside the funding, Dextr announced Doss Gen 1, a command layer that lets hospitality employees direct its AI agents by text or voice. The company says the system includes role-based permissions, an audit trail and controls intended to keep operations consistent across a portfolio. Shariff told Crunchbase News that employees can “call it,” talk to it or text it, rather than learn a new sequence of software steps.
Dextr says its agents handle more than 1 million interactions a month across hundreds of properties. Its customers include independent hotels and properties operating under Hilton, Wyndham, Best Western and IHG brands, as well as reservation centers, vacation rentals and outdoor hospitality businesses. The company’s reported customer base ranges from a 21-room property to one with 550 rooms.
Growth claims come with undisclosed revenue
Dextr charges subscriptions based on property size and the agents deployed, with usage-based fees for some agents, Shariff told Crunchbase News. He said annual recurring revenue had grown about 20% to 30% month over month, but declined to provide revenue, profitability or valuation figures. Those growth rates are company-reported; the funding announcement does not disclose the round’s valuation.
The company says it spent much of last year running pilots before growth accelerated in the spring. Its team has grown from three people to 21, according to Crunchbase News. The new funding is earmarked for more customer-facing engineers, broader integrations and additional agents—work that will test whether Dextr can extend its booking and guest-service tools into connected hotel operations.