Zerolook builds a machine-learning flight-shopping API that predicts itinerary prices for airlines, online travel agencies, metasearch services, and AI travel agents.

Founders

• Simone Lini · CEO & co-founder
  He was previously Head of Partnerships for Google Travel, where he led Google Flights' OTA and metasearch partnerships across EMEA, and before Google founded Waynaut, which was acquired by Lastminute.com, where he later served as Chief Commercial and Product Officer for Metasearch.
• George Hadjiyiannis · CTO & co-founder
  He was previously VP of Product at Kayak and has an engineering and product leadership background spanning Google, NVIDIA, and eBay; the company also states that he holds an MIT Computer Science PhD.

Business model

Zerolook sells usage-based access to its B2B flight-shopping API, charging for search/pricing queries after a free quota while leaving booking and distribution fees to customers' existing partners.

Total raised

€1.6 million (CHF 1.5 million / about $1.9 million) · as its sources put it, more than the rounds on record