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Lance Secures $5.0M Seed Round

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Hotels looking to offload routine tasks to AI agents just got a boost, as Lance, a YC W26 alum, announced it has closed a $5.0M Seed funding round. The startup builds autonomous AI agents that can answer calls, close sales, and run operations, allowing hotel teams to focus on guest experience.

Its technology, already trusted by over 50 hotels across major brands like Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt, navigates existing hotel software and handles complex multi-step tasks. The investment round drew support from Y Combinator, SV Angel, executives from OpenAI and Expedia, and major hotel owners.

Behind every hotel front desk is a system that technically works and operationally lies. Phones ring, requests stack, staff improvise, and somewhere between intention and execution, things slip.

A guest asks for a towel and the request takes a scenic route through 3 conversations, 2 systems, and 1 missed detail that did not need to be missed.Caleb Chan, CEO, Gavin Brennen, COO, and Gatik Trivedi, CTO, did not walk into hospitality expecting elegance. They found friction wearing a uniform. So they built Lance (YC W26), and the name plays it straight. This is not about layering software on

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