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Dan Christian

Founder & Host @Travel Trends Podcast, the #1 B2B travel podcast globally. Keynote speaker and trusted advisor to the leaders shaping the future of travel.

📍 Canada🔄 Updated November 2026💼 5 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
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Board Member
Oct 2025
The Travel Coach Network brings together passionate travelers who are experiencing a personal or professional transition and is stepping into a new version of themselves where they seek to align their life and travel experiences, passions, and desire to help others use travel as a tool for transformation, healing, personal growth, and purpose-driven living. Through our certification programs, we equip them with the skills, confidence, and community to become a Certified Travel Coach, or incorporate travel coaching into their current business model, so that they can have an authentic and aligned business that brings them financial and personal freedom.
Investor
Jul 2024
We provide an integrated communication and location-sharing platform that connects your travelers, guides, and office staff. Our platform streamlines and centralizes all communication via Email, WhatsApp, SMS, OTAs, Agencies, and/or Push Notifications within a fully-branded mobile app. We ensure that all travelers can be reached anytime, anywhere. We automate the distribution of welcome messages, reminders, waivers, on-trip documents, tipping, surveys, review collection, upsells, cross-sells, vehicle-location updates, and more! Our fully-branded mobile app further supports location sharing for pickups and meetups, optional group chat, an interactive itinerary, and a full catalog of your tours so that your travelers can book their next adventure. Please see our website at https://www.touroptima.com for more information about our Communications Platform and Branded Mobile App, including pricing details.
Seed Investor
Jan 2024
GuestOS is the AI Teammate for hospitality, tourism and events. It provides multilingual voice support through a single phone number, giving guests instant access to hotel services, tour bookings and local recommendations. Hotels, tour operators, activity providers and events use GuestOS to reduce staff workload, increase direct bookings and deliver a seamless visitor experience.
early stageHospitality
Seed Investor
Jan 2024
iWander is a vertical AI Agent for the Travel industry. Our plug & play platform allows any travel brand to build their own AI agents and extract value at all stages of the customer journey: increasing pre-booking conversions, post-booking upsells and in-destination engagement. Build your own AI agent at iWander.io, or contact our team for more information!
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2025
Board Member
Oct 2025
The Travel Coach Network brings together passionate travelers who are experiencing a personal or professional transition and is stepping into a new version of themselves where they seek to align their life and travel experiences, passions, and desire to help others use travel as a tool for transformation, healing, personal growth, and purpose-driven living. Through our certification programs, we equip them with the skills, confidence, and community to become a Certified Travel Coach, or incorporate travel coaching into their current business model, so that they can have an authentic and aligned business that brings them financial and personal freedom.
Advisor
Jan 2025
Plug and Play is a global innovation platform founded in Silicon Valley in 2006. We connect the people and organizations that drive technology forward, and turn those connections into real business outcomes. We run accelerator programs, facilitate corporate-startup pilots, invest in early-stage companies, and help governments and institutions build innovation ecosystems. Our network includes corporations, startups, investors, universities, and mentors across more than 20 industries and 60 locations worldwide. Since inception, weve accelerated thousands of startups and invested in over 2,500 companies. Our portfolio includes PayPal, Dropbox, LendingClub, Honey, and N26. Industries we work in: Advanced Manufacturing · Aerospace & Defense · Agtech · Animal Health · Brand & Retail · Crypto & Digital Assets · Deeptech · Energy · Enterprise & AI · Fintech · Food & Beverage · Health · Insurtech · Lifetech · Maritime · Media & Advertising · Medtech · Mobility & Physical AI · New Materials & Packaging · Real Estate & Construction · Semiconductors · Smart Cities · Sportstech · Supply Chain · Sustainability · Travel & Hospitality Where we operate: Americas: Silicon Valley · New York · Los Angeles · Washington D.C. · Detroit · Seattle · São Paulo · Alberta Europe: London · Munich · Stuttgart · Paris · Amsterdam · Barcelona · Madrid · Milan · Turin · Gothenburg · Vienna · Istanbul · Antwerp · Vilnius · Tirana · Yerevan · Tbilisi · Limassol · Tashkent Middle East & Africa: Riyadh · Abu Dhabi · Cairo Asia-Pacific: Tokyo · Osaka · Kyoto · Singapore · Seoul · Shanghai · Beijing · Shenzhen · Jakarta · Kuala Lumpur · Phnom Penh · GIFT City
2024
Investor
Jul 2024
We provide an integrated communication and location-sharing platform that connects your travelers, guides, and office staff. Our platform streamlines and centralizes all communication via Email, WhatsApp, SMS, OTAs, Agencies, and/or Push Notifications within a fully-branded mobile app. We ensure that all travelers can be reached anytime, anywhere. We automate the distribution of welcome messages, reminders, waivers, on-trip documents, tipping, surveys, review collection, upsells, cross-sells, vehicle-location updates, and more! Our fully-branded mobile app further supports location sharing for pickups and meetups, optional group chat, an interactive itinerary, and a full catalog of your tours so that your travelers can book their next adventure. Please see our website at https://www.touroptima.com for more information about our Communications Platform and Branded Mobile App, including pricing details.
Seed Investor
Jan 2024
GuestOS is the AI Teammate for hospitality, tourism and events. It provides multilingual voice support through a single phone number, giving guests instant access to hotel services, tour bookings and local recommendations. Hotels, tour operators, activity providers and events use GuestOS to reduce staff workload, increase direct bookings and deliver a seamless visitor experience.
early stageHospitality
Seed Investor
Jan 2024
iWander is a vertical AI Agent for the Travel industry. Our plug & play platform allows any travel brand to build their own AI agents and extract value at all stages of the customer journey: increasing pre-booking conversions, post-booking upsells and in-destination engagement. Build your own AI agent at iWander.io, or contact our team for more information!
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