Eli S.

Short Term Rental Founder at Lahaina Studio & Global Highlander

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
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Hospitable is the short-term rental industrys premier super app, empowering hosts and property managers to streamline operations, grow their businesses, and reclaim valuable time. Initially launched in 2016 as a time-saving PMS, Hospitable has evolved into a powerful toolkit that goes beyond traditional property management. The platform enables hosts at every scale to automate guest messaging with AI, optimize nightly rates, simplify rental agreements and deposits, coordinate teams, and confidently launch direct booking websites with built-in payments and property protection. Hospitable supports tens of thousands of hosts worldwide, having automated nearly 25 million messages and processed $4.6 billion in reservation income in 2024. Hosts use Hospitable to answer 90% of guest messages with AI-powered automated messaging, to automate their team notifications so they never miss a clean, and to avoid double bookings with a synchronized calendar across booking channels. Hospitable allows hosts to build their own direct booking website with many of the safeguards you would find in a 3rd party OTA and to integrate with popular 3rd party online travel agencies (Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com).
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2021
Hospitable is the short-term rental industrys premier super app, empowering hosts and property managers to streamline operations, grow their businesses, and reclaim valuable time. Initially launched in 2016 as a time-saving PMS, Hospitable has evolved into a powerful toolkit that goes beyond traditional property management. The platform enables hosts at every scale to automate guest messaging with AI, optimize nightly rates, simplify rental agreements and deposits, coordinate teams, and confidently launch direct booking websites with built-in payments and property protection. Hospitable supports tens of thousands of hosts worldwide, having automated nearly 25 million messages and processed $4.6 billion in reservation income in 2024. Hosts use Hospitable to answer 90% of guest messages with AI-powered automated messaging, to automate their team notifications so they never miss a clean, and to avoid double bookings with a synchronized calendar across booking channels. Hospitable allows hosts to build their own direct booking website with many of the safeguards you would find in a 3rd party OTA and to integrate with popular 3rd party online travel agencies (Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com).
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2013
Student Associate
Jan 2013
Indiana University Bloomington is the flagship residential, research-intensive campus of Indiana University. Its academic excellence is grounded in the humanities, arts and sciences, and a range of highly ranked professional programs. Founded in 1820, the campus serves more than 42,000 undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in more than 300 disciplines. Widely recognized for its global and international programs, outstanding technology and historic limestone campus, IU Bloomington serves as a global gateway for students and faculty members pursuing issues of worldwide significance. IU Bloomington facts: • Indiana Universitys flagship campus • Enrolls approx. 42,000 students • More than 350,000 alumni around the world • Nationally ranked and recognized schools for graduate and undergraduate studies, including the Kelley School of Business, Maurer School of Law, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Jacobs School of Music • Member of the Big Ten Conference • Nationally ranked NCAA sports teams with 24 national championships • More than 650 student organizations • Comprehensive perspective to education with more than 180 majors • Located in one of America’s greatest college towns
2012
Student Associate
Aug 2012
Conservation Law Center provides legal counsel without charge to conservation organizations, works to improve conservation law and policy, and offers law students clinical experience in the practice of law and the professions public service tradition.
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