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Chaty AI nets $1.15M seed to grow travel AI assistant

What's the deal? Chaty AIDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised a $1.15 million seed round to expand its conversational AI assistant for travel experiences.

Alongside the funding, it launched a website chatbot built on the same conversational AI technology that powers its voice assistant.

Why now? The raise, announced in June 2026, gives Chaty AI capital to scale as travellers increasingly turn to AI tools to plan and book experiences.

Launching the chatbot at the same time lets the company put its technology in front of customers across more touchpoints.

What could go wrong? The travel AI space is crowded, with established booking platforms and well-funded startups racing to embed assistants of their own.

A $1.15 million seed is modest, so Chaty AI will need to show traction quickly to compete.

The signal: Chaty AI started life handling inbound calls with AI-powered answering and booking, so the new website chatbot marks a deliberate move beyond voice into text — broadening an early-stage product into a multi-channel assistant just as travellers grow accustomed to conversational tools across the booking journey.

Read more: PhocusWire

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