Inntelo AI, a pioneering hospitality AI startup, has introduced that famend trade chief Tariq Valani has joined its founding workforce as Co-Founder & Chief Product Innovation Officer.
With greater than 25 years of expertise in hospitality expertise, Valani (pictured) brings deep experience in growing merchandise that improve visitor expertise and operational effectivity. His management will assist Inntelo AI’s mission to assist hospitality and actual property manufacturers make higher use of synthetic intelligence.
Headquartered in London, Inntelo AI is constructing the primary AI-native platform designed to unify visitor expertise, streamline operations, and ship real-time personalisation at scale. It has mixed 4 core techniques into one highly effective AI resolution:
- AI Visitor Expertise – conversational and agentic AI to streamline communication between company and resort groups by way of WhatsApp, telephone, voice and chat.
- AI Operations and Planning – automates housekeeping, upkeep and repair duties with predictive workflows.
- AI Personalisation & Upselling – generates new income with tailor-made provides and in-stay personalisation.
- AI Buyer Knowledge Platform – centralises visitor profiles, first-party information, and loyalty insights.
The appointment of Tariq Valani, who joined Inntelo AI’s advisory board earlier this yr, is a serious growth for a corporation solely based in 2024. He will probably be supporting the corporate’s launch of its full platform because it comes out of stealth mode.
Valani most not too long ago held a senior management position at Accor, the place he consolidated their international technical assist companies and oversaw expertise operations for greater than 5,500 motels throughout 43 manufacturers and 117 nations. He has additionally held senior expertise positions at Fairmont, Mövenpick, and Jumeirah, along with serving as a board member of HFTP, the organisers of HITEC, and being recognised as a number one voice in trade innovation.
Inntelo AI accomplished a pre-seed funding spherical earlier this yr, backed by main enterprise capital buyers together with Antler, Haatch, Look AI Ventures, and the British Enterprise Financial institution. Its tech is now stay throughout Europe and the Center East, powering operations for motels from boutique independents to multinational teams.
Asif Alidina (pictured above), Co-Founder and CEO of Inntelo AI, mentioned: “We’re thrilled to welcome Tariq as a co-founder. His arrival is a robust validation of the product we’ve constructed and our imaginative and prescient. At Inntelo AI, we’re not including one other layer of tech; we’re re-engineering how motels function. Tariq’s expertise in scaling enterprise techniques is already accelerating our mission to ship the subsequent technology of clever, AI-native platforms that empower groups, remodel operations, and redefine the visitor expertise.”
Valani added: “AI is ready to utterly remodel hospitality expertise as we all know it. Legacy platforms that weren’t constructed with AI at their core received’t have the ability to maintain tempo with the calls for of tomorrow’s operators and company. The trade wants a unified, AI-native method to exchange the patchwork of fragmented instruments that exist right now.
“What excites me about Inntelo AI is just not solely the imaginative and prescient, however the tangible outcomes they’ve already achieved, with over a yr of stay deployments delivering real-world influence and learnings. The tempo of innovation right here is extraordinary, and I’m thrilled to assist speed up the adoption of AI throughout hospitality and actual property. Collectively, we now have the chance to set a brand new customary for the trade.”
In addition to its pre-seed spherical, Inntelo AI profitable 2025 has included launching the UK’s first agentic and conversational AI concierge in stay resort operations. The corporate has additionally been invited to affix the celebrated Innovation Hubs at world-leading hospitality colleges, together with EHL in Switzerland and Hotelschool The Hague. In Might 2025, Inntelo AI was awarded the Future Hospitality Summit Startup Award in Riyadh, additional cementing its place as a world chief in AI innovation for hospitality.
