Exclusive: From Booking Calls To Late Check-Ins, Dextr AI Raises $6.7M For Hotel AI Agents

figure — when Sajid Shariff returned to the Bay Area in 2024, he reconnected with people he knew from his years working in hospitality. He asked what had changed since he left the industry during the pandemic.

The answer, he said, was that hotels were still challenged by rising labor costs, staffing gaps and pressure to bring in more revenue. So Shariff offered to build an AI agent for a couple of properties. The first, called Alfred, answered guest questions and helped with check-ins and check-outs. Within 90 days, he said, online reviews improved at both properties. He then began deploying it at more hotels, before deciding that guest messaging was only one part of the opportunity. That work led him to team up with Scott Arnold to start Dextr AI, the San Francisco startup they founded in July 2025. The company is now emerging from stealth with $6.7 million in seed funding to build agents that handle reservations, guest requests, staff coordination and other hotel tasks. Elevation Capital led the raise, with participation from Foundation Capital. The round marks Dextr’s first institutional financing. From guest requests to bookings Scott Arnold, CTO, and Sajid Shariff, CEO, co-founders of Dextr AI. (Courtesy photo) After early guest management deployments, Dextr turned to incoming calls with a voice reservations agent called Daisy. If a caller has a question about a reservation or something they can’t find on a booking site, answering it could lead to a booking, Shariff found. As hotels began using Daisy, he realized that the phone calls were “leading to revenue.” In fact, today, one large hotel that Dextr works with handles $100,000 to $300,000 a month in bookings through the voice agent, according to Shariff. Dextr has since expanded into agents for group bookings, staff management and other work. Its goal is to connect those agents so information gathered in one part of a hotel can prompt action in another.