The engagement platform for travel.
Investment Memo · Pre-Seed · 2026
Industry expertise meets founder experience.
Between us, we've founded and scaled six companies, led operations across global travel businesses, and built software trusted by companies worldwide.
We bring both the domain knowledge and the lived experience to build Wayloop right.
After the booking, travel companies go dark.
Travel companies sell the trip on booking and reservation software. That software was built to take the sale, not to carry the customer through the trip. So once the deposit is paid, the company loses visibility and the guest loses contact. Three things break.
1 · Running the trip
After the sale, the trip runs on spreadsheets, email and WhatsApp. Plans change, the tools don't keep up, and staff burn hours holding it together.
2 · Informing the guest
No single channel to give travellers the right thing at the right time, or to collect what the operator needs back: details, documents, waivers, preferences, before, during and after.
3 · Earning during the trip
The operator holds the customer and the trip data but can't act on either. Guests spend heavily on the road, and the operator can't offer it, book it or take payment for it.
Most of a traveller's spending happens during the trip. Operators see none of it.
The revenue gap is the expensive one. Spending during the trip (tours, meals, activities booked on the day) is the fastest-growing money in travel and the least likely to be booked online. Today it goes to cash and third-party booking sites, not to the operator who owns the customer.
One branded app that delivers four things, at every stage.
A flexible, branded app for the company's customers, sitting on top of the systems they already run. It delivers information, engagement, interaction and upsell at the right moment, and reshapes for each stage of the trip. Drag through to see it.
It sits on top of the company's existing tech and plugs straight into it.
Nothing gets ripped out. Wayloop layers on top of the booking and reservation systems a company already runs, syncs both ways with them, and adds the customer-facing things those systems were never built to do.
platforms leave
Every stage does two jobs: run the logistics, and open a sale.
As the app reshapes through the trip, each stage carries the operations the company needs and a moment to earn. The top row is what keeps the trip running. The bottom row is the revenue that opens up alongside it.
Propose & Book
win & depositPre-Trip
prep & excitementDuring Trip
on the groundPost-Trip
loyalty & growthThe more the guest uses the app, the better it gets.
It starts with the guest using the app. Each action tells Wayloop a little more about them, which makes the next tip or offer a better fit, which gets them using the app more. The longer a guest stays in the app, the more useful it is, for the guest and for the operator.
uses the app
AI enhances the operator's own content.
The operator's own tour content comes first. AI sits alongside it, in the same brand voice, to keep guests engaged and turn more of their trip spending into in-app bookings. AI adds to the operator's content, it is not the product on its own.
Operator content and logistics
The operator's own itinerary, information and tone come first. This is everything the app already runs across the trip.
Guests book and pay inside the app. The operator earns on every sale.
Drive by Wayloop turns the itinerary into turn-by-turn navigation, suggests stops along the route as the guest drives, and takes payment in the app. It does two jobs: it captures the cash sales group operators already make, and it earns money on journeys that earn nothing today.
Two jobs, one product
- Group tours: take the extra sales that already happen in cash, so the operator records and keeps that money.
- Self-drive and campervan: stops to book pop up along the route, earning money on a journey that earns nothing today.
Why it converts
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Plan the journey. Drive the corridor. Watch it curate.
This is the engine behind the self-drive product. Reorder the stops, press play, and change the weather, travel style or time of day. The activities Wayloop surfaces along the route re-rank live, the same way the real app does for a guest on the road.
Every alternative does one or two of these. Only Wayloop does them all.
Carrying the customer through the whole trip takes these four working together: the branded app, full-trip messaging and logistics, AI, and in-app payments. Each competitor type has one or two. None have the set.
| What running the trip takes | Older trip apps | Booking sites (Viator, GetYourGuide) | Operator booking software | Single-feature tools | Wayloop |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build the app a branded app on top of the operator's systems |
Partial | Rival app | Ops only | No | Their brand |
| Run the relationship messaging and logistics across the whole trip |
Basic | No | Pre-trip only | Partial | Full trip |
| Add AI content and recommendations in the operator's voice |
No | No | No | No | Built in |
| Take payments in-app payment during the trip, any payment provider |
No | Own only | Deposit only | No | Any provider |
Two shifts make now the moment to build this.
Until recently this product could not exist for most operators. Two things changed. Booking systems now open their data, so Wayloop can plug in with nothing to rip out. And guest spending has moved onto the phone, where it can finally be captured. The bookable supply to sell against now exists at scale.
Booking systems are opening their data
Booking and reservation systems cannot build everything, so they now let other tools connect. Wayloop plugs in on top, with nothing to rip out and replace.
Spending has moved onto the phone
The share of activity bookings made on a phone went from 11% to 28% since 2019. Most happens on the day, in destination, where it can finally be captured.
800k+ bookable activities, one connection
A single connection now reaches 800k+ activities with live availability. Nothing this large existed before. This is what makes the payments side real.
Booking platforms bring us operators. CobberX brings the activities.
Operators already run on booking platforms, and Wayloop connects to them, so those platforms bring us operators at low cost. On the other side, CobberX gives us the activities operators can sell to guests during the trip.
The product is live, a customer invested, and channels are signed.
A pre-seed investor is betting on three things: can the team build it, will operators want it, and can it reach the market. We have early proof on all three.
Revenue tracks one number: total traveller-days on the platform.
Wayloop earns on every traveller-day: a $1 base fee, plus payment transaction fees targeting around five times that. As operators and trips are added across every sector, revenue scales with total traveller-days. Below: the same model from launch volumes to long-term scale.
Two revenue streams. The payment fees are the larger one.
A small platform fee at $1 per traveller per day makes Wayloop easy to adopt. On top of that, a transaction fee on every payment guests make in the app, targeted at around five times the platform fee and growing with every trip. Example operator: 7,500 travellers a year, 7-day trips, around $1,400 spent in-app per traveller.
Group tours first. The same app then opens events and self-drive.
The product works in any travel sector. We do not need a small slice of a huge market; we need a strong position in a focused one. Group tours are our starting market today, with events and self-drive already proven as the next steps, and the booking platforms bring those operators to us.
Group tours in Australia and the US
Operators running 500 to 10,000 travellers a year on fixed multi-day itineraries. We win them with the logistics tools plus in-app payments. Typical operator: 7,500 travellers, 13 days, $1 a day = $97.5K in platform fees, plus the payments cut on top.
Self-drive trips
Same product. The self-drive numbers earlier in this deck are the reason: campervan guests stay far longer and spend most of their money on the road. Drive by Wayloop is in testing with New Zealand operators.
Events: sports and education
Same product for events. Education and team products are in testing with launch partners, with a natural move into school and university trips and fan travel.
This round funds 12 months of selling. Then we raise a seed on real revenue.
$500K on a convertible note. The job of this round is to prove that operators sign up and that their guests book and pay during the trip, then raise a seed round at a price set by that revenue.
$150K already committed
price set at the seed round by results
Wayloop is the app
that runs the whole trip.
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One product, four very different clients.
The same Wayloop app, configured for each business. Drag through each client's trip to see their app at every stage, and the secondary revenue it opens.
Unleashed
Graduation and schoolies trips, planned two years out and run from one branded app.
Live on iOS & AndroidUnleashed: a trip that recruits itself.
Schoolies with a two-year lead-in. Drag the trip below: the app rebuilds for each stage, the marker walks the resort, on-site experiences surface, and the secondary revenue updates live.
GG Army
1,000 fans travelling together to the 2026 World Cup, kept moving as one army.
Live on iOS & AndroidGG Army: 1,000 Aussies on a World Cup match day.
From the hotel to the final whistle. Drag the day below: the app rebuilds for each stage, the marker walks the city route, match-day add-ons surface, and the secondary revenue updates live.
Fine Touring
Luxury independent touring across New Zealand, every detail arranged in one app.
Live on iOS & AndroidFine Touring: a tailored South Island tour, in one app.
Queenstown to Aoraki, beautifully arranged. Drag the trip below: the app rebuilds for each stage, the car drives the route, premium openings surface, and the secondary revenue updates live.
Jucy
Open-ended backpacker campervan hire, Sydney to Cairns, monetised the whole way up the coast.
Live on iOS & AndroidJucy: a five-week run up the coast, in one app.
Sydney to Cairns over five weeks. Drag the trip below: the app rebuilds for each stage, the van drives the route, backpacker stops surface along the way, and the secondary revenue it opens updates live.