Bystreet

Bystreet is a business-to-business data and SaaS company serving the hospitality sector. It compiles structured records on hotel properties and the people who own and control them, including ownership entities, decision-maker names and verified phone and email contact details, plus attributes such as brand affiliation, room count and property class. The company's site states coverage of more than 300,000 hotels globally and 175,000 owner contacts, with claimed data coverage and accuracy above 70%.

The product has two principal uses. The first is lead generation: users search the database of independent hotels and their ownership details to source conversion or management deals. The second is project discovery: Bystreet tracks new construction, renovations and brand conversions, with contacts for the developers, owners, contractors and purchasing teams behind each project, and states that this project data is updated weekly.

Bystreet's launch focused on the Caribbean and Latin America (CALA), where it described hotel data as fragmented and property ownership as often opaque. The company says it uses AI agents to extract and verify data from thousands of public, government and offline sources in order to build a structured identity graph of hotel properties, owners and decision-makers across the region.

Founding story

Bystreet was founded in 2024 by Charlie Maki (Founder/CEO), Corey Anderson and Cameron Hake. Per the company's Y Combinator launch, the founders studied computer science and economics at Harvard and UW–Madison, and their prior experience includes hedge fund stints, sales roles at Datasite and Box, and building surveillance systems for the U.S. government. Maki is described as Harvard CS '23 and previously a founding engineer who helped scale a startup to $1M ARR and 10,000 paid users; Hake studied computer science and data science at UW–Madison and previously worked on sonar systems for the Navy. The team previously launched Gowatch, an AI monitoring platform for businesses.

Business model

Bystreet sells access to a proprietary hotel ownership and contact database on a business-to-business basis, positioning itself as a SaaS/data product for hospitality dealmakers. Prospective customers are onboarded through a demo request or a booked call with the founders rather than self-service signup.

Bystreet monetizes access to its hotel ownership, contact and project database, sold to hospitality companies; specific pricing or contract structures are not disclosed in available sources.

Traction

Y Combinator lists Bystreet as active with a team of four and cites customers including Marriott International, Choice Hotels, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Hotel Equities. Coverage grew from 16,000+ Caribbean and Latin American hotels at launch to a stated 300,000+ hotels globally and 175,000 owner contacts, with claimed data coverage and accuracy of over 70%.

Latest developments

Bystreet's Y Combinator profile lists the company as active with four employees and names Marriott International, Choice Hotels, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Hotel Equities among its customers. Its website states it is backed by Y Combinator and Script Capital and now advertises coverage of 300,000+ hotels and 175,000 owner contacts, expanded from the 16,000+ CALA properties cited at launch.