SnapTravel announced today an $8M USD Series A round led by iNovia Capital. SnapTravel allows users to find and book the perfect hotel room over SMS and Facebook Messenger.

Financing was provided by iNovia Capital as well as Lightbank, Bee Partners, and Hedgewood.

What is Snap Travel?

SnapTravel gives you access to great hotel deals over SMS and Facebook Messenger. No app to download. Send a message, book a room. We use a combination of machine learning and natural language processing to surface the best hotel recommendations at the best price. We are enabling commerce via messaging – the most natural environment on mobile.

SnapTravel CEO Hussein Fazal said:

“We are still in the early days of conversational commerce. But the trend is growing. Users want to chat with businesses, conduct commerce, and get things done within messaging apps – where they already spend most of their time.”

View booking video demo here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ySC_o4y67k