13 New #startups selected by Welcome City Labs #paris

Welcome City Labs, a premier network of incubators and accelerators dedicated to hospitality and tourism, announced the selection of 13 new #startups for participation.

Using ITB Berlin worldwide tradeshow to present the winners, Welcome City Labs selected from 120 candidates.

Infographic visually expresses the range of candidates submitted:

Welcome City Labs Paris Accelerator 2017 Candidates

Winning startups will gain the support of Welcome City Lab’s ecosystem designed to nurture each concept to a successful business.

List of selected startups – congratulations to all!

Blue Valet, Busjets, ClapnClip, CoChange, Fokusmap, Mon beau terroir, Intripid, Nannybag,       Student Pop, The bar corner, Tictactrip, Tracktl, Visitdata.

Full details (in French) Welcome City Labs Press Release.

Hospitality-Next will publish reviews of these innovative hospitality startups.

IAdvize - Innovative Conversational Commerce Platform

iAdvize is the leading real-time customer engagement platform in Europe and is used in 40 different countries. Today, 9 different nationalities work within the team.

#startup review by Sasha Chupick

A conversational commerce platform that creates contact points throughout the website by predicting customer behavior, a chatbot and a possibility to put potential customers in touch with savvy enthusiasts for live chat

Industry: Retail & Hospitality

• Hotels can benefit through tailored, personalized experience for potential guests, through automated and real chat.

« Predict and engage the best contact opportunities with authentic experts 24/7 and convert them into business value. »

Innovation: uses customer browsing behavior to send them useful information and takes advantage of brand ambassadors & influencers expertise to advise guests

• Depending on what the customer clicks or does with their shopping basket, various predefined messages pop up in order to assist them through the process
• A chatbot that responds to predefined questions
• Ibbü: uses brand ambassador’s expertise (with financial compensation) for live chat with customers when they need authentic advice – available 24/7

A view of conversational commerce by iAdvize

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