Investor overview
Investor's corner
A fair-commission, curated OTA built for independent hotels and price sensitive travelers. Delaware-registered LLC.
Problem
The OTA industry is structurally misaligned. Hotels face high margins and pay-for-play visibility, while travelers filter through cluttered, overpriced inventory.
Solution
Lolaelo is a curated OTA with fair commissions that improves hotel profitability and delivers lower prices through direct inventory and standardized, high-quality content.
- Direct (not aggregated) inventory for cleaner economics
- Fair commissions (5%–15%) to increase partner adoption and conversion
- Consistent, media-verified content for better UX and faster purchase decisions
Market (Philippines)
TAM 2026
$13.7B
Projected PH travel and tourism market size.
SAM 2026
$5.5B
Hotel + tour bookings (estimated ~40% of TAM).
SOM 2026
$4.6M
Conservative initial capture of 0.08% of SAM.
Competitive edge
Differentiation
- Fair, transparent, sustainable economics
- Curated, standardized, media-verified inventory
- Direct supply + control over content
- Lean, low-overhead, scalable operations
Revenue model
- Core commissions: 5%–15%
- High-margin ancillaries: ~5%
- Hospitality optimization: 5%–10%
- Future rails: inventory + payments + traveler membership
Key numbers
2026 (early stage)
Commission tier: 5% • Partners: 50+ • Projected gross profit: $228k (based on 100 booked nights/day).
2027 (ramp)
Commission tier: 10% • Partners: 90+ • Projected gross profit: $2.3m (based on 500 booked nights/day).
These figures are not predictions. They illustrate the scale potential of a fair-commission model as partner count and booking volume increase.
| Metric | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross booking value | $4.56M | $22.82M | $91.27M | $456.36M | $1.14B |
| Commission revenue | $0.23M | $2.28M | $9.13M | $68.45M | $171.13M |
| Expenditures | $0.30M | $1.36M | $3.57M | $14.50M | $47.00M |
| Net profit | ($0.07M) | $0.92M | $5.56M | $53.95M | $124.13M |
| Avg booked nights/day | 100 | 500 | 2,000 | 10,000 | 25,000 |
Traction and roadmap
Traction
- Active hotel conversations in select locations
- 4 Siargao hotels committed for MVP
- Extranet live (demo-ready): rooms, photos, pricing, availability
- Public catalog working
- MVP end-to-end booking flow target: Week 1, 2026
Roadmap
- 2Q 2026: MVP live, first 25 partners onboarded, brand launch, core destinations live
- 4Q 2026: grow to 50–100 partners, finalize add-on features, release partner tools + dashboard, mobile app live
- Q3 2027: scale to 300–500 partners, targeted marketing, build customer service + ops
- Q1 2028: expand to full travel marketplace, SEA expansion
Funding ask
We are raising $600k in pre-seed funding to complete development, launch the MVP, and scale hotel acquisition across 6 pilot destinations in the Philippines and beyond, targeting 18–24 months of runway.
Instrument
- Round: Pre-seed
- Amount: $600,000
- SAFE (post-money)
- $10M valuation cap
- 15% discount
Use of funds
- Product & engineering: $165,000
- Hotel partnerships: $160,000
- Marketing & growth: $145,000
- Ops, admin, legal, misc.: $130,000
Manny
Founder, Lolaelo