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Bystreet: hotel ownership intelligence
Bystreet maps hotel ownership and decision-makers so hospitality firms can find qualified relationships across a global property market.
Cofounder of Lazyweb (a16z Speedrun). Previously grew subscriptions and built native ads at Duolingo. Writes First1000 (90,000+ subscribers).
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What it does
Bystreet is a hotel ownership and decision-maker intelligence platform. It maps properties, beneficial owners and key contacts so hospitality firms can find the people behind hotels rather than rely on generic property lists or local research. The YC profile describes coverage of more than 16,000 hotels in its earlier launch and 300,000+ globally; the current homepage presents the broader ownership database.
The fit is a hotel brand, supplier, operator, broker or capital allocator that needs a qualified hospitality target list. Bystreet’s value depends on entity resolution and freshness: the right owner attached to the right property is more important than a large record count.
Why I’d look closer
The product is practical for a sales or expansion team. The current site shows a property record with hotel classification, beneficial owner and contact information; the YC launch says its agents combine public, government and offline sources into an identity graph. The directory lists hospitality customers including Marriott International, Choice Hotels, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Hotel Equities; those are company-reported customer claims.
The founder context fits a data product. The YC biographies describe Charlie Maki with Harvard computer science and a prior startup scaled to $1M ARR and 10,000 paid users, Corey Anderson as a co-founder/CEO, and Cameron Hake with CS/data-science and Navy sonar experience.
What I’d ask
How is ownership verified and refreshed, how are beneficial-owner and contact fields sourced, and what geography is strongest today? I’d sample one market against public records and a sales team’s known accounts, then measure match rate, freshness, opt-out handling and downstream meeting quality. Pricing was not exposed in the sources checked.
My editorial take
Bystreet is a good fit for hospitality teams where ownership opacity is the main sales bottleneck. The identity-graph framing is stronger than a generic hotel database. The proof is freshness and decision-maker accuracy at the buyer’s target geography.
Quick facts
| Field | Sourced detail |
|---|---|
| Buyer fit | Hotel brands, hospitality suppliers/operators and capital allocators |
| Product | Hotel ownership, property and decision-maker intelligence |
| Coverage signal | Company describes 300,000+ hotels globally |
| Public pricing | Not exposed in the sources checked |
Sources checked
Checked 2026-09-19.
| Source | Used for |
|---|---|
| YC company profile | Product, founders, customers and launch context |
| Bystreet homepage | Current property/owner database surface |
Cohort context
Bystreet is listed in Winter 2025. In our 2026-09-18 directory snapshot, 104 of 165 listed companies in that cohort have YC’s primary industry label B2B (63.0%). This is a current-directory comparison, not an original intake count or a performance ranking. Nine-cohort dataset.
Public website snapshot
Observed 2026-09-19T16:19:27.386Z in raw homepage HTML. This records visible metadata and advertised links, not agent execution or product quality.
| Signal | Homepage observation |
|---|---|
| Product description metadata | Observed |
| Canonical link | Observed |
| H1 or H2 heading | Observed |
| Typed structured data | Not observed in this response |
| Docs/developer link | Not observed in this response |
| Pricing link | Not observed in this response |
| llms.txt link | Not observed in this response |
| Markdown alternate | Not observed in this response |
Public observations · Collection method. Missing links here do not establish that a capability or file is absent elsewhere.
About the author
Cofounder of Lazyweb (a16z Speedrun). Previously grew subscriptions and built native ads at Duolingo. Writes First1000 (90,000+ subscribers).
I cofound Lazyweb and publish Mudpie. This is an owner-written publication, not an independent testing organization. Research notes distinguish observations, sourced reporting and editorial judgment.
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