Our vision
Every independent hotel able to answer every guest, at any hour, as well as its best person would — and keep the booking instead of paying for it.
About Yalu
Built inside a hotel, by people who run hotels.
Yalu started at one villa estate beside Yala National Park, where the enquiries that mattered most arrived while everyone was asleep. Here's who built it, and where it's going.
Our mission
We build AI assistants for independent hotels that are honest by construction: prices calculated, not guessed; nothing sent without a person behind it; and a personality the property writes itself. We start with the guest conversation and carry it through the whole operation — the booking, the villa, the follow-up and the trade partner who sends the next guest.
Only claim what's shipped
Our website, our roadmap and our assistants follow the same rule: say what's true today, and label everything else.
People keep the decisions that cost money
Discounts, confirmations and anything sent in a person's name stay with a person.
Built inside a real property
Every feature was built and proven at Kotiyagala Luxury Villas, beside Yala National Park, before anyone else was offered it.
The team
The people behind Yalu.
Hotel operators and engineers, building the assistant they wanted for their own properties.
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Shakun Bulathsinhala
Founder & seed investor
Shakun founded Yalu and put in its seed capital. With a background in social media marketing and a seat as director of several leading Sri Lankan hotel chains, Shakun knows from the inside what an unanswered enquiry costs a hotel.
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Nirosha Kodituwakku
Chief Technology Officer
Nirosha leads engineering and built the Yalu platform: the three assistants, Yalu, Kalu and Mithu; the dashboard and staff app; the PMS connection; and room allocation.
For investors
We're raising our seed round.
We're raising a seed round at a USD 10 million valuation, with USD 500K already raised. Yalu is live in production at a paying property, with three assistants and a full hotel operations platform behind them. If you invest in hospitality, travel or applied AI, we'd like to talk.
- Round
- Seed
- Valuation
- USD 10M
- Already raised
- USD 500K
See it answer a question about your hotel.
Thirty minutes. We'll load a little of your own content in first, so you're watching it handle your property — not a demo script.