Investor Presentation · September 2026
LINX
Where your experience is your asset.
Stein Retzlaff · Founder
The Problem
Luxury travel has no marketing department.
Luxury operators focus on logistics and operations. Content, marketing, social, itineraries, pre-trip planning go to contractors. Distribution goes to travel agents.
- A production company: $50,000 for one week in the field
- Travel agents: 15 to 25% of every booking
- The past guest who caused the booking is never paid a percentage
LINX turns every trip into marketing the guests share, and proves every booking it drives.
Production rates founder-attested · agent rates, verified trade band
We buy the archive by creating the film.
The film is the marketing department, delivered: every one ships as a tracked link, and a booking through it pays us 10%.
The film is the distribution. Every one ships as a tracked link, and a booking through it pays us 10%.
The Growth Engine
Your past guests send your next ones.
The memory is how both sides join. The film recruits the operator; the share recruits the next traveler.
Ice Axe
Expeditions
Antarctic Peninsula · 2026
A Memory, for the Hansens
Thirteen days at the bottom of the world.
Crafted by LINX
- Trip ends, memory arrives
- Under the operator’s brand
Ice Axe
The memory ends.
The next trip begins.
Antarctic Peninsula Ski Cruise · $50,000 per guest
- Booking lives inside it
Ice Axe Expeditions
A Memory, for the Hansens
Share this memory
Every recipient sees the trip, the operator, and the way to book it.
“You have to see this. Best trip of our lives.”
The Hansens · to 12 friends
Shared with 12 friends
Attribution follows every share
- The guest shares it
- Their trust sells the trip
Stein Retzlaff
3 CONTINENTS · 5 COUNTRIES
My Story
+ ADD
KENYA · 2026
NORWAY · 2026- Add it to your world
- Share your world
One operator publicly credits our content with selling out two years of Antarctica departures.
Product illustration. The one booking LINX has attributed end to end to date is on the traction slide.
The concierge
AI that only recommends what is real.
It only suggests trips someone on the record actually took: real guests, their films, proven bookings.
Chatbots guess. LINX vouches.
Our business model
A subscription for the engine. 10% of what it proves.
The operator keeps the guest, the brand, and 90% of every booking.
The operator pays LINX a monthly subscription. LINX turns every trip into films under the operator’s brand. The past guest shares a film with a friend. The friend books the trip and pays the operator direct. The operator pays LINX ten percent of that booking, only because the record proves LINX caused it.
Studio
$1,000a month
White Label
$5,000a month
Enterprise
By arrangement
Amounts: LINX’s first attributed booking, July 12, 2026.
Traction
Eleven days from MVP to first revenue. Three years to profitable.
Jul 1
MVP Live
Jul 12
First Revenue
$30,000 GMV · $3,000 commission billed
Now
Live Today
Operators hosting · Experiences bookable
Q4 2026
In the App Store
iOS and Android · 6 operators using LINX monthly
2027
Payments settle through LINX
AI concierge live(target)
2028
New markets
Five hundred transacting operators · $10K trips · New verticals: culinary, jets(target)
2029
Profitable
(target)
Founding Operators · six under contract
The Team · Reno, Nevada
Built by the leaders of the industry.
Ben Lyons
Advisor
CEO, EYOS Expeditions
Runs the leading expedition-yacht operator; the superyacht beachhead opens through him.
Doug Stoup
Advisor
CEO, Ice Axe Expeditions
Sixty-plus polar expeditions; the polar operator network follows him.
Roy Kim
Technical Advisor
Early engineer at Expedia, principal at SoFi
He has scaled travel platforms before.
Jay Patry
Advisor
Founder and owner, Patry Group
Builds and owns hospitality assets; the traveler this platform serves.
Erich Roepke
Advisor
Emmy-winning filmmaker, National Geographic
The taste bar for every memory the platform ships.
Stein Retzlaff· Founder
Ten years inside the industry this platform digitizes.
Ani Palaskar
Founding Product Engineer, San Francisco.
This round hires
Backend and Mobile Engineer. Scales the platform and ships the apps.
Product Manager. Owns the roadmap and the member experience.
Director of Operations / Chief of Staff. Owns operator relationships at scale.
The loop is proven with the founder as the engine.
This round makes it work without him.
The Ask
$600K
Tranche one of a $1.8M, 18-month pre-seed.
Pre-seed SAFE · $12.5M post-money cap · 20% discount · converts at the priced round.
Minimum allocation $50,000.
What the round has to produce
Now
Mobile beta
Founder-led through the 127
Q4 2026
iOS + Android launch
6 operators using LINX every month · memories and shares, reported
Q1 2027
Payments through LINX
150 members transacting
Q2 2027
AI concierge v1
Recommends only what the record verifies
Use of Funds
Product · 40% · The three hires and the platform.
Acquisition · 30% · Operator onboarding and member growth.
Operations · 20% · Lean operations, priced to the milestones.
Reserve · 10% · Optionality. Nothing earmarked.
Product, 40 percent. The three hires and the platform.