Two founders.
One road. Raising to ship it.
Byway is a two-person team. Below: who we are, how we got here, and how to back us before we launch Byway in Q4 2026.
Small team. Shipping hard.
Sergey
Sergey has already shipped a travel app at Byway’s scale. As lead mobile engineer on EF Go Ahead Tours, he re-platformed the app now serving 1M+ travelers across 80+ countries on 200+ guided tours— 4.8★ on the App Store with 19K+ reviews. He’s currently Director, Artificial Intelligence & Innovationin an enterprise R&D org, leading AI strategy and enterprise-wide adoption across R&D — defining the playbooks, reference architectures, and governance frameworks engineering teams use to deploy AI across the SDLC inside a GxP-regulated environment. On the side, he runs an autonomous AI trading agent live on prediction markets.
Margarita
Margarita is a Senior Software Engineer at a major US consumer-tech company, and an AI Guild lead, driving applied-AI practices across engineering. She builds React + TypeScript UI systems at scale and pairs them with the AI automation chops Byway runs on.
Three seats open.
AI travel tech advisor
Ideal: operator from a scaled consumer travel product.
Actively recruiting
Voice / audio-tech advisor
Ideal: TTS or voice-first consumer product leader.
Actively recruiting
Consumer geo / mapping advisor
Ideal: mapping or location-tech executive.
Actively recruiting
If this is you, or you know who we should talk to, reach out at contact@byway.llc.
Four reasons this is timely.
Three product categories, one app.
AI routing, real-time narration, and a creator marketplace — in a segment that's never had all three stitched together.
Defensible data, not hype.
Verified POIs, preference vectors, and community signals compound with every trip. The moat grows on usage, not ads.
Multi-sided monetization.
Subscription + marketplace commission + sponsored stops + voice packs + API licensing. Five plausible revenue streams at launch.
IP protected, early.
Five USPTO trademark classes filed. Madrid (EU) filing in 042. UK + EUIPO planned. Brand is safe before it ships.
$940B travel-experience market. 1.2B road-trippers a year.
70% of travelers prefer “authentic, off-the-beaten-path” experiences. Digital audio + travel content is already a $60B segment. Byway sits in the middle of all three — and nothing else does.
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Why now
Three forces converging in 2026 — and what it means for scenic travel tech.
Open →Market
TAM, SAM, SOM. And the category wedge nobody else holds.
Open →Revenue model
Five revenue streams and the narrative behind each one.
Open →Roadmap
v1 to v2, milestone by milestone.
Open →Traction
USPTO, AWS Activate, waitlist, prototype. What's real today.
Open →Moat
Why this is hard to copy. Data, marketplace, companion, IP.
Open →FAQ
The six questions every seed VC asks. Pre-answered.
Open →Risk factors
The plain-English, material risks of investing in an early-stage company.
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