--- title: Instinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on... description: Instinct founder Noah Shinn revealed in a podcast interview that over half of transactions on the invite-only AI agent platform are travel-related, with the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/instinct-founder-said-more-than-50-of-transactions-on-the-platform-are-travel-related-d8coq1ngm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Instinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related | daily.dev og:description: Instinct founder Noah Shinn revealed in a podcast interview that over half of transactions on the invite-only AI agent platform are travel-related, with the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/instinct-founder-said-more-than-50-of-transactions-on-the-platform-are-travel-related-d8coq1ngm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/d8cOq1nGm.png og:image:alt: Instinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Instinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Instinct founder Noah Shinn revealed in a podcast interview that over half of transactions on the invite-only AI agent platform are travel-related, with the company approaching a billion dollars in annual transaction volume and growing 10% day-over-day. Shinn also discussed plans to reinvent restaurant reservations using agents that could monitor availability and prioritize special occasions, a comment that drew criticism from observers who noted agents could fabricate occasions to game the system. The company recently raised $1 billion in Series C funding at a $10 billion valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue, and competes with Meta's Muse and Khosla-backed Wajo. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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