Cendra raises $1M Seed Round

Cendra, the AI-powered property operations platform, today announced it has raised a $1M seed funding round led by Revo Capital, with follow-on participation from Heartfelt Capital and participation from Türkiye Development Fund and APY Ventures, to help hospitality operators scale their business and revenue without scaling overhead. At the core of Cendra's platform are prebuilt, domain-trained autonomous AI agents designed to plan, decide, and execute day-to-day operational work across hospitality portfolios.

Co-founded by Can Koseoglu, Mumin Sahin, and Ali Ozaltin alongside founding engineers Aybuke Hamide Ak and Efe Genc — Cendra is building what it calls the "Invisible GM" — an AI operations layer built around prebuilt autonomous agents that run day-to-day hospitality operations — orchestrating workflows across the guest and property lifecycle while escalating only true exceptions to humans.

Before building Cendra, CEO Can Koseoglu lived the problem first-hand as an operator — running day-to-day short-term rental operations across multiple properties. The work was relentlessly hands-on: coordinating housekeeping and maintenance, managing vendor performance, handling guest escalations, enforcing SOPs, and maintaining owner reporting — while stitching workflows together across WhatsApp threads, inboxes, spreadsheets, and disconnected systems.

Cendra addresses this by embedding autonomous, domain-trained agents inside structured workflows, allowing routine work to be planned, executed, and followed up automatically — while workflows provide the guardrails for consistency, safety, and auditability.

"I built as an operator first — and it's hard to explain how operational this job really is until you live it. Your day becomes a chain of micro-decisions. A guest message turns into a cleaner re-route, a maintenance call, a vendor follow-up, an owner update, an SOP check — and it all lives across WhatsApp threads, inboxes, spreadsheets, and people's heads. That system breaks the moment you try to scale. Cendra is the Invisible GM that embeds those decisions into prebuilt autonomous agents, running operations end-to-end so teams can add properties and improve margins without adding chaos."

"Cendra stands at the intersection of two massive trends — automation and experiential hospitality. What makes this team special is their common understanding of operator pain points and their ability to translate that into a truly autonomous, context-aware system. We believe Cendra has the potential to become the defining automation layer for the global short-term rental and hospitality ecosystem."

The funding will accelerate the rollout of agent-run automation, expand integrations across the property operations stack, and scale deployments with multi-property operators across key hospitality markets.

Alongside the new funding, Cendra is accelerating its workflow-first roadmap to extend the Invisible GM across the full property operations lifecycle — spanning physical operations, field execution, smart home responses, inspections, exception handling, and guest communication. This includes AI-powered cleaning and inspection workflows, deeper smart home integrations, and a review layer interface built around an operational timeline. Throughout 2026, Cendra plans to connect these capabilities into end-to-end, agent-driven automation across entire portfolios.

About Cendra

Cendra is a next-generation automation platform for short-term rental and hospitality operators, built to run property operations with the precision of an "Invisible GM." Powered by proprietary prebuilt Agentic AI, Cendra runs hospitality operations end-to-end — coordinating tasks, enforcing standards, handling exceptions, responding to guests when needed, and unlocking revenue opportunities — all within a clear, auditable operational framework. Headquartered in Delaware, with core product and R&D in Türkiye — and operations and sales in London — Cendra is redefining modern hospitality operations at scale.

About Revo Capital

Founded in 2013, Revo Capital is Türkiye's pioneering and largest early-stage technology venture capital fund. Having raised $250 million across three funds, Revo has invested in 50 startups and achieved 18 successful exits to date.