Dallas startup Traxo launched in beta

I first met Andy Chen and Andres Fabris of Traxo last year when they came to pitch at HP Growth Partners.  They weren’t looking for enough money to fit into a typical VC fund, so they ended up raising angel funding.  

Honestly I didn’t really see the value of yet another social network, this time linked to travel.  I  mean Tripit has been a feature of Linkedin for a while now.  I used it once, it was a pain in the rear and yielded nada results.  So I pretty much forgot about it.  So when I first heard of what Andy and Andres were doing, I wasn’t that excited (sorry guys!).  They both have a lot of experience in travel though, so I was fairly sure they knew what they were doing.  

Fast forward to June of this year.  I was going to New York, Boulder and Austin within a two week time span.  Andres and I were talking about my trips and he said that he would send me a Traxo private beta invite.  I accepted and entered a few travel sight logins to see what would happen (it works a lot like mint.com).  Immediately my New York and Boulder (Denver) trips showed up.  Still haven’t entered Southwest info, so Austin didn’t show up.

Turns out that Andres was in NYC the same weekend as me so we ended up meeting for lunch in midtown.  My friend and I tried to meet him and his wife at a club the next night, but unfortunately the club hopping feature isn’t available yet.

Anyway, check it out and find me as a friend so we can hang out next time we’re in the same city.

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