Cornell Podcast: Ushering high tech into the hospitality industry

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Harman Singh Narula ‘09, co-founder and CEO of Canary Technologies, a hotel technology company. Canary provides a host of guest-facing operations technologies to thousands of hotels across the globe. They provide everything from mobile check-In to digital tipping.

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Harman Singh Narula ‘09, co-founder and CEO of Canary Technologies, a hotel technology company. Canary provides a host of guest-facing operations technologies to thousands of hotels across the globe. They provide everything from mobile check-In to digital tipping.

Narula is a graduate of the hotel school and has been an entrepreneur-in-residence there. He also advises a number of technology companies in Silicon Valley.

The Startup Cornell podcast features interviews with Cornell entrepreneurs, who tell their stories of successes and failures and offer actionable advice for building and growing a business.

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The Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration is the premier school for hospitality education in the world. As an integral part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, the school is leading the world in teaching and researching the business of hospitality—marketing, finance, real estate, operations, and more, all applied to the world’s largest and most exciting industry.

Canary Technologies is modernizing the hotel tech stack with its award-winning agentic AI platform for hotel and guest management. Digitizing guest touchpoints from discovery to post-stay, Canary manages tens of millions of guest and staff interactions end-to-end autonomously each year, improving operational efficiency, increasing revenue and elevating the guest experience.