Pre-seed · 2026

The product layer between an LLM plan and a memory you’ll keep.

Kiuro is a mobile-first travel app that turns any pasted plan into a working day-by-day, the day’s photos into a finished post, and the whole trip into an archive that holds up over time.

Stage
Pre-seed
Status
Closed beta
Beachhead
South Asia
Founded
Q2 2026
The opportunity

A market moving fast, underserved at the top.

Outbound travel from aspiring-affluent South Asia is up roughly 4× since 2019. The toolset they use today (ChatGPT, Wanderlog, Google Maps, Notion, Instagram) was built for someone else. Kiuro is built for them.

TAM · global
$1.4T
Global outbound travel spend, 2026.
SAM · South Asia outbound
$48B
SAARC outbound leisure travel by 2028.
SOM · target persona
12M
Aspiring-affluent travellers, 28–45, IG-fluent.
CAGR · target segment
19%
Annual growth, segment-specific, ’23–’28.
Why now

The problem, and our angle.

Today’s traveller stitches a trip across five tools and then posts nothing for two months, because phone-based photo editing is painful. Kiuro replaces the five tools with one mobile surface, and shrinks photo-to-post from an hour to ninety seconds.

What they live with today

  • ChatGPT plans live in a chat thread that can’t be edited
  • Wanderlog is utility-coded and looks like a project tracker
  • Google Maps lists are unreadable a week after the trip
  • Posting takes hours of editing in Lightroom + Snapseed
  • Memories die in 50,000-photo camera rolls

What Kiuro does about it

  • Paste any plan. Working trip in 60 seconds.
  • Day-by-day surface that looks like Hinge, not Asana.
  • Five caption voices · a sixth one trained on your IG.
  • One-tap export to IG / Threads / Apple Photos.
  • An archive that’s still readable in 10 years.
Where we are

Roadmap, honestly stated.

Q2 2026
Brand & product spec locked
Brand identity v5 shipped · PRD frozen · founder-owned design system live.
Q3 2026
Closed-beta build
Mobile PWA · planner + photo-to-post + memory archive · invite-only with ~150 beta households.
Q4 2026
Open beta + pre-seed close
Public waitlist conversion · paid tier launch · target $750K SAFE for 18-month runway.
Q1–Q2 2027
South Asia scale
South Asia core + Gulf diaspora · 25K paying users · seed round.
2028
Global expansion · SEA + LATAM
Replicate the playbook in Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Mexico, Brazil.
The team

Built by a founder who travels.

RT

Rangan T.

Founder · CEO · Designer-coder

Engineer-designer with ten-plus years building product. Founded Anirar360 (consultancy) and Studio Imagine (creative studio). Currently working through 22 countries in 33 days as user #1 on Eurolap ’26, the trip Kiuro was built around.

“This is the product I wanted in my own pocket, so I’m building it. The market that needs it most is the one I came from.”

The ask

$750K SAFE.
18-month runway.

For partners who see the angle (premium consumer travel, Instagram-fluent aspiring-affluent, mobile-first PWA) and want to be early. Closed-room conversation only.

$750K
Pre-seed · SAFE · MFN