Investor Presentation — May 2026
LINX
Where your experience is your asset.
Stein Retzlaff · Founder
The Founder
10+ Years Building the Network
HBO Ice on Fire — first expedition film in Arctic, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio
"How to Change the World with Social Media" — consultants for Sea Legacy / National Geographic
First yacht-based heli-skiing in Antarctica with EYOS
10 years building a production company around creating memories for people
Helps launch 14 new experiences on all seven continents in one year, including another world’s first
Winner of Hulu’s show "Got to Get Out"
Stein Studios has filmed more people skiing in Antarctica than anyone on the planet
LINX officially a C-Corp
Expeditions
Continents
Arctic & Antarctic Trips
Featured in
The Problem
The Friction of Discovery
Two channels. One gets paid.
Operators pay 15–30% on the 12.9% of bookings they can track. The other 87% — driven by past guests, athletes, and guides — earns nothing, runs on no system, and is currently very difficult to scale.
Travelers can't tell what's real
Trusted recommendations get buried under sponsored placements. Choice fatigue at $25K+ price points produces hesitation, not bookings.
The Opportunity
The global luxury travel market is worth $776 billion annually. 84% of high-ticket bookings are driven by personal referrals — yet only 12.9% of those referrals are ever tracked or rewarded.
84%
trust word of mouth
12.9%
actually captured
87.1%
unmeasured, unrewarded
untracked referral value in luxury travel
Annually. Globally. Unrewarded.
Sources: Grand View Research (Global Luxury Travel Market), McKinsey, RulerAnalytics 2024
The Solution
LINX is the trust infrastructure for luxury experiential travel.
A members-only community where every member is the verification — every recommendation comes from someone who has actually been.Operators run LINX to power their bookings and content engine via white-labeled LINX.For members, LINX is how you achieve your travel goals — world-class verified experiences, organized into collections, discovered through people you trust.
Discovery
Discover experiences through verified people
LINX
Chris Davenport
LINX Legend · Since 2026Pro skier · Ski Mountaineering Hall of Fame · Descents on all seven continents.
7
Continents
32
Countries
47
Followers
Discover a trusted traveler's world
Antarctic Peninsula · 2025
Skiing Antarctica
“More people have summited Everest than have skied in Antarctica. Best ski trip on the planet.”
Read this chapter →
Open a real, lived memory
Antarctic Peninsula · Ice Axe Expeditions
Antarctica Peninsula Ski Cruise
An award-winning trip to the remote wilderness of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Antarctic Peninsula · 13 days · Oct–Nov
Book the exact trip — through the person who lived it
The trip is complete
Antarctica Peninsula Ski Cruise · Ice Axe
10% commission on booking
$3,800
on the $38,000 booking
Chris is paid once the guest completes the trip.
The curator earns. Trust, rewarded.
Value Proposition
Value to Our Users
For Travelers
- Discover world-class experiences, verified by people who've actually been there.
- Achieve your travel goals — the best suggestions on what's next, and a community of travelers to share them with.
Powered by AI: real suggestions drawn from LINX's proprietary Trust Graph — and your memory book, built automatically.
For Operators
- Qualified guests, not cold leads.
- Your bookings and content engine — white-labeled to your brand.
- Empower your guests to become your sales team — with full visibility into every referral.
Powered by AI: verifies and scores every inquiry before it reaches you · runs content and attribution so referrals compound.
The Market
The Luxury Travel Market
Global Travel
$1.59T
Total Addressable Market
Experiential (>$500/day)
$58.9B
Serviceable Addressable Market
LINX Commission Pool
$6-9B
5-15% paid to intermediaries
Y3: ~150 Operators
$4.75M
Serviceable Obtainable Market
Source: Grand View Research, Knight Frank 2025, UBS Global Wealth Report 2024, Mordor Intelligence
Why Now
Trust Converts
Paid Channels
1-3%
conversion rate
Trust-Based Referral
9.5%
conversion rate
3x higher conversion rate
Source: Ruler Analytics, Travel Marketing Benchmark
Strategic Moats
Our First-Mover Advantage
Trust Graph
Referrals, bookings, and reviews compound into a proprietary trust network. No competitor can replicate the data.
Operator Lock-In
Operators white-label LINX to run their bookings and content engine. Their workflow lives inside LINX. Switching cost compounds with every booking, memory, and member tied to the platform.
Network Effects
More curators = more value for operators. More operators = more value for curators. Classic two-sided flywheel.
Memory Network Effects
More memories create a richer feed. A richer feed attracts more members. More members create more memories. The content flywheel compounds.
Social Graph Density
Degree-of-separation visibility creates switching costs. The experiential social network lives on LINX.
Traction
Three Founding Operators
All 7 continents · Desktop is live
M/Y Solace · Yacht Charter
Kenya · Safari Expedition
Antarctica · Ski Touring
The Team
Built by the leaders of the industry
Advisors
Ben Lyons
Advisor
CEO, EYOS Expeditions
Doug Stoup
Advisor
CEO, Ice Axe Expeditions
Roy Kim
Technical Advisor
Early Engineer at Expedia, Principal at SoFi
Core Team
Anirud Palaskar
Product Manager & Engineer
The Human Truth
“The most transformative trip of my life didn’t come from a search engine. It came from a friend.”
Kara Brenholt
“When you’ve skied the entire planet, people ask you where to go. Now there’s finally a way to make that count, and there’s infrastructure for attribution.”
Chris Davenport
Pro Skier, 2x World Champion
“The value in selling experiences comes from those who are sharing stories. There is no platform that captures that until now with LINX.”
Doug Stoup
CEO, Ice Axe Expeditions
Where your experience is your asset.
LINX
The Trust Network for Luxury Travel
Stein Retzlaff
Founder, LINX
530-386-5371