About Us

Powering Family Travel

Our Mission

Octa is a friendly travel chatbot that helps you and your family plan epic travel experiences in hundreds of cities around the world. Just tell Octa where you're going and she'll provide you with attractions, events, restaurants, fun facts, tips from cool kids, and much much more!

FOUNDER

ZARA KHANNA

Zara Khanna is the Founder of Octa, the only chatbot that helps find cool things to do and epic places to visit for kids when travelling. Zara loves to travel and code, and thinks that the world is a happier and more fun place when kids travel and learn about each other. Zara has visited more than 50 countries with her family and published "Zara's Travels: From Scotland to Singapore", an interactive memoir about crossing Eurasia on the world's longest train journey. Learn more about Zara on her personal website.

Featured in the media

“Octa … helps fellow children find fun things to do whenever they travel. Currently, it holds data for over 200 cities, offering recommendations on attractions, local events and playgrounds suitable for kids of all ages.”

Web in Travel

“The chatbot doesn’t spit out your typical, canned travel info either. Rather, Octa shares what kids have found interesting in different places. The goal is for children to help other children to have fun, engaging vacations.”

Expat Living

“Octa is very easy to use and users simply have to type in the city they want to go to and discover family-friendly attractions, play areas and events. Octa is your insider on things that matter to kids.”

Travel Daily

“The only travel chatbot that helps kids and parents find cool things to do and epic places to visit when travelling ...now working on putting it on Facebook and translating it into Mandarin. “

PATA

“Octa is the only travel chatbot that helps kids and parents find cool things to do and epic places to visit when travelling...the world is a happier and more fun place when kids travel and learn about each other.”

SKIFT

"OCTA - a very useful application for organizing family trips...The aim is to suggest to people how best to spend their holidays, exploiting and enjoying every emotion together with their parents and children."

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ADVISOR

KAROLI HINDRIKS

Karoli Hindriks is the amazing Founder of Jobbatical, a platform that connects companies with people who want to live and work in different countries. She and Zara (Octa’s Founder) share the belief that people should travel, be connected and the world shouldn’t have borders. Zara feels super lucky to have Karoli as her mentor.