ANDREW LAWSON

Andrew Lawson is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of ProhostAI, an artificial intelligence property management platform based in New York. Founded in 2024, the startup participated in the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch and secured $2.6 million in funding from investors including Pear VC. Before launching his current venture, Lawson spent over six years as a Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox, where he developed API platforms processing millions of requests per second, following an earlier engineering role at JWPlayer. He brings direct industry experience to his technical leadership, personally managing nine short-term rental properties valued at $15 million that generate $1.5 million in annual rental revenue. His current focus centers on leveraging his nine years of scalable infrastructure expertise to build B2B SaaS solutions that automate guest communications and daily operations for hospitality entrepreneurs.