WhyHotel, an alternative lodging service that operates 100-room pop-up hotels in newly built luxury apartment buildings acquired $3.94 million in a seed funding round led by Camber Creek, with participation from Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Mendacre, MetaProp, Vornado/Charles E. Smith (predecessor to
Life House, the first Silicon Valley-backed lifestyle hotel company, secured $40 million in funding to accelerate the development of its lifestyle boutique hotel product and proprietary technology platform. It plans to use this technology to drive direct bookings, optimize operations, and foster a social community
OTA Insight, a hotel and property revenue management technology provider, completed $20 million in financing, led by Eight Roads. F-Prime Capital also participated. According to the company, users of its platform can access future and historic rates for their company and competitors, track where they
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Fintech travel product Spent allows users to earn up to 25% cashback on hotel bookings by simply searching from millions of hotels to find their desired room and the hotel’s associated cashback rate. The cashback is posted to users’ SPENT profile 30 days after checkout,
Hospitality technology startup Groupize completed $3.3 million in Series A financing led by Thayer Ventures, with participation from Golden Seeds, Launchpad Venture Group, Ace Investments, Wayfare Ventures, and NTX Venture Fund. Groupize has developed technology for the hotel industry to take control of their online group