TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

I can do better than Airbnb,’ but that’s what Andreas King-Geovanis did with Roami. The company added a $14 million of equity and venture debt, bringing its funding to a total of $29 million. The company used to be called Sextant Stays, and focuses on short-term rentals with apartment-style units.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Last year, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said that the single-biggest challenge for the company was thinking like a startup, despite Airbnb’s tremendous growth over the last decade. Since, Airbnb has put out hundreds of new features. Today, that continues on with Airbnb latest feature update. Airbnb Categories.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Take stock of your current team: Which groups are underrepresented in your organization (eg, members of the LGBTQ+ community, disabled folks, Black individuals) and at what levels of the company (eg, junior-, mid- and senior-level)? Once that’s done, craft meaningful goals that are concrete and impactful.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

The company is announcing that it has closed, while in stealth, a Series A of $20 million, and an earlier seed round of $4.5 The seed, the company said, also had dozens of angel investors, with the list including Elad Gil of Color Genomics, Lenny Rachitsky of Airbnb and Cristina Cordova of Notion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Guesty , which has created property management software for hosts on short-term rental platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo, is announcing that it has raised $50 million in Series D funding. ” Guesty, a tech platform for property managers on Airbnb and other rental sites, raises $35M. This is what our investors believe in.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But interestingly, they were now beginning to ask for short-term rentals as well, you know, basically the Airbnbs of the world. But while platforms like Airbnb have fantastically aggregated demand to meet supply in the U.S. Frankly speaking, finding a good Airbnb in these markets is like pulling a needle out of a haystack.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

TechCrunch has tracked a select handful of earnings reports from major technology companies in the current Q4 2021 reporting cycle. The picture that emerges is one of companies boosted by the pandemic coming back to Earth, while companies that faced a drop in demand due to COVID-19 are on the bounce. But hear me out.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Commerce is as old as humanity, and yet innovation in how to build better and more efficient companies not only continues, but is accelerating. In general, the heavier the model, the more control the company has over the customer experience. He leads investments in B2C and B2B startups with a focus on marketplaces, SaaS, and logistics.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Imagine staying at an Airbnb and becoming so attached to a particular chair or tea set that you want to buy it. The company was founded by Marc Hostovsky and Shobhit Khandelwal, who worked together at Jet.com before the e-commerce marketplace was acquired by Walmart in 2016. Then it’s delivered to your home in a few days.

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OkDork

AUGUST 24, 2023

In Part 1 , Mark Jenney talked all about growing up homeless, dropping out of high school, and how he started 30-plus companies and sold over a BILLION dollars worth of products online. Now, we’re diving into Mark’s life TODAY — creating luxury Airbnb properties and how he keeps these one-of-a-kind places completely booked up year-round!

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

This new funding round will allow the company to solidify its leading position in the healthcare marketplace space while accelerating HDcare, HD’s new innovative elective surgery product. Partech Partners, M Venture Partners, AC Ventures, iSeed, and Orvel Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Why would a remote worker who wants to try living in another city not just rent a place on Airbnb? People really worked all day from their rooms while staying in hotels or Airbnb,” Naito said. Last May, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told Yahoo Finance that 24% of Airbnb stays were 28 days or more — compared to 14% just two years prior.

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Jason Calacanis

DECEMBER 10, 2023

“If only I had started a company during the desktop PC revolution in the 80s and 90s!” ” “If only I had started a company at the start of the internet!” ” “If only I had started an app or cloud company during the ZIRP run up from 2009 to 2021!” we started companies with $1.5m

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 17, 2021

Today, we’re announcing our partnership with Preset.io, a company providing the visualization layer for the modern data stack. Preset provides a managed service of Apache Superset, an open source business intelligence software which Maxime Beauchemin started in at Airbnb. In addition, Preset.io

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 18, 2023

Venture capital (VC) is a type of financing that provides funding to early-stage companies with high growth potential. These companies may have already developed a prototype or have a minimum viable product (MVP) but need additional funding to scale their business. Y Combinator :(seed stage?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

I recently attended a presentation by a company that produces innovative, nutrient-rich olives and peppers. If you do your homework, you’ll eliminate financial projections guesswork, show prospective investors how they stand to gain from investing in your company, and put yourself in the best possible position to achieve your goals.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

That’s a question all companies — from startups to major corporations — are asking as they consider how to distribute and manage their workforces in 2022 and beyond. . Airbnb, for example, chose a live anywhere, work anywhere policy, while Twitter has gone hybrid. What does the future of work look like in a (quasi) post-pandemic world?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

New companies, products, and markets appear faster than we can say the word “change”. I’m a co-founder of a company in the ultra-competitive online education market, with more than 2.5 I’m a co-founder of a company in the ultra-competitive online education market, with more than 2.5 Airbnb was the Samwer brothers’ next target.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

There will likely be a recession in 2023, and the major downsides to starting a startup are obvious: There is less money in the system so selling and fundraising are harder; investors have less money to invest and companies have less money to spend on products. Cost-sensitive customers can be helpful in the early days of your company.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The story of my company, White Spider, began when I rented out the guest bedroom of my San Francisco apartment. I initially did it to make some quick cash to buy a used bike, but that weekend turned into many, and the bedroom became a mainstay on Airbnb. As a company, this has been one of our winning strategies since day one.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

Investors are excited about TravelPerk’s hyper-growth business travel management platform that is unleashing the full monetization potential of SMB and mid-tier companies in Europe and the U.S. The all-in-one platform gives business travelers more freedom while giving their companies the necessary control.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In the new era of remote and hybrid working, companies need to manage people who either relocate to join, or work remotely. The then used the funding and revenues from the consumer business to scale up the new company. The company will use the new funding to grow its teams in the US, UK, Armenia, and India.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And there is no higher profile of how successful that model can be than Airbnb. So it’s no surprise that one of Airbnb’s most prominent investors, GGV Capital, is now backing another startup with a similar model. Now the company is looking to expand beyond pools to outdoor spaces in general.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

You save for months to be able to go on a fun holiday, and then you spend nine days stuck in your Airbnb hoping the little umbrella on your drink will help against the rain falling from the heavens. The company would not confirm if it would pay out if the sun shines when you do prefer being caught in the rain.).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

The San Francisco company historically has connected renters to landlords for long-term leases, with short-term rentals only being a very small portion of its business. Goodwater, Greycroft and other unnamed investors also participated in the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to nearly $180 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Layoffs at companies like Toast, Airbnb, TripActions and others were symbolic of how some still-private companies found their markets effectively shuttered overnight. Both Airbnb and Toast recovered and went public ; TripActions evolved into a more general corporate spend service.).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Just two and a half months after emerging from stealth , weight care management startup Found announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $600 million. Allen Mask, partner at WestCap and formerly of Sonos and Airbnb, is joining Found’s board as part of the financing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

DoorDash, Affirm , Roblox , Airbnb , C3.ai Tech companies that go public capture our imagination because they are literal happy endings. Gaming company Roblox filed to go public yesterday afternoon, so Alex Wilhelm brought out a scalpel and dissected its S-1. 5 questions from Airbnb’s IPO filing. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

This week was an exception though, as it was exitpalooza as Affirm , Roblox , Airbnb , and Wish all filed to go public. But let’s take a more panoramic perspective of the returns of these five companies as a whole. First, Airbnb — by far — has the best return profile for its founders. First, let’s take a look at the founders.

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OkDork

AUGUST 24, 2023

In Part 1 , Mark Jenney talked all about growing up homeless, dropping out of high school, and how he started 30-plus companies and sold over a BILLION dollars worth of products online. Now, we’re diving into Mark’s life TODAY — creating luxury Airbnb properties and how he keeps these one-of-a-kind places completely booked up year-round!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This week both DoorDash and Airbnb reported earnings for the first time as public companies, marking their real graduation into the ranks of the exited unicorns. Takeaway: Big companies are anticipating a return to pre-COVID behavior, just not quite yet. And then there’s Airbnb, which is up around 16% today. What a mix.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 12, 2023

With a keynote from Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator and successful startup founder, and talks from YC founders on their own journeys, you'll gain valuable insights into what it takes to build and grow a successful company. YC has funded over 4,000 startups, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Twitch, Reddit, DoorDash, and Coinbase.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

At the same time, the distractions of daily life can easily impinge on the “deep work” many need to get done when working on something important, like writing a book, or launching a company for instance. In practice, you will find the Airbnb’s Wi-Fi is terrible and it’s outside a building site.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Founder Tommy Dang started the company at the end of 2020 after working together to build internal low-code tools at Airbnb. He saw most of the companies funded recently were heavy infrastructure, and facilitated large jobs for data scientists and machine learning engineers. million in seed funding led by Gradient Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A pair of Airbnb alums have teamed up to build a software business aimed at dramatically simplifying that process, or being, in their words, a “concierge for procurement.” Notably, the San Francisco company was founded in 2020, so it has achieved this unicorn valuation in about 18 months (this deal actually closed earlier in 2022).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Meanwhile, big global brands and companies who need product managers to grow their businesses can’t sit around waiting for people to graduate. Product School provides certificates for individuals as well as team training, and says it has experienced an upwelling of business since COVID switched so many companies into digital ones.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Brett Lovelady is the founder of Astro Studios , now a part of PA Consulting, a design-driven company that empowers designers and strives to capture the value of design in the product, brand, experience and company creation process. Contributor. Share on Twitter. IP identification and development. Advisory expertise for investors.

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