CuddlyNest raises $3.5m in funding
US: Short-term rental marketplace CuddlyNest has announced that it has raised $3.5 million in funding to drive the expansion of its strategic growth initiatives and product features, and scale its engineering and product teams. The startup previously raised $6 million during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic last October. To date, it has raised over $14 million in […]
Airbnb partners with Holaluz for green energy pilot programme
Spain: Airbnb has partnered with Barcelona-based renewable electricity and gas company, Holaluz, for a pilot programme designed to boost the adoption of green energy among platform hosts in Spain, and therefore make travel more sustainable. The programme includes special rates and meetings with the Airbnb host community to encourage the use of cleaner energy and […]
Borrow a Boat £750k crowdfunding campaign goes live
UK: Boat rental and yacht charter marketplace, Borrow a Boat, has gone live with its £750,000 crowdfunding campaign on investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, as it aims to go public via a potential, world-first initial public offering [IPO]. Dubbed the ‘Airbnb of boats’, Borrow a Boat has already received £488,648 of its target from 404 investors, […]
Airbnb Twitter guest complaints outlined in scathing report
US: A new report, funded by ASIS International and John Jay College, has revealed the focus of scathing complaints from guests who stayed at an Airbnb between 2015 and 2020 by analysing their Twitter user data. Asher and Lyric Fergusson, two travel bloggers and data researchers who have previously produced reports including analysing the most […]
NUMA Group expands to Italy
Milan / Berlin: Short-term rental technology provider and driver of the “commercial living” asset class, NUMA Group [formerly COSI Group], has announced its expansion into Milan and Berlin. With its international expansion to Italy, NUMA is continuing on its growth path in Europe. Earlier this year, the German company launched in Spain and acquired local property […]