U.K. startup onefinestay — which has attracted backing to the tune of $15.9 million — has patented a keyless entry system to make it easier for homeowners to manage comings and goings. It’s clearly hoping to remove a few more barriers to potential home hosts signing up — not to mention offering them a bit of a carrot in the form of some cutting edge digital convenience. → Read More
If you owned a swanky apartment or house, would you really want to rent it out to strangers? Well, startup onefinestay seems to have found an audience for its upscale twist of the Airbnb model, which it describes as running an “unhotel.”
The company says there are now more than 1,000 members in London and New York listing their homes exclusively through its service. The service launched in… → Read More
London-based ‘unhotel’ startup, onefinestay, has bagged a West Coast exec as its CTO, convincing him and his family to relocate all the way from the Valley to rainy old London. Jackson Hull, the CTO in question, has clocked up 15 years’ tech industry experience. Most recently he was leading the engineering and product teams at San Francisco-headquartered Plum District. → Read More
Onefinestay, the ‘unhotel’ service that lets travelers stay in someone’s real home while the owner is out of town, has raised $3.7 million in Series A led by Index Ventures.
PROfounders Capital also participated, along with Brent Hoberman, co-founder of Lastminute.com; Andy Phillipps, co-founder of Active Hotels; Jonathan Eilian, a founding investor in Starwood Hotels; and David Magliano… → Read More
Calling itself an ‘unhotel’, Onefinestay, which launches first in London, lets travelers stay in someone’s real home while the owner is out of town. For guests, it’s being pitched as a better value alternative to a premium or boutique hotel with the attraction being that they can “live like a local” (or so the marketing goes), while for house owners the service is a way to generate “hassle-free… → Read More
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