Digital hospitality platform Velocity announced this week that, following its $16 million Series A last year, the company raised $22.5 million led by DIG Investments.
The residence is advertised as "PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CHILDHOOD HOME - SLEEPS 20" on the hospitality platform, and while you might be able to cram that many people inside, the place wasn't built for it.
That includes short-term rental startups, travel and tourism apps, marketplaces for "experiences" and other travel or hospitality tech platforms.
It started in the ancient Silk Road city of Isfahan when I accepted an offer from Alireza, a 24-year-old auto parts dealer who had contacted me through couchsurfing.org, a social media platform for hospitality exchange.
Today, the company's platform provides hospitality-focused mobile solutions; an integrated suite of publishing, marketing, messaging and advertising applications for delivering new revenue sources.
Thanks to sharing economy Airbnb disrupted the hospitality industry, e-commerce platforms did the same to international trade, while BlaBlaCar enables you to find travel companions and to share fuel costs on any journey across Europe.
"This is not about hospitality; it's a global platform for our technology".
Netflix and an Enseo, the makers of an in-room entertainment platform for the hospitality industry, today announced an expanded agreement that will see the Netflix app offered in more hotel rooms around the world.
"For hospitality operators, our new Flyt platform aims to make it significantly easier to innovate around digital commerce, both in terms of integrating technologies across the customer journey… into their own apps, as well as connecting into the biggest aggregator apps and other platforms, such as messaging, voice commerce and who-knows-what's-next," Flypay founder and CEO Tom Weaver tells me.
Since its founding in January of 2015, Bruin's portfolio of companies has grown to include more than 1,100 employees across twenty-four offines ininene countries, and spans three powerful core platforms – Experiences & Hospitality, Marketing Services and Sports Media & Technology.
Rysto Their pitch: Rysto is the first social platform for the restaurant and hospitality labor market.
