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Germany’s Home Startup Lands $12M To Expand Housing Rental App
Germany’s Home Startup Lands $12M To Expand Housing Rental App
January 22, 2020  |  Real Estate

Berlin-based Home, a tenant and landlord mutual engagement company, has raised €11million in a Series A round of funding from Capnamic, EQT Ventures, FJ Labs,...

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Using Digital Tech And Payments To Solve The Affordable Housing Crisis
Using Digital Tech And Payments To Solve The Affordable Housing Crisis
January 16, 2020  |  Merchant Innovation

Access to affordable housing is hard to find in the U.S. According to research from Harvard University, in 2016, nearly half of renters were cost-burdened...

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Creating Rent The Runway For Jewelry Lovers
Creating Rent The Runway For Jewelry Lovers
December 09, 2019  |  Retail

’Tis the season for holiday gatherings, eating out and New Year’s Eve celebrations — occasions that often entail looking sharp, or at least attempting to...

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Leavy App Raises $14M To Help Millennials Raise Travel Funds
Leavy App Raises $14M To Help Millennials Raise Travel Funds
November 27, 2019  |  Investments

Paris-based startup Leavy.co, which offers a travel app to help millennials finance their travel plans, has raised $14 million. Leavy kept the Seed funding round...

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Bird Raising New Funding At $2.5 Billion Valuation
Bird Raising New Funding At $2.5 Billion Valuation
July 23, 2019  |  Ridesharing

The Santa Monica-based eScooter rental service Bird is being valued at $2.5 billion in a new funding round led by the venture capital firm Sequoia...

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Airbnb Rival Sonder Reaches Unicorn Status 
Airbnb Rival Sonder Reaches Unicorn Status 
July 11, 2019  |  Startups

Sonder, a rental startup, has reached a valuation of over $1 billion after its latest funding round, according to a report by TechCrunch. The company...

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GuestReady Gets $6M To Boost Sharing Economy Host Efforts
GuestReady Gets $6M To Boost Sharing Economy Host Efforts
June 18, 2019  |  Investments

GuestReady Group, a startup that helps hosts on Airbnb and other similar sites, revealed that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round was...

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Newly Funded Feather Brings Furniture Subscription To LA
Newly Funded Feather Brings Furniture Subscription To LA
May 16, 2019  |  Investments

Furniture subscription rental service Feather is using its latest round of funding to expand to Los Angeles. The company raised $12 million in a Series A...

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How Rent The Runway Hopes To Become The Amazon Prime Of Everything Rental
How Rent The Runway Hopes To Become The Amazon Prime Of Everything Rental
April 15, 2019  |  Retail

Children’s apparel is a big and growing market. As of 2018, according to Euromonitor research, the global children’s apparel industry is worth $203 billion — and...

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