Domicile raises $5M for business travel lodging from high-profile Seattle investors Seattle startup Domicile raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by L.A. investment firm CrossCut Ventures. Big names… Read More
Stay Alfred raises $15M to expand lodging business that rents apartments like hotels Stay Alfred, a Spokane, Wash. lodging startup that operates short-term rentals out of the downtown neighborhoods of major U.S. cities,… Read More
Airbnb partners with the City of Seattle to provide lodging during emergencies and natural disasters Last year, when The New Yorker exposed the havoc an overdue Cascadia earthquake could wreak on the Northwest, I was immediately… Read More
Seattle woman sues HomeAway for racial discrimination after agent allegedly refuses to book ‘her kind’ Yvette Hobzek, a Seattle-area real estate broker, filed suit against vacation rental company HomeAway on Monday, alleging racial discrimination. Hobzek, a… Read More
Airbnb’s answer to #AirbnbWhileBlack: New anti-discrimination rules and ‘Open Door’ policy Airbnb is finally responding to months of discrimination complaints from people of color. Over the past year, users have been sharing… Read More
Stay Alfred: The biggest short-term rental startup you’ve never heard of is on track for $25M in revenue this year Over the past decade, the lodging industry has split into two rival camps — hotels and short-term rentals — thanks… Read More
