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Kayak co-leads Life House’s $60M Series C to ‘reimagine’ the hotel experience

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Life House , a boutique hotel brand that has built software aimed at helping independent hotel owners and operators, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding co-led by new investors Kayak and Inovia Capital. Rami Zeidan started Life House after nearly a decade of working in different areas of the hotel industry.

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Accacia tackles the real estate industry’s massive carbon emissions problem

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It is also used by consulting firms that are serving real estate and infrastructure companies that have set net-zero goals. Another client, a listed hotel company with more than 100 assets, used Accacia to reduce its Scope 3 emissions through the platform’s vendor recommendation engine. A B Capital.

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Opendoor alums raise $7.75M for Kindred, a home-swapping network it says makes travel ‘dramatically more affordable’

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Or you could run your home like a hotel and put it on Airbnb to finance your travel. Palefsky and Amina claim that a 7-day stay in a home – or condo or apartment – using Kindred is “dramatically more affordable than a vacation rental or hotel.”. Kindred can bring to market net new home inventory in the vacation rental market,” he said.

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Central Reservation System for Hotels: CRS Functionality and Software Explained

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Today, the share of walk-ins in the hotel industry keeps reducing annually. At the time of global digitalization, 75 percent of all hotel bookings are made online. Among that, 40 percent of the reservations are made via Booking.com, 32 percent — via other aggregators, and 21 percent — through a hotel’s website.

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Daily Crunch: Kanye West reaches agreement to acquire social media platform Parler

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Mo money mo climate : Top climate tech deals net nearly $4 billion in Q3, outpacing other industries, Tim reports. 2023 VC predictions: Finding an exit from the ‘messy middle’ Three more from the TC+ team: Making Alex sad : Alex reflects that maybe we didn’t deserve any IPOs this year. You can sign up here.

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Hotel Revenue Management: Solutions, Best Practices, Revenue Manager’s Role

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A hotel jam-packed with people isn’t always a profitable hotel. Hotels employ various revenue management techniques and strategies aimed at increasing the bottom line. Compared to airlines, revenue management in hotels evolves slowly. What is hotel revenue management? Dynamic pricing strategies for hotels.

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Daily Crunch: Amazon’s new Bedrock cloud service lets developers incorporate generative AI

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is helping companies track and expand net revenue retention. Hotel, but fancier : Romain reports that Thynk wants to upgrade hotel stays with a vertical software platform aimed at hospitality. Track the revenue : Ron reports how Reef.ai You otter give it a try : Otterize raises $11.5