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Merging Airbnb and the traditional hotel model, Mexico City’s Casai raises $23 million to grow in Latin America

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With travel and tourism rising across Latin America, Casai , a startup combining Airbnb single unit rentals with hotel room amenities, has raised $23 million to expand its business across Latin America. “I wanted to define a product from a consumer angle,” said Barawid. “I wanted this to exist.”

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Three-dimensional search engine Physna wants to be the Google of the physical world

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” From its launch in 2015 through 2019, Powers worked with co-founder and chief technology officer Glenn Warner Jr. “When I moved, I jumped on a plane with two checked bags and moved into a hotel, until I could rent a fully furnished home,” DeMeyere told Protocol last year.

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Ometria raises $40M C round to automate CRM for retailers

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It’s also now hired a number of key new staff: Chief Technology Office Markus Plattner (former CTO of Sizmek by Amazon), Chief Revenue Office Paul Barnes (former MD of App Annie) and Chief Marketing Officer Michelle Schroeder (formerly of Simon Data and Tinyclues).

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Backed by YC, Vendease is building Amazon Prime for restaurants in Africa

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Some months later they saw a hotel manager openly complain to a vendor about the unsteady supply of produce the hotel was getting. Aliyu, the chief product officer (CPO), also held a similar role at another Lagos and San Francisco-based, YC-backed startup, 54gene. It sparked an idea in the founders’ minds.

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Appboxo gets $1.1 million seed to build a mini-app ecosystem for all developers

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Examples of how host apps have used mini-apps include travel apps that added hotel, restaurant and activities bookings; and mobile wallets that integrated insurance-buying and e-commerce services.

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Kenya’s HotelOnline acquires hospitality software company HotelPlus

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Muliro has also been appointed as HotelOnline’s chief technology officer. HotelOnline helps hotels to establish and increase their visibility online to tap a wider clientele base. million in shares in HotelOnline, which was valued at $24 million before the deal.

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Alima aims to build out Latin America’s perishable foods supply chain

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He explained that restaurants, hotels and catering companies typically have to go to crowded markets, negotiate with several vendors, verify the quality of the products and arrange for transportation — often having to drive hours to pick it up themselves. Alima , a Mexico-based supply chain startup, raised $1.5