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Vendease gets $3.2M to help hotels and restaurants buy food supplies in Africa

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Vendease has moved 100,000 metric tonnes of food, Kara added. .” Kara says the company hopes to 10x this number in the next 12 to 18 months. Proactively , in our small way, we are helping to grow the GDP for the food businesses both on the farmers and vendor side of the marketplace,” he continued.

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ResortPass, backed by Jessica Alba and Gwyneth Paltrow, lands $26M so you can take a daycation

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Have you ever looked longingly at the website of a posh hotel or resort and thought, “Man, I wish I could hang out there.”. The six-year-old company gives people the option to purchase day passes to more than 900 hotels and resorts — think Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, W Hotels, Hyatt Hotels, Fairmont and Westin — around the world.

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

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How do you define a metric that gives you other similar three-dimensional objects. “When I first met [Physna founder] Paul Powers, he had already come up with a wildly novel distance metric to compare different three-dimensional objects. If you have one distance metric, you can find other objects that are a distance away.

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RevPAR, Occupancy Rate, ADR, and Other Hotel Metrics: How to Evaluate Your Property’s Performance

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In other words, a certain number of metrics and KPIs has to be set up, monitored, and analyzed to be turned into valuable insights. So, the aim of this article is to describe the main KPIs typically adopted by hotels to support their business analysis. Occupancy rate, ADR, and ALOS: basic operational metrics. Occupancy rate.

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Hotel Data Management: Solutions and Practices to Turn Information into a Valuable Asset

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Hotel business produces a plethora of data literally every moment. Let’s take a closer look at major data management processes — data collecting, storing, and analyzing — as applied to the hotel domain. Hotel data collection: what and where to look for. Important hotel data sets and overlaps between them.

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Sugar raises $2.5M in seed funding to connect apartment residents

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Today, the startup has clients globally, including residential communities of varying sizes, real estate investment groups, Airbnb rentals, hotels and other types of residential properties. The platform has since grown beyond a pandemic-related use case. Sugar’s product has two components.

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Vendease, a food procurement platform for African restaurants, nabs $30M led by Partech Africa and TLcom

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to help hotels and restaurants buy food supplies in Africa. According to the company, most customers, including restaurants and food businesses, hospitals, hotels and schools, are subject to $100 billion in annual losses due to several factors. Vendease gets $3.2M

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