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Telgani | Rent a car
Telgani is a Riyadh-based digital car-rental marketplace that lets people in Saudi Arabia book a vehicle from their phone and have it delivered to their door - or waiting at the airport - in about an hour. Founded in 2018, the platform aggregates 75+ rental brands and tens of thousands of cars into a single app, offering daily, monthly and yearly plans plus flexible subscriptions. Backed by strategic investors including Toyota distributor Hala Auto and Elm Company, Telgani has raised more than $9 million to modernize a fragmented car-rental sector across the Kingdom.
Dustin Downing
Dustin Downing is the CEO of Key Data, a short-term and vacation rental analytics company that turns property management system data into real-time market intelligence across hundreds of global markets. He stepped into the role in mid-2026 after joining as president, succeeding co-founder Jason Sprenkle. Downing spent nearly two decades in product leadership across travel and data-driven technology, including nearly a decade at Sabre, a stint at influencer commerce firm LTK, and six years scaling OrderMyGear. His focus at Key Data is deepening the company's proprietary dataset and building the AI-driven intelligence layer he believes the rental industry will run on.
Humphrey Bowles
Humphrey Bowles is the founder and CEO of Truvi (formerly Superhog), a London-based risk management platform for the short-term rental industry. After entering the home-sharing sector in 2011, he identified trust, insurance and safety as the biggest barriers to the growth of peer-to-peer accommodation, and built a group of companies - Guardhog and Superhog/Truvi - to close that gap. Truvi provides guest screening, identity verification, damage protection and deposit services to property managers and hosts, and raised a £5.5m Series A in 2026 led by 6 Degrees Capital and Hambro Perks to expand into the US.
Summer
Summer is a New York proptech company that builds SummerOS, asset-management software for short-term rental operators. After starting as an asset-heavy 'own a vacation home without the risk' model, the Airbnb-alumni team pivoted to SaaS, crunching market data and a property's own performance to tell operators exactly what to fix, raise, or rethink. It aims to bring professional-grade, data-driven tools - long standard in commercial real estate - to the fragmented $125B short-term rental market.
Paul Kromidas
Paul Kromidas is the founder and CEO of Summer, a New York short-term rental technology company behind SummerOS, which he pitches as the asset-intelligence platform for vacation-rental owners and operators. A former Airbnb product and strategy lead who helped build Airbnb Luxe, he started Summer in 2021 to make high-performance vacation-rental ownership accessible, then pivoted the business toward SaaS software that forecasts rental revenue and optimizes property performance.
Anyplace
Anyplace is a San Francisco-based housing platform that rents fully furnished, work-ready apartments for stays of 30 days or longer. Built for remote workers, relocating professionals, and corporate teams, every unit ships with a dedicated workspace, fast Wi-Fi, and a no-lease, move-in-ready setup in cities like New York, LA, San Francisco, Miami, and Tokyo.